Excerpt from Life and Letters of John Bacchus Dykes, M.A., Mus, Doc, , Vicar of St. Oswald's, DurhamMs. And proof-sheets, and that my name appears on the title-page.It has been said that no man's life ought to be written until twenty years after his death, and there is often much to be urged in favour of this opinion. The lapse of years reveals whether a man's work has been a living work, besides, had the present Life been published soon after Dr. Dykes' decease, it would have been painful to Bishop Baring, and might possibly have been the means of stirring up strife. Even now some may think that the correspondence between Dr. Dykes and the Bishop ought not again to be published.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.