Translator's Note 



At the moment of writing, the only one 

 of the following essays that has been pub- 

 lished before, in my translation, is the first 

 of the three describing the White-faced 

 Decticus, which appeared, in the summer of 

 last year, in the English Review. 



Miss Frances Rodwell has again lent me 

 the most valuable assistance in preparing this 

 volume ; and I am indebted also to Mr. 

 Osman Edwards and Mr. Stephen McKenna 

 for their graceful rhymed versions of the oc- 

 casional lyrics that adorn it. 



ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. 



CHELSEA, 1917. 



