IN TROD UCTION 



month's suggestions and calendars, 

 so that you may conveniently write 

 down day by day, as often as you 

 please, a summary of what has come 

 before your eyes and mind, and thus 

 at the close of the year find your vol- 

 ume doubled — its roomy pages stored 

 with your own increase of facts, 

 impressions, musings, and sketches, 

 set in orderly array. 

 - , . .,,,// ,^ tn This may possess double worth. 



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It IS well known to book-lovers and 

 J' to the collectors of rare volumes that 



the value of an old book is en- 

 hanced in most cases when its mar- 

 gins show annotations by its owner ; 

 and that such books more often than 

 others are kept as precious heirlooms 

 or are lovingly placed in the security 

 of historical collections. What an 

 opportunity, then, to distinguish one's 

 self in the eyes of grateful grand- 

 children do these fair margins pre- 

 sent ! 



But such marginalia, however at- 

 tractive they may become in a back- 

 ward perspective, will have a present 

 and continuous worth and interest 

 to the maker. One might imagine 

 that a collection of these marginal 

 field -notes jotted down by neigh- 



Sg, fixcdldc dcddion of the Blhatgin 

 alia iblub. 



