PREFATORY NOTE 
THE prose essays in this volume were writ- 
ten, with hardly an exception, while the author 
was a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, 
and were published originally in the “ Atlantic 
Monthly” magazine. They were reprinted, in 
part, in a volume called “ Outdoor Papers,” and 
some of them in an illustrated volume entitled 
“In a Fair Country,” with illustrations by Miss 
Trene E. Jerome, and again in a volume called 
“The Procession of the Flowers, and Other 
Essays,” with a frontispiece by Mrs. Arthur B. 
Marsh. 
The poems, on the other hand, were written 
during a long series of years and in many differ- 
ent places. Most of them have been previously 
published, either in a volume called “The After- 
noon Landscape” or in one entitled “Such as 
They Are.” 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 5, 1900. 
