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A LITTLEENGLISH GALLERY

TO

EDMUND GOSSE

THIS FRIENDLY TRESPASS ON HIS FIELDS

PREFATORY NOTE

The studies in this book are chosen from anumber written at irregular intervals, and fromsheer interest in their subjects, long ago. Portionsof them, or rough drafts of what has sincebeen wholly remodelled from fresher and fullermaterial at first hand, have appeared within fiveyears in The Atlantic Monthly, Macmillan’s,The Catholic World, and Poet-Lore; and thanksare due the magazines for permission to reprintthem. Yet more cordial thanks, for kind assistanceon biographical points, belong to theEarl of Powis; the Rev. R. H. Davies, Vicarof old St. Luke’s, Chelsea; the Rev. T. VereBayne, of Christchurch, and H. E. D. Blakiston,Esq., of Trinity College, Oxford; T. W.Lyster, Esq., of the National Library of Ireland;Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, Esq.; MissLangton, of Langton-by-Spilsby; the Vicars ofDauntsey, Enfield Highway, and Montgomery,and especially those of High Ercall and Speke;and the many others in England through whosecourtesy and patience the tracer of these unimportantsketches has been able to make themapproximately life-like.

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