This volume is offered to the world with the sincere hope that its readers will not only find it expository of the spiritual, in contrast with the carnal and socio-com mercial side of love and marriage, but may realize in it as well one of those companionable books that tempt us out of doors and keep us there. Hence the philosophy Of the story is relieved by episodes in themselves enter taining and instructive. The episode entitled The Fisherman of Lake Sunapee has long been referred to the pen of Charles Dickens, and there are points Of agree ment with the American Notes which confirm the theory that, if not the novelist himself, some one of his com pany wrote the pathetic tale which appeared in a number of English magazines during the late forties and was ex tensively copied in American periodicals. The scene of the story is laid partly at Lake Sunapee in Central New Hampshire, and partly in the City of New York.

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