I have to thank the editor and publisher of _The Athenæum_ for
permission to reprint the chapter on “Parallel Passages”; the editor
and publisher of _The Gownsman_ for permission to use “A Study in Fine
Art”; Professor Gollancz and Messrs. Chatto & Windus for permission to
reprint the section on “Cranford” which was written for an Introduction
to a reprint of that novel in “The King’s Classics.”