XVlll PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



of the vignettes are also spirited and characteristic ; the title- 

 page of the four seasons, and frontispiece, are very pleasing 

 compositions, and give still further evidences of his talent and 

 genius as an artist. 



With these few comments, we again send our volume forth 

 from the press, trusting, as before, far more to the well-known 

 generosity of the craft for its kind reception, than to any great merit 

 of its own, but at the same time bearing in mind the good old 

 Latin proverb, that — "Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere 

 studet." 



