AUTHOR'S NOTE 



THE Author's acknowledgments are due to the 

 Editor of The Nineteenth Century and After for 

 his kind permission to reprint such of the 

 following studies as have already appeared in 

 that Review, and also to " George Fleming " 

 (Miss Constance Fletcher) for her rendering, on 

 page 146, of four verses of Christine de Pisan's 

 poem on Joan of Arc. 



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