Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: 1. 0. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. READER! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate FABLE FOR CRITICS; OR, BETTER, (I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike, an old-fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents) | A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES (Mrs. Malaprop’s word) who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. Set forth in October, the 31st day, |