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PREFACE. I shall not attempt any laboured encomiums on Shakspeare, or endeavour to set forth his perfections, at a time when such universal and just applause is paid him, and when every tongue is big with his boundless fame. He himself tells us— " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To...

INTRODUCTION.-ftO*---Amidst all the wonderful revolutions that have marked the present century, no country beneath the sun has experienced such, a rapid change, in so short a period, as the Australian colony of Port Phillip. Traeing the gradual development of this colony, we find that, in the year...

PREFACE In a previous book about Arabia I was handicapped by a disinclination to put words into the mouth of a living man, and one of the criticisms levelled against that book was that there was " not enough Lawrence in it." In the present volume I have more or less taken the bit between my...

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.TiiE Publishers have the pleasure of offering in this A^olume the first cheap edition of Scott's Lives of the Novelists and Draraatists."' The memoirs are valuable, especially as regards the masterly Criticisms on Fiction, as no authority greater than Scott's can be found on...