PREFACE

THIS Volume is published in obedience to the wishes of Mr. J. A. SYMONDS, thus expressed: "There are three Essays upon English Blank Verse, printed in small type as an Appendix to my Sketches and Studies in Italy. In that place they have been entirely lost to sight and observation. They ought to be taken out and published separately in a small volume."

Sept. 1894.

HORATIO F. BROWN.