PREFACE 



PORTIONS of this volume have appeared in the form 

 of Articles in the Cornhill and Badminton Magazines, 

 Country Life, and Land and Water. I desire to 

 express my acknowledgments and thanks to the 

 Editors and Proprietors of those periodicals for per- 

 mission to reproduce them, and also beg to thank 

 Mr. Watts-Dunton, the proprietor of the copyright, 

 for permission to quote extracts from Mr. Swin- 

 burne's poems. 



A. E. GATHORNE-HARDY. 



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