BY
WM. DAVENPORT ADAMS
AUTHOR OF 'DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,' ETC.
'_Excursusque breves tentat._'
'GEORGICS,' iv. 194.
LONDON
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW
1888
TO MY FATHER,
W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS,
THIS LITTLE VOLUME
Is Affectionately Inscribed.
_In the following pages, the writer for the most part deals with small
subjects in an unelaborate manner. He leaves the highways of literature,
and strays into the fields and lanes, picking here a flower and there a
leaf, and not going far at any time. There is no endeavour to explore
with system, or to extend any excursion beyond a modest ramble. The
author wanders at haphazard into paths which have attracted him, and
along which, he hopes, the reader may be willing to bear him company._