This book contains not only all the latest amendments to the Bankrupt Act, with copious notes covering the latest English and American decisions, but it also has a prefatory chapter of "Hints to Persons contemplating Bankruptcy."

In the poem itself, and in the prefatory matter adjoined to it, Shelley takes critics very severely to task: but criticism has its discerning and temperate, as well as its 'stupid and malignant' phases.

At this point it will be well to insert a prefatory word or two as to the character of Mary Lamb; and here the witnesses are in accord.

By the late Charles Robert Leslie, R.A. Edited, with a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from his Correspondence, by Tom Taylor, Esq., Editor of the "Autobiography of Haydon."

With its prefatory note, indeed, its cheap illustrations, and its rather mechanical intrigue, it seems as far removed from such a book as A Life's Morning as it is possible for a novel by the same author to be.

How fine are those prefatory words, "by a Right Reverend Prelate," to that pioneer book in Anglo-Saxon lore, Elizabeth Elstob's grammar: "Our earthly possessions are indeed our patrimony, as derived to us by the industry of our fathers; but the language in which we speak is our mother-tongue, and who so proper to play the critic in this as the females?"

How many a prefatory argument issues virtually in this!

"The privilege of escaping from his prefatory dullness and prolixity.

His doctrines, which chiefly respect the intrinsic qualities necessary in poetry, are scattered, without system of pretence to it, over the numerous pages of prefatory and didactic essays, with which he enriched his publications.

An intelligence test with a prefatory note.

© on prefatory note & note entitled The text; 11Jul28; A1054977.

With a prefatory note by J. H. Hartz.

Written with a prefatory note by Alfred N. Whitehead.

With a prefatory letter by Charles Morgan.

© on new prefatory note; 12Mar20, A565236.

R110135, 10Apr53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) VENABLE, CLARKE. Fleetfin; with a prefatory note by Henry Van Dyke.

© on prefatory note & note entitled The text; 11Jul28; A1054977.

With a prefatory note by J. H. Hartz.

With a prefatory word by William Lyon Phelps.

With a prefatory letter by Charles Morgan.

By Joseph Addison, Richard Steele & Eustace Budgell, prefatory notes by W. M. Thackeray, illus.:

By Arthur Szyk, with a prefatory text by Struthers Burt.

Prefatory Note.

[PREFATORY NOTE.This Novel was carefully wrapped up in some odd leaves of MARK TWAIN'S Innocents Abroad, and was accompanied by a letter in which the author declared that the book was worth £3000, but that "to save any more blooming trouble," he would be willing to take the prize of £1000 by return of post, and say no more about it.

1886 PREFATORY NOTE From the best available sources have been gathered the following biographical particulars of a remarkable family of astronomersthe Herschels.