"If authors must write, they had better compose
Their stories too marvellous almost for prose;

Add some incidents, too, which are strange above measure."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

Bath Guide.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

TO ALEXANDER SINCLAIR.

955

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v. 1

IN attempting to represent the happiness of a Protestant family circle, it is impossible for me not to think of that Brother whose inestimable friendship makes my home what it is; and in delineating the advantage bestowed on Protestants by their free access to the Bible, the pleasing recollection is ever before me, how long we have studied its pages daily together. Having been hitherto precluded from consulting the wishes of