GLEANINGS, OR A SERIES OF TALES PRINCIPALLY FROM THE BEST MODERN WRITERS BY J. H. HEDLEY. I have song of war for knight, SIR WALTER SCOTT. LEIPSI C. PRINTED FOR JULIUS WUNDER. 1 8 3 6. At a time when the productions of the English press are so universally diffused and justly appreciated, any selection any selection may almost be considered as superfluous or unnecessary. There have been, however, during the last twenty or thirty years, so many choice and excellent fugitive pieces which the general Reader may not be acquainted with, that the Editor trusts, in presenting this Compilation of Tales from our best modern Novelists to the notice of the public, he will open another source of enjoyment to the Admirers of the English Language and Literature; perform an acceptable service to the Student, who may find it useful as a class book; and provide for those of his countrymen into whose hands it may fall during their travels in Germany, a work, which |