THE RENDERING OF THANKS
To Mr. Austin Dobson and his publishers, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trübner & Co., Ltd.
To Mr. R.A. Streatfeild, Mr. Henry Festing Jones, and Mr. A.C. Fifield, the publisher, for permission to make use of "The Note Books of Samuel Butler."
To Mr. W. Aldis Wright and Messrs. Macmillan for my quotations from "The
Letters of Edward FitzGerald."
To Mr. E.I. Carlyle, author of "The Life of William Cobbett."
To Sir Herbert Stephen and Messrs. Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge for permission to include verses from the "Lapsus Calami" of J.K. Stephen.
To Mrs. Hole, Mr. G.A.B. Dewar, and Messrs. George Allen & Co., for my quotations from Mr. Dewar's "The Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole."
To Messrs. Chatto & Windus for my extracts from the Works of Mark Twain.
To Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons for permission to make a quotation from "Mrs.
Brookfield and her Circle."
To Messrs. Constable & Co. for my raid on the "Letters of T.E. Brown."
To Messrs. George Bell & Son for the verses taken from C.S. Calverley's
"Fly Leaves."
To Mr. E.V. Lucas, prince of anthologists, for the liberal use I have made of his "Life of Charles Lamb."
To Mr. G.K. Chesterton, and his publishers, Messrs. Methuen, Mr.
Duckworth, Mr. J.M. Dent, and Mr. John Lane.
To Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. (the owners of the copyright) for permission to include letters of Thackeray to Mrs. Brookfield.
To Messrs. Gibbings & Co. for my extracts from the admirable translation of Sainte-Beuve.
And to all authors, living and dead, who have assembled in this place to entertain the sick and the weary.