x PREFACE. 



And now looking back, as my labour closes, 

 there lies behind me — in connexion with the first 

 edition — a vista of thoughts and memories to which 

 it were impossible to give expression, but to which 

 I cannot omit all reference in this place ; and to my 

 brother's personal friends, to my own friends, and 

 to those of my family generally, and to the perfect 

 strangers to me who criticized the volume in the 

 press, whose friendly and sympathetic words are still 

 present to me as I write these lines, I would fain 

 take this opportunity of recording — in the names of 

 myself and the surviving members of my family — our 

 deep sense of gratitude for the consolation which 

 their words afforded us. The beloved companion of 

 my own wanderings abroad, above referred to, for 

 the restoration of whose health they were under- 

 taken, is no longer here to join in this expression of 

 thankfulness, my mother having passed away from 

 us since these lines were first written. 



With these words, then, of thankfulness for the 

 past, alike on my lips and in my heart, I beg to 

 offer this second edition of the work to any readers 

 who have not seen the first, or who, having seen it, 

 desire to renew acquaintance with the book in its 

 present form. 



C. G. O. 



July 1889. 



