Scientific discovery has made immense progress, and the innumerable inventions of the period have helped to bring about quite a revolution in our modes of working, thinking, and living. I have endeavoured to portray the effect of this revolution on our little community, and to give a homely presentment of social and domestic life then and now, and in this way to preserve some knowledge of the features of the life of our forebears, which are rapidly disappearing in modem society, and many of which it will not be well for us altogether to forget.
