I saw—I see—no other way.

This is, indeed, a preface, yet I prefer to put it in this place, since it was at this time I wrote it.


On the Common a faint green is coming again like a mist among the ash-trees, while the oak is still dead and bare. Last year the oak came first.

They say we shall have a wet summer.


PART TWO (Continued)
THE WONDER AMONG BOOKS


PART TWO (Continued)
THE WONDER AMONG BOOKS