INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY
            THE EDITOR

TuE AIS. of "Dr. John Brown, a Bio-
graphy and a Criticism," came into my
hands on the death, in 1901, in his ninety-
first year, of my uncle, the late John
Taylor Brown. It is only just to his
memory that I should explain that the
MS. as I found it was unfinished, though
he was engaged on this, his labour of
love, to within a few days of his death.
Considerable portions of it had never
been finally revised by the biographer;
part of it was written, sometimes in
pencil hardly decipherable, on odd sheets
and half sheets, on old envelopes, news-
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