Excerpt from Eighteenth Century Studies Essays

Some half-dozen of the chapters which make up this volume have already appeared in various magazines, and I have to offer my thanks to Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. Messrs. Richard Bentley and Sons, and Mr. John Maxwell, for their readily accorded permission to reprint them.

The remaining Essays see the light for the first time, and I venture to hope that they will be found not less worthy of attention than those which have already been printed, and concerning which my editors have been pleased to speak very kindly.

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