LIFE, HERE AND THERE --SKETCHES OF SOCIETY AND ADVENTURE FAR-APART TIMES AND PLACES - 1556 - PREFACE - So imperceptibly is one stage of life shaded into the n e x L ao gradual and easy are the transitions, through the changes worked by experience and observation-that we refer back to what we always said, and always thought,, as if we had .. always looked through the same eyes and judged bf-the sane standards. Yet, if we could recal the Past, with the backwardwaving wand of the magician, and could see, together, the two pictures-life as it seemed then, and life as it seems now-how startling, to any mind, would be the comparison An author who has chronicled his impressions, and preserved pictures of society, as he saw it at earlier and later stages of observation, has almost this magical privilege. He can look again at the scenes which he has copied and treasured up, and judge, as few others can, with what different eyes men look around them at farapart times and places. . In the following sketches, the writer records much in which he had a personal share, though the narratives, even when told in the first person are, by no means, intended to be strictly autobiographic. The characters are all drawn from life, however, and several of them re portraits, done with studied faithfulness, of celebrated men and women whom he has had the opportunity to know while the scenes of the diflbrent stories are minutely true to the manners of the countries, and the stylc of the society, in which t, hey are laid. If thc two. parts of the book do not seem to the reader to be written by the same pen, it but strengthens the remark with which this preface commences. But if, from these contrasted pictures, any knowledge can be drawn, as to the tendencies of a varied life, and as to the comparative value of the different spheFes and relations of society, here and abroad, he will not feel that even so s etchy. a work is withaut its uses. - CONTENTS - EDITH LINDSEY. A snow Storm-Desperate Work-First Introduction-Love Commencing-Intellectual Communion-Epicurism of Reading--Old Authors-Vision Explained-Too Fine for Use-Religion in Illness-Anatom y of Love-Minute Philosophies - Easy Luwriea-The Cultnre of Love-Albina McLuah-Natnre Parallels-Surprise at Health-To Realize Death-The Feelinga of the Sick-Illness, Poetry and Love-Verses in Absence-A Digression-A Charming Town-After Long Partings-For whom Write We -Time and Place - of Happiness-Sketch of a Chum-A Venture for a Friend-Souls in the Wrong Bodies-Naming Children-Boy Poems-June in America-Scenery versus Society-Travel in Canal Boats-Unwritten Music--Trenton Falls-Job on Horueback-Crack in the Earth-Rapida at Trehton-A Surpriae-Meeting Again-End of a Firnt Love.. ....................................................... I SCENES OF FEAR. The Disturbed Vigil-Aptness for Adrenture-A Western Student-Vigil with a Mdmau-Hot Coals on a Lunatic-Literal Lunacy-American Sleighing-Male Friendships-Madness in a Bridegroom-The Bridal-Lunacy Returned-Chase of a Madman-Death on the Bridal Night. ............................ 95 ON THE HUDSON . Fariaian-ism in America-Indians and Westerners-Plunge for a Lady-Xauterskill Falls-Narrow Escape. ...................................... 119 CONTENTS. PAQ E PEDLAR KARL. Cyphering by Trees-Possible Single-Blessedness-Latitudes of Belles-Lame . C Women-Five Minutes too soon-Helping Lovers-An Old Maid Aunt-Tender .............. Humbug-The Elopement-Getting Late-Nearly Done. 129 KIAGARA-LAKE ONTARIO-THE ST...