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Sea Shells
of New Zealand

Creator, who saw, and still sees, that everything that He had made was very good.

As for me, if I can persuade my readers—or, let me say, my friends—to view, with kindly eye, objects that so far may have appealed but faintly to their sense of beauty, then shall I be amply rewarded; for the joys of life are ever present, even in the simplest forms, and, once we realise this, we can fully appreciate the immortal words of Keats—

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”

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