Works by the Same Author. THE THRESHOLD OF MANHOOD. THE MAKERS OF MODERN ENGLISH. A POPULAR HANDBOOK TO THE GREATER POETS OF THE CENTURY. Third Thousand. Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s. THE REDEMPTION OF EDWARD STRAHAN. A SOCIAL STORY. Third Thousand. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE. A VISION OF SOULS: with other Ballads and Poems. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. 92964 "This music crept by me upon the waters, HODDER London AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXCII PREFACE. HIS little book was first published in the THI year 1886, and has long been out of print. It is a temptation to an author when he sees a book of his marked in secondhand catalogues as "rare" and "scarce” to do what he can to prevent the scarcity, in the public interest as well as his own, but more particularly the latter. I am the further attracted to this experiment by the fact that the book has recently been re-discovered in the United States, and has there entered upon a new and fairly prosperous career. This edition may claim to be almost a new book, since the earlier essays have received careful correction, and the book is a third larger in bulk by the addition of the chapters on "George Meredith: His Method and His Teaching," and "The New Realism: Olive |