COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

VOL. 1756.

BY PROXY BY JAMES PAYN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

"Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea,

Not in the clefts of the mountains,

Is there a spot in the whole world

Where a man may be freed from an evil deed."

Buddhist Proverb.

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MY FRIENDS OF THE LUNCHEON TABLE

THIS BOOK

IS

CORDIALLY DEDICATED

'The pattern handmade, homelike, but the plates mostly of China'

GARTH'S Tea-table.