x PREFACE. 



social economy and travel, as well as in the lighter 

 paths of fiction), while the Eev. W. D. Johnstone, the 

 Eector of Milton, has published more than one treatise 

 upon the doctrines of the Church of England, and 

 Mr. W. F. Harvey, M.A., of the Inner Temple, has 

 lucidly illustrated the civil law in the domain of con- 

 tracts. But without enlarging the list, if we would 

 wish to discover local traces of the true mantle of 

 Pocock, the love of letters and pursuit of knowledge 

 amidst the apparently discordant calls of trade and 

 the harassing claims of the family, it would not be 

 necessary to travel far from the scene of his labours ; 

 indeed, within scarce a stone's throw of his house the 

 reader could this day enter the modest shop of Mr. 

 G. Newman, from whose published poems the following 

 pleasing lines are taken at hazard, and who conducts 

 his daily industry with an energy which might well 

 have interdicted all hope of any successful cultivation 

 of the muse : 



LTEIC. 



Written on the anniversary of the day on which the author's 

 (Mr. Newmans) brother left his native land. 



'Twas once my happiness to own 



A brother, kind and dear to me ; 

 Though years have now successive flown 



Since 'neath our old home's shelt'ring tree, 

 In boyhood, joyous, wild, and free, 



Like as the tendrils of the vine 

 Twine round each other, so did we 



Our joys and sorrows intertwine. 



