TO
MY FRIEND
MAJOR-GENERAL A. W. DRAYSON
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN
OF
MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GREAT
AND AS YET UNRECOGNISED SERVICES TO ASTRONOMY
This little Volume
IS
DEDICATED
PREFACE For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the
courtesy of the Proprietors of “Cornhill,” “Temple Bar,” “Belgravia,”
“London Society,” “Cassell’s,” and “The Boys’ Own Paper.”