" He probably thought he noticed a movement of surprise in me, for he accentuated and italicized these words.

I italicize this phrase because it will recur frequently, like the pull of the rope which gives the impetus to the swing.

I have italicized the phrase "expectation mingled with uncertainty" because it expresses in other terms the idea which I have sought to convey in the formula "foreshadowing without forestalling.

[The printer may venture to italicize the closing prediction, as we wish to bring it under the particular notice of school-committees and superintendents of education, who will see the fearful responsibility they incur by placing copies of Prescott's Histories, bound in sheep, in their school-libraries.]