_Silver Library Edition_, _January 1895_; _Reprinted March 1897_, _July 1899_, _August 1903_. _Gentlemen,—In the volume now in your hands_, _the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime_, _with which it is your glory to have contended_. _It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit_. _Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain_, _where crime preserves some features of nobility_, _and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation_. _Horror_, _in this case_, _is due to Mr. Parnell_: _he sits before posterity silent_, _Mr. Forster’s appeal echoing down the ages_. _Horror is due to ourselves_, _in that we have so long coquetted with political crime_…
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