HEART AND SCIENCE

by Wilkie Collins


Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time

TO

SARONY

(OF NEW YORK)

ARTIST; PHOTOGRAPHER,

AND

GOOD FRIEND


PREFACE

TO READERS IN GENERAL

I.

You are the children of Old Mother England, on both sides of the
Atlantic; you form the majority of buyers and borrowers of novels; and
you judge of works of fiction by certain inbred preferences, which but
slightly influence the other great public of readers on the continent