his death deprived me of the aid he would have given so gladly and I should have prized so highly in the preparation of this book. I mean Professor Charles Gross. My thanks are due also to Mr. Byrne Hackett and the Yale University Press for much help and unvarying courtesy and consideration. I cannot close this preface without referring to one whose interest in the fortunes of this volume and unselfish gratification at any favour it may ever chance to win would have been far deeper than any like feelings of my own. It would have been my highest privilege to dedicate this book to her: now I can only inscribe it with gratitude and love to her memory. Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey June, 1910 |