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it first issued from Bacon's mind, has been preferred to 

 the more elaborate Latin version. 



Of the ' Essays,' an annotated edition by Mr. W. 

 Aldis Wright has long been one of the most popular 

 volumes of the present publishers' Golden Treasury Series. 

 Of the Advancement of Learning^ an edition for school use 

 was prepared for them by Mr. F. G. Selby in 1892-95. 

 In adding to the present edition a brief glossary and a 

 translation of the Latin quotations, use has been made 

 in the one case of Mr. Wright's glossary and Mr. Selby's 

 notes, and in the other of Mr. Selby's translations of 

 the quotations in the Advancement. For the quotations in 

 the Essays and the Colours of Good and Evil the versions 

 of earlier editors have been consulted, but responsibility for 

 these renderings, as well as for any faults in the glossary, 

 in its intentionally brief form, may not be shifted on other 

 shoulders. 



A. W. POLLARD. 



