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QUEST AND VISION

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D2729

1892

Works by the Same Author.

THE THRESHOLD OF MANHOOD.
A YOUNG MAN'S WORDS TO YOUNG MEN.
Sixth Thousand. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

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.
Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

A VISION OF SOULS: with other Ballads and

Poems.

Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.

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"This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air; thence I have followed it,
Or it hath drawn me rather :-but 'tis gone.
No, it begins again!"-Tempest, Act I., Scene 2.

HODDER

London

AND STOUGHTON

27, PATERNOSTER ROW

MDCCCXCII

Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

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PREFACE.

HIS little book was first published in the

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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

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