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draw their purest pleasures from those never- failing 

 sources. 



Of the papers which follow, Nos. II, X, XIX, XXVI, 

 and XXVII. have appeared already in Blackwood's 

 Magazine, and are republished by kind permission of 

 the proprietor of that venerable periodical. 



HERBERT MAXWELL. 



MONREITH, 1903. 



