scholar.

In the same volume, page 191, is a copy of the will of Lope de Vega,
recently discovered, and obtained from the late Lord Holland.

In the same volume, pages 354-357, is a learned bibliographical note
upon the publication and various editions of the plays of Calderon.

In the third volume, Appendix B., pages 408-414, is a learned
bibliographical note on the Romanceros.

In the same volume, Appendix C., pages 419-422, is an elaborate note on
the Centon Epistolario, in reply to an article by the Marques de Pidal.

In the same volume, Appendix D., pages 432-434, is a new postscript on
the clever literary forgery, _El Buscapie_.

At the close of the third volume there are seven pages giving a brief
and condensed account of the several works connected with Spanish
literature which have been published within two or three years past, and
since the stereotype plates for the present work were cast.

The present edition is in a duodecimo, instead of an octavo form, and is
sold at a less price than the previous ones.

In the closing sentences of the preface to this edition, Mr. Ticknor
says: "Its preparation has been a pleasant task, scattered lightly over
the years that have elapsed since the first edition of this work was
published, and that have been passed, like the rest of my life, almost
entirely among my own books. That I shall ever recur to this task again,
for the purpose of further changes or additions, is not at all probable.
My accumulated years forbid any such anticipation; and therefore, with
whatever of regret I may part from what has entered into the happiness
of so considerable a portion of my life, I feel that now I part from it
for the last time. _Extremum hoc munus habeto_." This is a very natural
feeling, and gracefully expressed; but whatever of sadness there may be
in parting from a book which has so long been a constant resource, a
daily companion, may in this case be tempered by the thought that the
work, as now dismissed, is so well founded, so symmetrically
proportioned, so firmly built, as to defy the sharpest criticism--that
of Time itself.

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