A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)

PREFACE

TO THE RE-ISSUE OF 1880.

The title of this book,--or, more accurately, of its subject;--for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains,--will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats by the good folks of Manchester, to be writte...