^* It has been suggested, that the title might be deemed ambitious; that it might indicate an expectation, that “this sixty years since in America” would take place with the “sixty years since” of the great Master. I have not yet forgotten the literature of my childhood—the fate of the ambitious frog. To those who know me, I need not plead “not guilty” to a charge of such insane vanity, and those who do not will believe me when I say, that the only moment when I could wish the benefactor of the universal reading public to be forgotten, is when my humble productions are under perusal.

* Lizzy Bengin actually received the pension.