In this edition it has been considered advisable to reproduce, verbatim, only the "Twenty-one Days" as originally published in _Vanity Fair_, the additional series of six included in several editions of the book issued after the Author's death being omitted. The twenty-one papers in question have been supplemented by contributions to _The Bombay Gazette_, which appeared in that daily newspaper during the whole of the year 1880, the year before the Author's death, under the _nom de plume_ of "Our Political Orphan;" and the Publishers beg to tender their best thanks to the proprietors of that newspaper for the permission thus generously accorded for their present reproduction.…
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