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PREFACE

SEVERAL of these Essays have not yet appeared in print. Others are republished from the

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Fortnightly,"

Contemporary," and

one from
from the

Reviews;
Hobby-Horse."

Century

"" New "

Guild

There is an interval of more than thirty years between the earliest of the series, "Clifton and a Lad's Love," and the latest.

I have tried to make the selection representative of the different kinds of work in which I have been principally engaged-Greek and Renaissance Literature, Description of Places, Translation, Criticism, Original Verse.

September 1892.

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS.