PREFACE. 



THIS volume has no particular subject. Its contents 

 pretend to no connexion, no continuity : each of the 

 Papers must be read as perfectly isolated from all 

 the rest. Several of them, indeed, are pen-pictures 

 of associated scenes, and of kindred things that have 

 occurred in them. Others touch of Mndred things 

 that occur elsewhere. The whole may be likened is 

 a handful of sketches taken at random out of one 

 artist's portfolio. 



TORQUAY, December 1864. 



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