2 A PREFATORY HINT. 



I have always written according to the dictates of my 

 heart and conscience. Disregarding the rules (es- 

 pecially of poetry, of which I am perfectly ignorant, 

 of the rules, but I like the thing when it has common 

 sense, besides rhymes measured as with a rule, as 

 geographers do), but those of my own judgment being 

 a " Homo asper " .... I will not say any more but 

 that I am more or less like the rest of mankind. 



Yours, etc., 



L. MEN AND. 



