Custos juris reimprimendi
Caveat homo trium literarum
[The touching Dedication on the opposite page was penned by my father a
few months before his death on February 18, 1886. I have thought it
best to leave it exactly as he had planned it, although now, alas! Mr.
Parkman is no longer with us. Let us hope the old friends may have
again joined hands beyond the unknown sea.-H. N. S.]