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PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

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SOME years have elapsed since the appearance of the first edition of the Memorials of Thomas Hood. rapidity with which that edition was exhausted might perhaps be urged as an argument for the earlier arrangement of the fresh issue. It was felt, however, that the work, especially in that portion which treated of Hood's earlier life, was incomplete, and that there was a probability of an accession of further materials throwing a light on that period.

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The justice of the conjecture has been proved by the important additions now made to the information about his early career. And if an excuse be needed for the delay in the production of this issue, it will be found in the fact that most interesting details have been supplied, even while the sheets were going through the press.

The abridgment of this edition consists only in the

exclusion of passages which touched on subjects common to letters addressed to different correspondents. Some notes, of no important bearing, have also been omitted. But to balance these curtailments some

most characteristic bits have been added.

In order to render the edition complete, views of places that are intimately connected with the Memoir are given: and it is believed, that there is now little or nothing to be added to this popular record of the life of a Poet, who is so widely loved by English—and English-speaking-people, as Thomas Hood.

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