PREFACE. xi

 commend their book. Instead, there has
 been but the desire to bring the remem-
 brance of emotions which were the Read-
 er's own; to spread the yellow sunshine
 before his dreaming eyes; to steep his
 overwise insistent consciousness in a fog
 of content; to gather a misty memory of
 beautiful days,-to strike the key-note of
 a harmony which each soul may fulfil.
 So modest an object will not deserve the
 ruffled protest of the Learned Reader.
 His own remembrance is' all that Florida
Days will venture to suggest.

 M. D.
 AUGUST 12, 1889.