THE RENDERING OF THANKS

To Mr. Austin Dobson and his publishers, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench,

Trübner & Co., Ltd.

To Mr. R.A. Streatfeild, Mr. Henry Festing Jones, and Mr. A.C. Fifield,

the publisher, for permission to make use of "The Note Books of Samuel

Butler."

To Mr. W. Aldis Wright and Messrs. Macmillan for my quotations from "The

Letters of Edward FitzGerald."