THE present volume is the first work published on the Ruther-
ford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund. This Founda-
tion was established in May, 1920, through a gift to Yale
University by his widow in memory of Rutherford Trowbridge, Esq.,
of New Haven, who died December 18, 1918, and who in 1899 had
established the Thomas Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Lectureship
Fund in the School of the Fine Arts at Yale. It was in a series of
lectures delivered on this Foundation that the material comprised in
this volume was first given to the public. By the establishment of
the Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund, the Univer-
sity has been enabled to make available for a much wider audience
the work growing out of lectures given at Yale through the generosity
of one who sought always to render service to the community in which
he lived; and, through its university, to the world.

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