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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, Vol. 3 of 3
Seems to be proper that a new and notewor thy edition of the works of Washington Irving should be prefaced by a slight sketch of the author's life, and some estimate of his position as a man of letters. As the admirable Life and Letters, edited by his nephew, Mr. Pierre M. Irving, will form a part of this edition, it is unnecessary here to indulge in many biographical details; and in the space allotted to me I shall use them only to aid in the estimate that I Wish to make of the author. The twenty years that have elapsed since death do not at all represent the space that separates our age from his. We seem to have lived a century since the war of the rebellion came to shake and seat ter forever our fatuous dream of security and immunity. In two decades we have had the social and political transformation and growth of a hundred years. And in no aspect of our national life is the transition so marked.
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