VI PREFACE. 



mentary books, or dismissed in a few closing pages, 

 have received an attention somewhat more suited 

 to their importance : but in these, as well as in the 

 other Classes, the impossibility of doing anything 

 like justice to a subject so vast, within the limits 

 of two small volumes, has been strongly and some- 

 times painfully felt. The Author presumes to hope, 

 however, that some who may peruse the following 

 pages may be induced to study the subject more 

 extensively, and thus open to themselves sources of 

 gratification, as innocent as they are delightful. 



KENTISH-TOWN. 

 April, 1844. 



