It remains to add that no pains have been spared to make the texts of the excerpts and tracts in this Miscellany as accurate as possible—indeed, Mr. Arber's name is a sufficient guarantee of the efficiency with which this important part of the work has been done. For the modernisation of the spelling, which some readers may perhaps be inclined to regret, and for the punctuation, as well as for the elucidatory notes within brackets, Mr. Arber is solely responsible.
J. CHURTON COLLINS.
[1] See his Preface to his version of part of Virgil's second Aeneid.
[2] Whateley's Reminiscences of Bishop Copleston, p. 6.
[3] See Late Stuart Tracts.
[4] Wood's Life and Times, Clark's Ed. vol. ii. p. 240.
[5] See, for example, Diary, February 16th, 1668: 'Much discourse
about the bad state of the Church, and how the clergy are come to
be men of no worth in the world, and, as the world do now generally
discourse, they must be reformed.'
[6] For this information I am indebted to Mr. Paul Leicester Ford's
interesting monograph on the sayings of Poor Richard, prefixed to
his selections from the Almanack, privately printed at Brooklyn
in 1890.
[7] Introduction to his selections from the Almanack.