PREFACE. 



to my request to be permitted to make use in the 

 present volume of articles from my pen which have 

 already appeared in their columns. 



In conclusion, may I express the hope that there 

 may be found in the following pages sufficient of 

 interest to evoke from the reading public the same 

 indulgent reception for this, my second and more 

 ambitious volume, that they so readily accorded to 

 my first. 



RONALDSHAY. 



Av^ust 1904. 



