THE YOUNG ENTHUSIAST IN HUMBLE LIFE. A Simple Story. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. "No man will be found, in whose mind airy notions do not DR. JOHNSON. LONDON: JAMES FRASER, REGENT STREET. 1833. BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. THE following tale, though fictitious, is so much the growth of the author's circumstances in society, his mental idiosyncrasy, and personal feelings, that it could scarcely be trusted to public perusal, without such account of the writer's life and character, as would put the general reader in possession of the sentiments with which it should be approached, and the indulgence to which it may be entitled. But when, in addition to these considerations, the sympathy of benevolent natures is desirable, not only for the book but for the book-maker, it becomes all the more expedient, if not absolutely necessary, that the work should be preceded with at least a brief biographical narrative. It fortunately happens, that we are enabled to lay before the reader the precise B information which appears so requisite to the proper appreciation of this rightly named Simple Story, and which, from its very simplicity, might else fail of the attention that its merit, in respect of this self-same quality, would in a great measure justifiably demand. Having, for his own private satisfaction, extracted from the author of the "Young Enthusiast in Humble Life," certain facts relative to his life, and schemes, and hopes, the publisher has had it in his power to put into the hands of an editor documents every way available for this purpose, without making that specific application to the subject of our biography, which might have excited, as it will in the best, more of personal vanity than is either agreeable to the public, or beneficial to the individual. JAMES JOLLY was born at a small village about thirty-four miles from Liverpool, in which town his father subsequently commenced business as a butcher, having |