on Many Subjects BY SAMUEL HARVEY REYNOLDS, M.A. LATE VICAR OF EAST HAM, ESSEX AND SOMETIME fellow AND TUTOR OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD WITH A PREFACE BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY London EDWARD ARNOLD 37 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND TO MY HUSBAND'S FRIENDS IT has been a labour of love with me to collect these papers; but I am not sure that they would have been published but for the wishes expressed by my husband's brother and my husband's friends. My special thanks are due to Professor Saintsbury, Mr. W. Stebbing, and the Rev. C. H. Daniel for much kind help and advice. I have also to thank the proprietors of the Times and of the Westminster Review for allowing me to republish the reviews which appeared in their pages, and Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. for leave to reprint the Preface to the School Edition of the Iliad in their Catena Classicorum Series. My husband wrote some 2,000 leaders for the Times between 1873 and 1896. He was very proud of his connexion with the great journal. He was content to accept it loyally with all the conditions indicated in the following paragraph which I found among his papers :-'A man must rise above even this form of selfishness if he would devote himself heartily to journalism. He must be content to be counted as nothing, in the future, as in the present, |