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SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL

ESSAYS.

REPRINTED FROM REVIEWS,

WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

THIRD SERIES.

BY A. HAYWARD, ESQ., Q.C.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1874.

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may have read these Essays as they originally appeared in the shape of Articles, the writer begs leave to state that large additions (to the amount of nearly a third as they stand) have been made to three: the first, the third, and the fifth.