Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,

BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Cambridge:

Presswork by John Wilson & Son.

PREFACE.

THE first of these stories has never before been published. The others have had a circulation more or less limited in different journals.

"The Queen of California," as will be seen, is my translation, from the "Sergas of Esplandian," of every passage relating to the imagined island of "California." Since the first publication of that translation the principal public libraries of this country have obtained copies of that romance.

E. E. H.

November 30, 1872.