THE separate publication of this sketch has been forced upon me by the “somewhat free use” made of it in a second and thereby enlarged edition of the “little book” to which I owe my _introduction_ to Marjorie Fleming,--but nothing more; a “use” so exceedingly “free” as to extend almost to everything with which I had ventured perhaps to encumber the letters and journals of that dear child. To be called “kind and genial” by the individual who devised this edition has, strange as he may think it, altogether failed to console me. Empty praise without the solid pudding is proverbially a thing of naught; but what shall we say of praise the emptiness of which is aggravated, not merely by the absenc…
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