Produced by MWS, Stephen Hutcheson, Carol Spears, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) SYLVIE AND BRUNO BY LEWIS CARROLL _WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY FURNISS_ _London_ MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1890 _The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved_ Presswork by John Wilson and Son, University Press. Is all our Life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream? Bowed to the earth with bitter woe, Or laughing at some raree-show, We flutter idly to and fro. Man’s little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end. PREFACE. One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn by ‘Miss Alice Havers.’ I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) _wonderful_ pictures, that his name should stand there alone. The descriptions, at pp. 386, 387, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted _verbatim_ from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend. The Chapters, headed ‘Fairy Sylvie’ and ‘Bruno’s Revenge,’ are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for ‘Aunt Judy’s Magazine,’ which she was then editing.