The Catholic Series. * For Prospectus indicating the character and purpose of the Catholic Series, and for List of Books already published, see Catalogue at the end of this work. TO PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, AND OTHERS. THE Publisher notifies that this Work is Copyright; and all persons are hereby cautioned against printing, or causing to be printed, the same. Proceedings in Equity will be instituted against all persons so offending after this notice. London, 121, Newgate Street, October 26, 1844. wwwwwww Second Series. BY R. W. EMERSON. "That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheer- NOTICE. HERE is a new volume of Essays by Emerson; concerning which I am to certify, that this English edition of them. seems to be correctly printed; that the English Publisher is one appointed by the Author himself, and is under contract with him as to the pecuniary results. To Emerson's readers in England I am to certify so much; leaving the inference from it to their own honourable and friendly thought. To unauthorized reprinters, and adventurous spirits inclined to do a little in the pirate line, it may be proper to recal the known fact, which should be very present to us all without recalling, that theft in any sort is abhorrent to the mind of man;—that theft is theft, under whatever meridian of longitude, in whatever nation,' foreign or domestic, the man stolen from may live; and whether there be any treadmill and gallows for his thief, or no apparatus of that kind! Such suggestion may perhaps have its weight with here and there an incipient adventurous spirit meditating somewhat in the picaroon or pirate line, and contribute to direct him into better courses: who knows? For other spirits, no longer open to such suggestions, the present Pub |