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thanks are due to Mrs. Hamerton and to its 

 publishers, Messrs. Seeley & Co. My debt to 

 this and other books I have quoted will be 

 repaid, I hope, by my attracting readers to 

 them. Besides books there are pictures; and 

 beyond both literature and art there is Nature ; 

 and I hope it is not all too presumptuous for a 

 happy, if somewhat desultory, scholar in her 

 great school of life and beauty to chat for a 

 brief while about some of the things that, with 

 others' help, he has learned and learned to 

 enjoy there. 



J. E. P. 



Holmes Chapel, Cheshire 



