NOTE 



The greater number of the sketches in this 

 book originally appeared in the Christimi En- 

 deavor World. Of the others two were contrib- 

 uted to the Atlantic Monthly and one to the 

 Boston Evening Transcript, All have been largely 

 revised, and some have received substantial ad- 

 ditions. B. T. 



Bradford Torrey died at Santa Barbara, Cali- 

 fornia, October 7, 191 2, two days before his sixty- 

 ninth birthday. He had sent this book to the 

 Publishers some weeks before, but had not had 

 an opportunity to read the proof. The manuscript 

 had been prepared, however, with that scrupulous 

 care which he always exercised in his literary 

 work, and there is no reason to suppose that he 

 would have made any important alterations, even 

 in detail, if he had lived to see it through the 

 press. 



The Publishers have sought to give the volume 

 something of a memorial character by providing 

 a portrait of the Author and illustrations from 

 photographs of localities treated in the book, in 

 two of which Mr. Torrey himself appears. 



