AND BIOGRAPHICAL BY SIR SPENCER WALPOLE AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM 1815," "STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY," ETC. EDITED BY FRANCIS HOLLAND NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY 31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET PREFACE THE reception accorded to the Studies in Biography of the late Sir Spencer Walpole encourages the hope that a new volume of essays by the same distinguished author may be read with interest. With two exceptions they are reproduced from the Edinburgh Review, and acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Longman for their kindness in permitting the publication. Substantially they are reprinted in their original form, those passages only having been omitted which contain direct criticism of the books under review, and are not, therefore, of permanent interest. Of the other two essays, one, that on Crabbe, was delivered as a lecture to the East Anglian Society; and the other, a sketch of Mr. Frank Buckland, appeared in Macmillan's Magazine. I have to thank Messrs. Macmillan for permitting me to republish this appreciation of the kind-hearted naturalist by a kindred spirit; and I have also to thank Mr. Arthur Elliot for his courtesy in conveying to me the permission of Grillion's Club for the reproduction in the frontispiece of Mr. Hugh Riviere's admirable portrait of the author. The essays are preceded by a last Study in Biography," which will be valued by many as a memorial of a much loved and most lovable nature. 198388 |