PREFACE. XXVH 



obligation conferred upon him, by the 

 means here afforded of fitting himself for 

 the dignity of command, and by the impor- 

 tant lights held out to him upon a subject, 

 where he is " at present without any 

 rational direction whatever for his con- 

 duct/' It is on these grounds, that in 

 giving the Kunopaedia to the public, the 

 editor feels himself warranted in looking 

 forward to its favourable reception, to 

 adopt a language which he finds bequeathed 

 to him, "from every man who can perceive 

 beauty in order ; from every man who has 

 the ambition to become the leader of 

 efficient troops ; from every man who takes 

 the field with the idea of taking the direc- 

 tion of his dog, or whose notions of the 

 diversion rise at all above the level of an 

 unmeaning ramble after the tail of the 

 latter, in the mutual indulgence of a 

 gaping inquiry which way they are to go." 



It remains now only to make an obser- 

 vation or two concerning some shadows of 

 personal, or at least of local, application ; 

 which, although contemplating an address 



