_To be presented, with the permission of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Helsingfors, for public criticism in the hall of the Hist.-Philol. Section on May 12:th 1923, at 12 o’clock._ The completion of this book has been retarded by circumstances unforeseen in the winter of 1914, when I collected most of its materials. I have not, since then, had any opportunity of visiting England, and have thus been unable to augment and verify these materials--which must account for what incompleteness and inaccuracy there may be found in the text as well as in the notes. For the same reason I have been compelled strictly to limit the range of my study, and to des…
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