ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.
They tell me, gentle Reader, that I must either write a new Preface, or add to the present one, on this pleasant occasion of “The Flower-Seasons Illusstrated” reaching a second edition. Ill would it be-become a favoured writer to be uncourteous to her generous patrons, and I therefore gladly accede to the demand. But the feelings expressed in my former prefatory remarks would inevitably be repeated in a second essay, and they shall therefore remain as before:—then what have I to say?—nothing, save the presentation of my own poor thanks for the unmixed kindness with which my volume has been received. To render it in some measure more worthy, I have carefully corrected some typographical and other errors, and in a few places added to the matter.
I will here remark, in answer to several enquiries on the subject, that the metrical passages interwoven with the prose, are, when not marked otherwise, original.
