"To the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspi"inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings—the friend rer, and wife whose exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest inciand incitement, and whose approbation was my chief reward—I dedicate this tement, volume. Like all that I have written for many years, it belongs as much to her as to me; but the work as it stands has had, in a very insufficient degree, the inestimable advantage of her revision; some ...