Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

THESE chapters, as being especially associated

with children, have been selected from my various books, for separate publication under the title appended to this volume. Although they necessarily lose interest and purpose when detached from their context and removed from their niches in the works of fiction to which they respectively belong, this compilation is made for American children with my free consent.

BOSTON, November, 1867.

CHARLES DICKENS.