Three months' rest at Pau, in the winter and spring of 1859

Preface

. Every writer has two duties; first, to receive correct impressions, and then to record them faith fully : he must try to do the first, but he is bound to do the second. It would be too much to suppose that all the impressions I have received are correct ; but I have uniformly endeavoured to record them as they were received, without false colouring or exaggeration. In one respect alone have I departed from the strict letter of truth. I have used the privilege of an" unknown writer in studiously dis guising my own personality, only taking care that such disguise should in no respect interfere with the truth of impressions conveyed to the general reader. J. A. W. CONTENTS.

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