

PREFATORY NOTE. 

 BY SIDNEY COLVIN, M.A. 



MOST of the papers which follow in this Volume, and in the first 

 section of Volume II., are republished, by the kind permission of 

 the proprietors, from one or other of the following periodicals : 

 the Edinburgh Review, the North British Review, the Nineteenth 

 Century, Macmillan's Magazine, the Saturday Review, the Art 

 Journal. 



The reader will not fail to bear in mind that the contents 

 of these sections do not represent their author's main occupa- 

 tions, but are the Trdpspja or by-labours of a life busily occu- 

 pied in scientific and professional pursuits. They touch on 

 many matters ; but such were the keenness and loyalty of the 

 writer's intelligence that on whatever subject engaged his at- 

 tention he was almost sure to find something to say that was 

 well worth hearing. When masters in such divers fields as 

 Darwin and Munro have acknowledged the value of his argu- 

 ments, weaker testimony is needless. Neither does it seem 

 necessary, in a memorial collection such as this, to apologise for 

 including some pieces in which farther reflection might have 

 modified our friend's conclusions, or others (e.g. the paper on 

 ' Greek Dress ' ) in which his observations have lost some of 

 their freshness through lapse of time or the labours of others. 

 The essay ' On Rhythm ' I have put together out of three sepa- 

 rate articles, and in this instance alone have ventured on some 

 slight abridgment and correction of the text. The fragments 



