PREFACE. JUST one or two words to the reader of this little story will be all the Preface necessary. The character of "Eliza Davies" is taken from life, and, should it be thought to be overdrawn, we beg to affirm that the "truth was stranger than the fiction." In "John Wynter" the writer has attempted to delineate the character of one to whom she owes all that may be of any worth in herself, but whose beautiful inner life she finds it impossible to describe so as to give an adequate idea of its value-a blending of earnestness, purity, |