Uniform with this Volume Avril. By HILAIRE BELLOC. Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance. Esto Perpetua. By H. BELLOC. Algerian Studies and Impressions. Men, Women, and Books: Res Judicatæ. By AUGUSTINE BIRRELL. Complete in One Volume. Obiter Dicta. By AUGUSTINE BIRRELL. First and Second Series complete in One Volume. Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer. By GEORGE Bourne. A Study of Four Poets. By STOPFORD A. BROOKE, LL.D. Essays on Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, and Morris. Studies in Poetry. By STOPFORD A. BROOKE, LL.D. Essays on Blake, Scott, Shelley, Keats, etc. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes. By LINA ECKENStein. Essays in a branch of Folk-lore. Italian Poets since Dante. Critical Essays. By W. EVERETT. Villa Rubein, and Other Stories. By JOHN GALSWORTHY. Faith, and Other Sketches. By R. B. Cunninghame GRAHAM. Progress, and Other Sketches. By R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Success, and Other Sketches. By R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest. By W. H. HUDSON. The Purple Land. By W. H. HUDSON. A Crystal Age. A Romance of the Future. By W. H. HUDson. The Heart of the Country. By FORD MADOX Hueffer. The Soul of London. By FORD MADOX HUEFFER. The Spirit of the People. An Analysis of the English Mind. By FORD MADOX HUEFFER. After London-Wild England. By RICHArd Jefferies. Amaryllis at the Fair. By RICHARD JEFFERIES. Bevis. The Story of a Boy. By RIChard Jefferies. The Hills and the Vale. By RICHARD JEfferies. The Greatest Life. An Enquiry into the Foundations of Character. By GERALD Leighton, M.D. St. Augustine and his Age. МССАВЕ. An Interpretation. By JOSEPH Between the Acts. By H. W. NEVINSON. Essays in Freedom. By H. W. NEVINSON. Parallel Paths. A Study of Biology, Ethics, and Art. By T. W. ROLLESTON. The Strenuous Life, and Other Essays. By THEODORE ROOSEVELT. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century. By Sir LESLIE Stephen. Studies of a Biographer. First Series. By Sir Leslie Stephen. Two Volumes. Studies of a Biographer. Second Series. By Sir LESLIE STEPHEN. Interludes in Verse and Prose. By Sir George Trevelyan. DUCKWORTH & CO., LONDON 952 P311 P 1013 First Published, 1889; Reprinted, 1890, 1898, 1912. New Edition, in One Volume, by permission of AIROHLIAD PREFACE OME of these Essays have already appeared in SOME the Fortnightly Review, the Edinburgh Review, the St. James's Gazette, or elsewhere. In the original issue the author had noted that "thoughts had sometimes been repeated, almost in the same words." In the rearrangement here adopted no attempt has been made to obviate this repetition, which may be even more conspicuous than in the original order; but, "as these thoughts are mostly unfamiliar and significant, readers will be none the worse for encountering them twice or even thrice." Shortly before his death, Mr. Patmore had suggested a rearrangement for a new issue, which has been adopted and completed for this edition. A few corrections and omissions have also been made, the greater number of which were either marked or sanctioned by the author himself. The alterations not actually his own are few and of small importance. Some obvious mistakes in matters of fact, and 296305 |