This is taken as the type, and in some respects as the basis, of the present publication,there being engrafted upon it new contributions from leading authors of this and other countries, together with such extensive improvements, revisals, rewritings, additions, and modifications throughout, as to constitute a substantially new work, exhibiting in combination the results of the best labors of the German, English, and American mind.

And then the little girls, peeping through the shutters, and holding their breath to see better, saw what they beheld every year; but it was always new and awesomemysterious scribbling in corners with lead-pencils on scraps of paper; consultations; rewritings; copyings; the list of their sins, of all the sins of their lives.