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 treatise of the author of the ' Imitation ' — Thomas a Kempis."

And further on in his Preface (para. 13, page li), Dr. Kettlewell writes:

" A few observations must be made about this undertaking before concluding. As in some of the former editions of the ' Imitation ' it was found desirable to omit certain passages, so also has it been felt advisable to do so, even to a greater extent, in the 'De Vita.' Any words sanctioning Mariolatry, and the Invocation of Saints and Angels, or any occasional allusion to some corruption or error prevalent in the Pre-Reformation Church, are carefully excluded. Indeed three entire chapters are left out: two in the second Part, which to a certain extent repeat what had gone before; the other chapter is in the third Part, founded on Christ's appearance after His Resurrection to the Virgin Mary."

The three omitted chapters are XXVI and XXXIV of Treatise I, Part II, and Chapter VI of Treatise II, Part I.

But besides these entire chapters I have counted fifty-six (evidently intentional) omissions of words, sentences, and paragraphs, running sometimes to a whole page or more; and the statement that " rarely is there a word given but what has been written by the devout author" seems to me inadequate. I have noted forty-five passages (not infrequently running to a whole sentence at a time) in which, apart from omissions, the sense