Familiar Studies of Men and Books

PREFACE

BY WAY OF CRITICISM.

THESE studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the _New Quarterly_, one in _Macmillan’s_, and the rest in the _Cornhill Magazine_. To the _Cornhill_ I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have all...