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difficulties arising from the excusable slips of previous workers.

In spite of their deficiencies, I trust that these added pages may have some value as a slight supplement to the life-work of him who has now gone from us. The reader has before him the last written lines of the author of "English Writers," and as he turns to them may he not hear in the words of England's greatest poet the cheerful voice of Henry Morley?—

"But be contented

My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee.

The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me."

W. HALL GRIFFIN.

March, 1895.

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