OR,

THE TEACHINGS OF LIFE.

BY

MRS. JEROME MERCIER,

AUTHOR OF "CHRISTABEL hope."

"All that Nature made thine own,
Floating in air or pent in stone,
Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
And, like thy shadow, follow thee."

R. W. EMERSON.

WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.,

BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, WELFORD AND CO.

250. c. 391.

LONDON:

J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS,

BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

ΤΟ

MY DEAR HUSBAND,

I DEDICATE THIS,

The simple firstfruits of my pen,

WHICH, IN ITS GROWTH,

WAS AIDED BY HIS KIND COUNSEL.