Preface by the Editor 



respect which they feel. Let them consider further that 

 the new book is offered less to the older audience, already 

 readers of Downing, than to the new and larger company 

 of those who, having grown up wholly in present times, are 

 not yet his students and admirers. If a new edition of 

 his works will help to preserve his memory, to spread his 

 wise and kindly instruction and to extend his beneficent 

 influence to a new generation surely everyone can rejoice 

 in that result. 



FRANK A. WAUGH. 



AMHERST, MASS., 

 January 1, 1921. 



