FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS;

OR, Two Ways of Living in the World.

EDITED BY T. S. ARTHUR.

PHILADELPHIA:

1856






PREFACE.





WE were about preparing a few words of introduction to this volume,
the materials for which have been culled from the highways and
byways of literature, where our eyes fell upon these fitting
sentiments, the authorship of which we are unable to give. They
express clearly and beautifully what was in our own mind:--

"If we would only bring ourselves to look at the subjects that
surround as in their true flight, we should see beauty where now
appears deformity, and listen to harmony where we hear nothing but