Chapter I: Preface

With one exception, namely the last Paper in the Collection, which appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_, all these Essays were printed in the _St. James’s Gazette_ during the editorship of Mr. Greenwood. The Essay on “Architectural Styles” contains a summary of principles which I stated, some thirty years ago, in various Articles, chiefly in the _Edinburgh Review_. As this Essay now stands, I hope that readers, who have knowledge enough to enable them to judge, will find in it an example of the kind of criticism which I have advocated earlier in the volume.

COVENTRY PATMORE.

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