X CONTENTS. 



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LETTER X. • 

 What is Happiness ( — Recollections and Regrets — Universality of 

 Death — Who are madi and who sane f 68 



LETTER XI. 

 Upon my Back 72 



LETTER XII. 

 Colours ; 79 



LETTER XIII. 

 On my Pace 86 



LETTER XIV. 

 TheViolet— Ants— The Power of Love— Miracles 93 



LETTER XV. 

 The Tulips, and their Story 102 



LETTER XVI. 



Quasi Maritime 117 



LETTER XVII. 



The Metamorphosed Rivulet 'j, 123 



LE7TER XVIII. 



The Anthropophagi 126 



LETTER XIX. 

 The Caddis — Aspects of Death — Flowing Water — Dress— The Leaf- 

 cutter Bee 131 



. LETTER' XX. 

 Flowers and their Memories 141 



LETTER XXI. 

 Music — Dragon-flies — The Water-lily and the Vallisneria 144 



LETTER XXII. 

 Memories of the Dead 150 



LETTER XXIII. 

 The Golden-crested Wren— Amateurs of Flowers — The Peony ... 153 



LETTER XXIV. 

 The poor Travellers— The Castle of Chillon 158 



LETTER XXV. 

 An Amateur finds fault with an Auricula 165 



LETTER XXVI. 

 An Old WaU 168 



LETTER XXVIL 

 The childish Theft— Retrihution 174 



