NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S WORKS. THE SCARLET LETTER THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE. 2 vols. ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS. 2 vols. FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTE-BOOKS. 2 vols. THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE, and Other Pieces. TRUE STORIES FROM HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Illustrated. THE WONDER-BOOK. TANGLEWOOD TALES. Illustrated. Illustrated. "LITTLE CLASSIC" EDITION. Complete in 23 vols. 18mo, each containing a vignette illustration. Cloth, $1.25 a volume; the set, $28.75; half calf, or half morocco, $57.50; tree calf, $75.00. FIRESIDE EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes, 16mo, each containing two choice vignette illustrations. Sold only in sets. Cloth, $20.00; half calf, $40.00; tree calf, $50.00. ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes, 12mo, each containing two excellent illustrations. Cloth, $2.00 a volume; the set, $24.00; half calf, $48.00. GLOBE EDITION. Complete in 6 volumes, 16mo, each having 4 illustrations. in sets. Cloth, $10.00; half calf, $25.00. Sold only The Scarlet Letter. Illustrated by MARY HALLOCK FOOTE. 8vo, cloth, $5.00; morocco, or tree calf, $10.00. *For Sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston. HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1850. COPYRIGHT, 1878. BY ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP. All rights reserved. October 22, 1874. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. UCH to the author's surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom-House, and quenched its last smoking ember in the blood of a certain venerable personage, against whom he is supposed to cherish a peculiar malevolence. As the public disapprobation would weigh very heavily on him, were he conscious of deserving it, the author begs leave to say, that he has carefully read over the introductory pages, with a purpose to alter or expunge whatever might be found amiss, and to make the best reparation in his power for the atrocities of which he has been adjudged guilty. But it appears to him, that the only remarkable features of the sketch are its frank and genuine goodhumor, and the general accuracy with which he has conveyed his sincere impressions of the characters therein |