

FOEEWOED TO VOLUME FIFTY. 



A PORTRAIT in the forefront of a work by a living author 

 is generally an evidence either of celebrity or obscurity. In 

 the former case it is usually placed there at the suggestion of 

 his publisher ; in the latter at his own, in which case it may 

 be regarded as a form of self-advertisement. There may, 

 however, be a reason apart from either of these extremes, and 

 I venture to think that the completion of the fiftieth year of 

 a Journal may afford sufficient justification for prefixing 

 thereto the portrait of one who has been responsible for the 

 publication of thirty-two of its volumes, and whose name 

 appeared among the contributors to its first issue in 1863. 



JAMES BEITTEN. 



41 Boston Koad, Brentford, 

 Nov. 20, 1912. 





