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Preface vii, line 7, for till read whilst; p. 14, 1. 6, for gaite read gaiété ; p. 14, 1. 20, read méchanceté and sated; p. 33, 1. 6, read mieux; p. 50, 1. 14, read galloping; p. 51, note at foot, "see life of Swift;" p. 54, 1. 18, read probably not true, instead of as at present; p. 59, line 19, read" of the mountains ;" p. 58, 1. 23, read left the sea; p. 62, 1. 11, read revenons; p. 82, 1. 14, read Judæus; p. 109, 1. 26, read "structure rather than of function;" p. 113, 1. 23, read "one people;" p. 118, 1. 28, read "most convinced;" p. 119, 1. 10, omit "if;" p. 120, 1. 16, read "probable or possible" instead of as at present; p. 129, 1. 27, read "lurid;" p. 135, 1. 5, add "to time ;" p. 142, 1. 4, read "scorn;" p. 147, l. 11, read "Theodore;" p. 147, 1. 21 and 25, read "Chretien and nouveaux ;" p. 149, 1. 1, for exuno disce omnes, read all on the same lines;" p. 154, 1. 21, read "far less;" p. 164, 1. 8, read "almost the only;" p. 170, 1. 8, read "sagacious and excellent ;"'p.177, for better far l'Intemé, read on the principle of l'Intemé; p. 177. 1. 4, for Eyoyoiia read Emoжolía; p. 18,2 1. 16,read "rolling sea;" p. 183, 1. 13, read" arising bright;" p. 191, last line omit "a;" p. 193, 1. 11, read for authority "plausibility;" p. 193, 1. 14, for breeze read "air;" p. 195, read "line of battle ship steering" p. 214, 1. 24, read "Tangier to water;" p. 215, 1. 4, for universal read "unusual;" p. 229, 1. 1, for "don't take that on your salvation," read "don't be too sure of that ;" p. 232, read "nor our old divines, nor Addison, Swift, &c. &c."

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NOTE.-In consequence of the author not being in England to watch the work in its progress through the press, many errors have unavoidably occurred-the reader will understand the difficulty consequent thereon, and pardon their appearance in the volume.