This edition of _Olla Podrida_ does not include the "Diary on the Continent" which appeared first in the _Metropolitan Magazine_ 1835-1836 as "The Diary of a _Blase_" continued in the _New Monthly Magazine_ 1837, 1838, as "Confessions and opinions of Ralph the Restless." Marryat himself described the "Diary" as "very good magazine stuff," and it has no fitting place in an edition of his novels, from which the "Diary in America" is also excluded. The space thus created is occupied by "The Gipsy," "The Fairy's Wand," and "A Rencontre," which I have ventured to print here in spite the author's protest,[A] that the original edition of _Olla Podrida_ contained all the miscellaneous matter contri…
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