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PREFACE
tributed to The Educational Review. All the essays have been revised, and in some cases slight additions have been made.
In venturing to select a title for the collection which is accurately descriptive of only the first three or four essays, I have been influenced by the desire to indicate precisely the character of what is perhaps the most distinctive part of the book. The other papers, too, if not strictly essays in historical criticism, were written in the spirit of it and in conformity to its methods.
E. G. B.
New Haven, September, 1901.
