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numerous. Where they are in excess, hardly anything 

 is safe. 



Acknowledgment was accidentally omitted from the 

 3rd Series of authorship of the photographs, five of which 

 were taken by Earl Percy, M.P., and the sixth by Sir 

 Hugh Shaw Stewart. Of those in the present volume, 

 the picture of Aln wick Castle in winter is by Mr. Robson 

 of Alnwick, and that of the Major Oak, Sherwood Forest, 

 by Mr. H. Seator, Stair Arms, Dalkeith ; the rest are 

 inexpert ' snaps ' of my own. 



The papers numbered xxi. and xli. originally appeared 

 in Blackwood's Magazine, to the proprietor of which 

 venerable periodical my thanks are due for permission 

 to reprint them. 



HERBERT MAXWELL. 



MONREITH, January 1907. 



