INTRODUCTION. VII 



Lowe, F.R.S., of Higlifield House near Nottingham, and the 

 portrait of Ludwig Knoblock from one taken while he was in 

 England in lSGl-2. 



Warned by my rashness on a former occasion, I make no 

 forecast of a successor to the present vokuiie, but I may say 

 that the continuation is begun. 



A. N. 



Cambhidge, 

 April 190l>. 



