PREFACE. xi 



High Life, Pretty Poll, The Greenwood Tree, On the 

 Wings of the Wind, Casters and Chesters, and Fish as 

 Fathers, all of which originally appeared in the Cornhill. 

 Messrs. Chatto & Windus have been equally kind as 

 regards the paper on An English Shire contributed to 

 the Gentleman's. A Persistent Nationality made its first 

 bow in the North American Review, and has still to be 

 introduced to an English audience. 



G. A. 



Hind Head, Surrey, 

 Oct., 1892. 



