PREFACE 



FOR permission to indulge in one 

 of the greatest pleasures I have 

 known, I offer my best thanks 

 to Mrs. Jefferies, Messrs. Longmans, 

 Green & Co., Messrs. Chatto & Windus, 

 Messrs. Richard Bentley & Son, and 

 Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. ; 

 also the Editors of the following publi- 

 cations in which Jefferies' Essays first 

 appeared : The Fortnightly Review, 

 Manchester Guardian, Pall Mall 

 Gazette, Standard, English Illustrated 

 Magazine, Longman's Magazine, St. 

 James's Gazette, Art Journal, Chambers' 

 Journal, Magazine of Art, Century 



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