MISCELLANIES 65-0-411 BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, M.D., SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR, BY HIS SON. LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. BRISTOL: I. ARROWSMITH. 1871. EDITOR'S PREFACE. IN preparing the following Volume for the Press I have found it difficult to make such a selection of my father's works as should interest the general public, and at the same time do justice to his professional and scientific reputation. To combine in one book a Treatise on Esthetics, with a Course of Lectures on Headache, or an Analytical Essay upon Tetanus would have been impossible. The only course open to me, therefore, was to omit all strictly medical articles, confining myself to works of pure literature, and to such scientific studies as had a general philosophical or social interest. I am aware that by following this principle of selection I have rendered the Volume less valuable to physicians; but I have the satisfaction of reflecting that more public attention may be attracted to the products of a singularly versatile and elegant, as |