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BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORK OBSERVER.

THIS Volume has been prepared in response to a widespread demand for a new series of Irenæus Letters.

The selection has been made from Letters which were written since the publication of the former volume and embraces many of the choicest writings of Dr. Prime; some of them are more personal and autobiographical than any in the previous compilation and were chosen on that account.

A biographical sketch of Rev. S. Irenæus Prime, D.D., an account of his death and burial, together with the review of his life and character which was written by the Rev. Talbot W. Chambers, D.D,, all of which have been published in the New York Observer, are included in the book.

This has been done in order to gratify a large number of friends and subscribers to the New York Observer, who have expressed the wish to possess in a permanent form some record of one whom they had known and honored, and whose writings they had so much enjoyed.

The first series of Letters has had a large circulation, and there is abundant evidence that it has been a useful and interesting book. It is with the hope that this Second Series may be of equal value and interest, and that it may also be a fitting memorial of its author, that it is now offered to the public.

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