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Rh of the eighteenth century." Indeed, it nay well be that we have in this preface even a more true picture of Lioy than that given in the poem, which, as Mr William Black ays in his monograph on Goldmith, "is there seen through he oftening and beautifying mit of years."

Much more might be aid of the characteritics of this little book, which contains o much that reminds us not only of the tyle but the matter of many of Goldmith's writings. Mis Yonge ays: "There is a certain dry humour in ome paages and a tendernes in others that incline us much to the belief that it could come from no one ele but the writer of 'The Vicar of Wakefield'