Confessions of a book-lover

Part of the present volume appeared in Great Thoughts. Yet here am I, whose name is associated - ii at all - in the memory of readers with 'little thoughts,' and with booklets impudent in the slenderness of their matter, presumptuously stand ing forth to bow the public into the writer's presence, and essaying to introduce the one to the other.

The necessary explanation shall be brief. I must have been a young man, and Mr. E. Walter Walters a boy, when he and I last met; indeed I am not sure that I altogether remember him. But his father, who bore an honoured name, I well remember.

The Rev. W. D. Walters and my own dear and honoured father were personal friends; and when the former's son sent me a manuscript of a book, with the request that I should write an introduction, how could I do otherwise than accede, and express myself honoured by the invitation?

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