nowise connected, except in so far as the Exhibition suggested the publication of the book. I can claim for them no higher title than " Gossip," and as such they are offered, as little more than a 'compilation,' to those who take an interest in Portraits. Salisbury, April, 1866. W. F. T. GOSSIP ABOUT PORTRAITS. ERRATA. p. 10, for Christie, read Christy. p. 156, for topography, read typography. "But in the course of one revolving moon, Was Chymist, Fiddler, Statesman, and Buffoon." an assertion however that M. Lartet or Sir C. Lyell, with their experience of early civilization and aboriginal races, might be disposed to controvert. I am not going to enter into this argument, and only refer to it as an example of the practice of beginning all treatises by showing the immense anti B |