WIT AND WISDOM

OF THE

REV. SYDNEY SMITH

BEING

SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS

AND PASSAGES OF HIS

LETTERS AND TABLE-TALK

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR AND NOTES

BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK

REDFIELD

34 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.

SAVAGE & MCCREA, STEREOTYPERS, 13 Chambers Street, N. Y.