perhaps less generally suitable than most of the others in the list; and
Miss Austen because English novelists were somewhat over-represented.

HIGH ELMS,

DOWN, KENT, _August 1890_.






THE PLEASURES OF LIFE

PART I


"All places that the eye of Heaven visits
Are to the wise man ports and happy havens."

SHAKESPEARE.


"Some murmur, when their sky is clear
And wholly bright to view,
If one small speck of dark appear
In their great heaven of blue.
And some with thankful love are fill'd
If but one streak of light,
One ray of God's good mercy gild