PREFACE

Of these studies in miniature twelve have already appeared in this country: one in the "Saturday Review," one in the "St. James's Gazette," and ten in "Black and White." These have been revised, and in some cases enlarged; and are here reprinted with the kind permission of the Proprietors of those publications. The remainder of the volume is now for the first time presented to English readers, having been contributed to an American periodical, the "Independent" of New York, at the suggestion of whose Editor the series was begun four years ago.

DUNSTER, October 1891.

PREFACE

Of these studies in miniature twelve have already appeared in this country: one in the "Saturday Review," one in the "St. James's Gazette," and ten in "Black and White." These have been revised, and in some cases enlarged; and are here reprinted with the kind permission of the Proprietors of those publications. The remainder of the volume is now for the first time presented to English readers, having been contributed to an American periodical, the "Independent" of New York, at the suggestion of whose Editor the series was begun four years ago.

DUNSTER, October 1891.