ESSAYS ON DIET BY FRANCIS WILLIAM NEWMAN EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON ETC. LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE PREFACE. IN response to general request these Essays and Lectures have been reprinted in their present form. They are but selections from a much larger collection of contributions made by the learned author to current English literature during the past fifteen years. This volume includes e.g. papers which originally appeared in the 'North of England Review,' of Newcastle-on-Tyne; the 'Reform Union Gazette,' of Manchester (in 1876), and 'Fraser's Magazine' (February 1875); also lectures or addresses which have been given at Manchester (October 14, 1868); at the Manchester Friends' Institute (October 20, 1872); at Gloucester (December 2, 1870); and at the Manchester Athenæum (October 26, 1876). That frequent repetition should occur is inevitable from the form adopted and from the origin of the several papers here collected together. Yet it |