COMPILER'S NOTE.

I BEG to acknowledge the kindness and courtesy of the authors, publishers, and other owners of copyright who have so willingly granted me permission to use the numerous extracts which I selected. I have especially to thank Mr. George Allen for permitting me to take selections from Mr. Ruskin's works; Messrs. Chatto & Windus for poems by Dr. George MacDonald ; Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for permission to use poems by Lord Tennyson, Mr. Charles Tennyson Turner, and Miss Rossetti; Messrs. J. Nisbet & Co. for poems by Horatius Bonar; and Messrs. Longmans & Co. for the use of the hymn "Lead, kindly light." If in any case I have, by mistake, omitted to obtain permission to use an extract, the copyright of which has not expired, I trust that the oversight will be forgiven.

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