PREFACE

FOR permission to quote copyright matter my best thanks are due to Mrs. William Arnold, Mr. Henry T. Crofton, Mr. Edmund Gosse, Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, Mr. John Lane, Messrs. Longmans, Mr. Gilbert Murray, the Executors of the late Very Rev. Canon Northcote, the Rev. Father Puller, Mr. David MacRitchie (President of the recently resuscitated Gypsy-Lore Society), Mr. Philip Sidney, the Proprietors of The Times, and Messrs. Virtue. I tender my thanks also to the Editors of The Spectator and The Westminster Gazette for leave to reprint verse that originally appeared in their respective newspapers. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Henry Crofton and Mr. Philip Norman for their kindness in reading the proof-sheets of the sections of my book which refer to the Gypsies and to Civic Pageants. For similar help in proof-reading I likewise offer grateful thanks to Lady Ritchie and Mr. Frederick

Greenwood. To the courtesy of the authorities of the Bodleian Library I owe my acquaintance with the Civil War tract on Prince Rupert's dog, Boy; and I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to the authorities of the London Library for help in regard to the use of their books. Among my acknowledgments I wish to include thanks to the printers for their very skilful manipulation of a troublesome manuscript.

September 12, 1907.