A journey to nature
The papers in this book were originally contributed to the New York Evening Post^ where they elicited a printed desire for their preservation in book form.
Written at intervals, with very slight continuity of narrative, for weekly readers, all of whom could hardly be expected to follow them consecutively, they were necessarily repetitious and explanatory In spots and required rewriting and editing when collected in book form for continuous reading.
Those papers, therefore, have been specially prepared for this volume, the new matter having been introduced and much that was explanatory to weekly readers having been eliminated. The personages introduced are taken from life and are put down with a free hand as the writer saw them at the time, one of them still coloured by the fantasy she evoked.
The sketches necessarily vary with the varying moods which one brings with him to Nature, and which sometimes colour and distort Nature herself. But if in their entirety they convey in any small degree the authors slowly matured conviction that external Nature has a lesson of obedience and love behind all her aberrations and laws, and whispers that " God Is in his world '' to those who are receptive and attentive, they will have accomplished the only purpose that the author had In his mind.
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