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dealing with topics, educational and other, in which I was interested.

It

A retrospect of the past forty years fills me not unreasonably with a very large measure of content. While it represents a good deal of hard work it also recalls the memory of many congenial friendships, and of much enjoyment which has left no after-taste of bitterness. is accompanied by a consciousness of having been engaged in important work, of having tried with more or less success to do it, and of having retired from it physically and mentally sound, before the capacity of enjoyment was exhausted. The result of it all is that, were it possible to put back the hands of the clock, I should cheerfully go through it again.

I do not forget that some one has said that a great (meaning large) book is a great evil. It falls to the lot of few to be the author of a great book. My ambition takes no such lofty flight. It would have been easy to make this one larger, but it is probably large enough for all the really useful matter it contains. I have put down, as they occurred to me, such a selection of my experiences - some perhaps useful, others amusing-as might be fairly readable. If I have succeeded in this, and

especially if I have said anything that may be useful to teachers or to the younger members of the inspectorate, I shall not regret the employment I have made of my leisure. now for the present I lay down my pen.

And

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