TO VIMU AIMBOLIAD

Vice President Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, Corresponding
Member Rhode Island Historical Society, and Dedham

(Mass.) Historical Society.

No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would
read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root, and from whose
minds it grew, may by any means turn away in lofty literary scorn from the Almanack-
most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and
no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and Pariah of modern literature;
the supreme and only literary necessity even in households where the Bible and the
newspaper are still undesired or unattainable luxuries.-MOSES COIT TYLER.

CLEVELAND, OHIO,

1891.

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