UNDERTONES.

BY

ROBERT BUCHANAN.

'Shades, that hang

Upon the region whither we are bound.'

THE EXCURSION.

66 Calum ipsum petimus."

HORACE.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON & CO., DOVER STREET.

1863.

Mome

25 March 42

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

JOHN WESTLAND MARSTON, ESQ., LL.D.,

Author of the "Patrician's Daughter," " A Lady in Her Own Right," &c.

DEAR WESTLAND MARSTON,

To whom can I more appropriately dedicate these Undertones than to the man whose friendship has been a comfort to me during four years of the bitterest struggle and disappointment, and whose voice has whispered "courage when I seemed faltering down the easy descent to Acheron ? The world knows least of your noble soul. High-minded, gracious-hearted, possessed of the true instinct of an artist, you have laid me under a debt of affection which I can never repay; yet take the Book, as a token that I love and honour

you.

Ever yours,

LONDON, November 1st, 1863.

neversity Place Boob

ROBERT BUCHANAN.