TOILERS IN THE SEA. 



sky above. Give yourself up to the sense of in- 

 finitude which is stealing over your mind, and soon 

 the tears you shed will have lost their bitterness ; 

 you will feel ere long that there is nothing in this 

 world which can so thoroughly alleviate the sorrows 

 of the heart as the contemplation of nature, and of 

 the sublime spectacle of creation, which leads us 

 back to God." 1 



Thousands of those who rush every year to the 

 sea shore, embued with no particular feeling but 

 that of enjoying themselves, in a manner of their 

 own selection, return with a lively sense of physical 

 benefit, and we would hope, in many cases, of in- 

 tellectual also. The latter class might be consider- 

 ably augmented, without any diminution in the 

 results attributed to the former, provided they could 

 be stimulated to the use of the observing eye. 

 This could be hardly accomplished better than by 

 indicating the direction in which the observing eye 

 should be turned, and if this be achieved this volume 

 will justify itself. 



No event of modern times has so greatly stimu- 

 lated the student of marine life as the publication 

 of the results of the " Challenger " expedition, and to 

 some extent this has reacted upon those who cannot 

 exactly be described as 'students, but only as lovers 



1 Quatrefages, "Rambles of a Naturalist," vol. i. p. 120. 



