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pictorial side of the volume ; to abandon the 

 traditions regulating the proportions of prose to 

 pictures ; and make my appeal to the public by 

 the beauty and variety of the illustrations I have 

 collected, and the immensity of elaborate letter- 

 press which I have not written. 



A. F. C. 



" ROYSTON," 



HAMPSTEAD, N.W., 1904. 



