Letters From An American Farmer. PREFATORY NOTE. There are at least two good reasons why I should have the honor and pleasure of writing a short preface to this new edition of Letters from an Anrerican Farmer, which makes a tardy appearance one hundred and eleven years after Matthew Careys homely reprint of the first London edition. It was partly in consequence of some praise of mine that the present publishers made an ex- amination of the book and determined to try to give it a new lease of life it was also in consequence of my interest in the matter that Mr. Lewisohn undertook the task of editing the volume. That such a task should be undertaken has been very clear to me since I read an article by Professor Selden L. Whitcomb on Nature in Early American Literature, which was published in The Sewanee Review for February, I 894. Professor Whitcomb paid such a tribute to...