FROM THE

HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE.

A Melange of Excerpta,

CURIOUS, HUMOROUS, AND INSTRUCTIVE.

COLLATED BY

C. C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.

"So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was
about an ephah of barley."-RUTH ii. 17.

"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my
own but the string that ties them."--MONTAIGNE.

PUBLIC LI

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

T. NEWTON KURTZ,

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

STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO.
PHILADELPHIA.

PRINTED BY SHERMAN & CO.

Prefatory.

I am not ignorant, ne unsure, that many there are, before whose sight this Book shall finde small grace, and lesse favour. So hard a thing it is to write or indite any matter, whatsoever it be, that should be able to sustaine and abide the variable judgement, and to obtaine or winne the constant lobe and allowance of every man, especially if it containe in it any novelty or unwonted strangenesse.-RAYNALD'S WOMAN'S BOOK.

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