The array of notes and authorities on every page is not the best way to please an artistic eye; but in a book of this sort they are indispensable and would be certainly expected from the oldest living contributor to 'Notes and Queries.'
While there are many persons who enjoy a fox hunt, there are others would vote it a bore; and readers of this mind had better, perhaps, pass over the various stages of my chase after Samuel Turner, and come to something that may suit them better.
49 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin:
New Year's Day, 1892.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Vide England in the Eighteenth Century, vii. 211; viii. 42-44, 45, 191, 240, etc.
[2] See Froude's English in Ireland, vol. iii. sec. vi.
[3] I have been further encouraged by the very favourable judgment of an acute critic, the late Mr. Hepworth Dixon, regarding a book of mine, written on the same lines as the present. See Athenæum, No. 1649, pp. 744 et seq.