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My thanks are due to the Editor of the “” for permission to republish two of the following essays. The rest, with one exception, appeared in the “” and it is a matter of profound regret that, owing to the surcease of that paper, I can no longer ask permission of its former Editor to republish them. It would not be easy for me to repay Mr W. E. Henley the deep debt of gratitude I owe him for the literary encouragement which, in common with many others, I have always received at his hands.

, October 1897.