reminiscence of old Jamaican experiences. Our _Eight-Legged Friends_
were observed at leisure on the window-panes of our own little nook at
Dorking. _A Hill-Top Stronghold_ was sketched _in situ_ at Florence by
a window that looked across the valley to Fiesole. Excursions into
books or into the remoter past have given occasion for the
archæological essays relegated here to the end of the volume.

My thanks are due to Messrs. Longmans for permission to reprint from
their magazine _My Islands_, _A Hill-Top Stronghold_, _A Desert Fruit_,
_The Isle of Ruim_, _Eight-Legged Friends_, and _Tropical Education_. I
have also to acknowledge a similar courtesy on the part of Messrs.
Smith & Elder with regard to _Mud_, _The Bronze Axe_, _High Life_,
_Pretty Poll_, _The Greenwood Tree_, _On the Wings of the Wind_,
_Casters and Chesters_, and _Fish as Fathers_, all of which originally
appeared in the _Cornhill_. Messrs. Chatto & Windus have been equally
kind as regards the paper on _An English Shire_ contributed to the
_Gentleman's_. _A Persistent Nationality_ made its first bow in the
_North American Review_, and has still to be introduced to an English
audience.

G.A.

Hind Head, Surrey, _Oct._, 1892.




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