WASHINGTON IRVING'S

SKETCH-BOOK

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

BRANDER MATTHEWS, LL.D

PROFESSOR OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

COPYRIGHT, 1905

BY

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CC.

All rights reserved

Published by permission of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons,
publishers of the complete and authorized editions of the
Works of Washington Irving.

FIRST EDITION, December, 1905
REPRINTED, May, 1906, November, 1907, January, 1910
October, 1910, June, 1911, June, 1912, June, 1913
July, 1914, November, 1915 August, 1916, March 1917,
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December, 1922, January, 1924
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INTRODUCTION,

CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGICAL Table,

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION,

THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF,