1871, April 20. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by PARRY & MCMILLAN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE CHARLES. PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS. ADVERTISEMENT. THE first edition of the " Art, Scenery," &c. in Europe, by the late H. B. Wallace, Esquire, has been for some time exhausted. The merits of that work, like the merits of Mr. Wallace's other literary productions, have been settled by the public voice; and the present publishers having received frequent orders for it, which they were unable to supply, the volume has now been stereotyped in this form. The letter upon M. Comte's Philosophy, which was in the first edition, has been omitted in this; and may perhaps be brought out hereafter, along with some other portions of Mr. Wallace's writings, to which it might be thought more properly to belong. In the place of that letter, there will be found a considerable number of papers upon different subjects; all of them more or less interesting, it is hoped, to the general reader. An account of most of them is given on page 293. These pieces are short, and so extremely different from each other in their character, that to some readers they may appear to have been now printed without sufficient reference to unity of thought or subject. It has been remarked, however, of Mr. Wallace, that there was hardly any thing worth thinking about that he did not think about and weigh; and as he indulged himself in writing, not for fame nor for reward, nor with any view to future publication by any one, but apparently only as a civil duty, or to perform the noble offices of humanity or friendship; or to realize more fully, and for his own satisfaction, the completeness and depth of those thoughts, and that consciousness with which ordinary life surrounded |