Introduction. 
friends. This is assuredly no dry or 
abstruse study; it is a perpetual 
spring of the most genuine satisfac- 
tion. Even when cares and troubles 
assail the mind, and overshade all 
things with gloom (and no one is 
always exempted from such things) 
even then let us look at these beau- 
ties—let us contemplate them. Yes! 
we will “consider the Lilies how 
they grow ;” our Divine Saviour him- 
self commands us to do it, and never 
did He enjoin any thing which was 
not for our truest felicity. 
We have only to add, that our most 
esteemed and very particular friend, 
Mr. GEORGE Cooke, has devoted his 
talents (already so well known to the 
public) to this work. We are sure 
nothing more need be: said about its 
execution. 
