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pencil. Know then, Maestro Eccellentissimo, that enclosed 

 is the letter, and if you will make it part of your Pilgrim's 

 Progress to carry it to Fairy-land, where No 111 abides, and 

 deliver it with speech of your own to him who should receive 

 it, you will render another kindness to your loving 



" GIORGIO VOLUSENO." 



Of the "Five Gateways," about eight thousand copies - 

 have been sold up to this time, besides an unauthorized 

 issue by a house in Philadelphia, of which we have no 

 return. It has been spoken of as " a hymn of the finest 

 utterance and fancy the white light of science diffracted 

 through the crystalline prism of his mind into the coloured 

 glories of the spectrum ; truth dressed in the iridescent 

 hues of the rainbow, and not the less but all the more 

 true." " He tries with that affectionate spirit, that love 

 of the good and the great, that reverential adoration of 

 God's wondrous works, which have made Dr. George Wil- 

 son's name a pleasant sound in the ears of all who know 

 him, to make his readers feel with himself an intense appre- 

 ciation of those blessings in which he revels, who knows 

 how to make his soul and his senses work in a wise har- 

 mony." We believe this book to have become one of the 

 great cords of love that knit the writer so closely to the 

 hearts of thousands. 



While he says, " My modesty is shocked by sending to so 

 many and so wise men my small rhapsody," he reports the 

 acknowledgments received as " of a threefold character,"- 



" i. Talleyravdish, i.e. have got the book, and expect 

 pleasure from reading it. 



" 2. Patronizing; will put a copy in the School Library. 



"3. (a.) Hearty, such as Dickens, Wilson, Ruskin, Canon 

 Wordsworth, Buxton, Argyll. 



