PEEFACE. 



Let cavillers remark, if they will do so, that 

 when any one writes in a tone of advice or 

 instruction, that he presumes on self-supposed 

 superiority of mind or talent; if any do so 

 think, they labour under the influence of very 

 material error. Such writer merely goes so 

 far as to believe that in some particular points 

 and pursuits, his experience in them may 

 have afforded him information that may be 

 useful to those who may not have had op- 

 portunity or inclination to devote as much 

 time to those pursuits as the writer may have 

 done ; and if the adage that " experience makes 

 fools wise," be at all a truthful one, it cannot 



