Vill PREFACE 
for the service of a future volume. In the meantime the 
production of the present book was entrusted to my hands 
at his express desire. A circumstance so honourable to 
myself and so well fitted to inspire an initial confidence 
in my readers, it would, I think, be false modesty to con- 
ceal. My best thanks are due to Dr. Woodward for his 
friendly and favourable opinion of my capacity; they will 
be best paid if my performance has succeeded in de- 
serving it. 
THOMAS R. R. STEBBING 
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, 
February 17, 1892. 
