ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY

THIS little activity was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even as advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has ne er been able to learn. That any owner should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the author nor the public have any another concern than as several observation is necessary upon those parts of the activity which thirteen years have ready made relatively obsolete. The public are entreated to bear in mind that thirteen years have passed since it was finished, galore much since it was begun, and that during that period, places, man