viii PREFACE BY DR. HENRY WOODWARD. 
due to the artist, Mr. Smit, is a matter of course, and so 
is the blame, where criticism is legitimate ; and no one is 
more sensible of the difficulties of the task than Mr. Smit 
himself. 
Speaking for myself, I am ve^y well pleased with the 
series of sketches ; and I may say so with the greater ease 
and freedom from respansibility, as I have had very little 
to do with them, save in one or two trifling matters of 
criticism. I may venture, however, to commend them to 
my friends among the public at large as the happiest set 
of restorations that has yet appeared 
H, W. 
