PREFACE. 



As " there is no new thing under the sun," and being conscioi 

 of my inability to do otherwise than feebly verify that fact, I ha~\ 

 ventured to adopt the following philosophic lines penned by L,ESS i NG '< 

 a preface to this somewhat necessarily fragmentary treatise : " Hvei 

 man has his own style, as he has his own nose, and it is neither poli 

 nor Christian to rally an honest man about his nose however singul; 

 it may be. How can I help it that my style is not different ? Th; 

 there is no affectation in it I am certain." 



San Francisco, June, 1893. 



