PREFACE. HESE stray "Sketches" have been gathered out THESE of different homes. Many of them appeared in "Good Words; " several are now printed for the first time. The five at the beginning of the second part were published in a periodical destined for younger readers. "Sketches from Nature" have always a certain charm for the maker of them, as in some degree recalling the "Nature" which inspired them. If they have something of the same effect on my readers I can wish for nothing more. |