Sea Shells 
of New 
Zealand : 
Creator, who saw, and still sees, that everythin 
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had made was very good. ye ee 
As for me, if I can persuade my readers—or, let me sa 
my friends—to view, with kindly eye, objects that so fs 
may have appealed but faintly to their sense of beaut : 
then shall I be amply rewarded; for the joys of life ue 
set ppscnhs even in the simplest forms, and, once as 
realise this, we can fully appreciate the immort 
of Keats— ai 
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.” 
