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I beg he may not be held responsible for any errors 

 there may herein be found in either — these must be 

 put down to imperfections in the text. I am also ■ 

 indebted to Miss Toulmin Smith for her kind re- 

 vision of the proofs and for suggestions which her 

 long friendship with my father made most valuable. 



I am also indebted to Messrs. Macmillan for 

 having agreed, after my father's death in 1892, to 

 publish a small memorial volume of his papers. My 

 father, as will be seen in these papers, had never 

 been any assistance from a business standpoint to 

 the house of Macmillan, but his friendship with 

 Alexander Macmillan and with Robert Bowes — of 

 Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge — was a long and 

 unbroken one. 



The Publishers felt that a Memoir was needed to 

 introduce this volume, as my father was so much 

 less known to the literar>' public than his brothers 

 Charles and Henry. It was originally hoped that 

 the late Earl of Pembroke might contribute such 

 an introduction, but this idea was unhappily frus- 

 trated by his illness and death. After some delay, 

 I reluctantly undertook the completion of the task, 

 regretting it was not in an abler hand, but thankful 

 that much of it has been. 



M. H. KINGSLEY. 



