And here with a sad heart I must close. I had written most of these pages at a time when we had every belief that the changes experienced had effected cure—at least to the extent of allowing us to go home for the summer. And we had been so much longer away than we had proposed when we left, that not unnaturally we were the more anxious to be back. The last change was destined to be fatal. Looking to second causes, it is probable that the unforeseen and unusual moisture to which we had been exposed everywhere after leaving Italy, succeeding so long a residence in a dry climate, had developed latent seeds of disease, and weakness had latterly been increased by exposure to a cold draft inducing cough. Whatever was the cause, she for whose benefit we had taken this prolonged tour in sunny lands, and who we had fondly hoped had been restored to health, sank within a few months from the time of touching her native shore. It was when hopes were beginning to revive, and she herself had thought the crisis was past, a sudden change for the worse took place. After a restless night, the morning light, for which she had anxiously longed, only arrived to bear her soul peacefully away from weakness and solicitude to a land brighter than any she had looked on here. Though gentle and unpresuming, her cheerful and unselfish disposition, joined to other graces, and to good sense born of a well–balanced and well–informed mind, soon made her acquaintance valued wherever she went; and, scattered as so many are, perhaps it is only through this little record some may chance to learn that they have lost an esteemed friend. THE END. MORRISON AND GIBB, EDINBURGH, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE. APRIL 1879. GENERAL LISTS OF NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. HISTORY, POLITICS, HISTORICAL MEMOIRS &c. Armitage’s Childhood of the English Nation. Fcp. 8vo. 2_s._ 6_d._ Arnold’s Lectures on Modern History. 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ Bagehot’s Literary Studies. 2 vols. 8vo. 28_s._ Buckle’s History of Civilisation. 3 vols. crown 8vo. 24_s._ Chesney’s Indian Polity. 8vo. 21_s._ — Waterloo Lectures. 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ Digby’s Famine Campaign in India. 2 vols. 8vo. 32_s._ Durand’s First Afghan War. Crown 8vo. Epochs of Ancient History:— Beesly’s Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla, 2_s._ 6_d._ Capes’s Age of the Antonines, 2_s._ 6_d._ — Early Roman Empire, 2_s._ 6_d._ Cox’s Athenian Empire, 2_s._ 6_d._ — Greeks and Persians, 2_s._ 6_d._ Curteis’s Rise of the Macedonian Empire, 2_s._ 6_d._ Ihne’s Rome to its Capture by the Gauls, 2_s._ 6_d._ Merivale’s Roman Triumvirates, 2_s._ 6_d._ Sankey’s Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 2_s._ 6_d._ Epochs of English History:—