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 most newer ones, not to speak of those I cite being now to the majority of the class of readers to which my little work is directed, the wisdom of letting it pass on as it is seems maintainable. I have reluctantly withdrawn from my pages one large inclusion in the manuscript, a full and classified Bibliography of homosexualism, that included many hundreds of publications in all departments, from psychiatric etudes to novels and verse, solely because I cannot now advance it beyond the year 1901, when I laid it aside.

A particular difficulty in now putting the book into print at all has been the fact that it necessarily has been printed in a country where English is a language peculiarly foreign even to intelligent type-setters and proofreaders. Every correction has been made only through the vigilance of the authour as best he could exercise it. But errors have been inevitable under such circumstances. in spite of constant care and patience. For many slips of the press, or errors of other sort that should have been corrected, the lenience of the reader is asked. Only those persons who have undertaken to see a book through press when not one type-setter or corrector knows the orthography, punctuation, syllable-division and so on of the words in hand, much less the meaning of one of them in a hundred, or is wonted to Anglo-Saxon proof-corrections. can appreciate the chances of errata more or less important in such a volume. Also the press corrections have been carried on almost wholly, week after week, by post: a most tedious process, with increased chances of uncorrected slips. The writer however hopes-that disfiguring or misleading errata are not too numerous.

For the last-mentioned reason, as Well as by the causes alluded to earlier, the authour has been unable to include an Index: greatly to his regret, and unexpectedly. The many topical headings in the paragrahs [sic] he hopes will considerably atone for the omission. Rome, 1908