BY JOHN STUART BLACKIE, F.R.S.E. PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH DEAR SIR,--As the substance of this book was originally delivered in the form of Lectures before the Royal Institution, London, I was naturally led, in giving my notes a more exact expression and a larger illustration, to do so in connexion with your name--a name which, besides its official significance in all that concerns the Albemarle Street Institution, was recommended to me by that remarkable combination of rare experience of life, enlightened scholarship, and various knowledge of men and places, which, more than the greatest metaphysical acuteness, or the most extensive academical learning, enables a ma…
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