one whose natural qualifications and knowledge of history,
combined with accurate and careful scholarship, would be
most valuable to me; and my expectations have been in
every way fulfilled.

A writer is fortunate who receives from his publisher that
sound literary advice and kindly sympathy which I have
received from Mr. John Murray during the last seventeen
years.

G. B. G.

OXFORD, 15th September 1910.

This volume was published first in 1911. The edition was
sold out in a very few years, but my publisher, Mr. John
Murray, did not see his way to publish a second edition. In
course of time secondhand copies of the book rose to such a
price that it was impossible for the average student, includ-
ing myself, to buy them. Mr. Murray, however, expressed
his readiness to forgo his share in the copyright should any
other publisher undertake the re-issue of the work.

The work has been revised, but the revision comes to very
little--only one change in respect to matter and a few minor
changes in respect to form.

G. B. GRUNDY

OXFORD 1947

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