Excerpt from Last Essays: First Series, Essays on Language, Folklore and Other Subjects

These Essays were selected by my father for republication just as his illness assumed its last acute form; therefore they have not had the advantage of the thorough revision he would have given them had his life been spared. He generally added largely to his articles before he republished them, and that such had been his intention in the present case could be seen from the copious notes that he had prepared dealing with the subjects of some of the articles to be republished; but, unfortunately, none of these notes were sufficiently worked out to be used by any hand but his.

The Lecture on Coincidences, which was a subject that greatly exercised his thoughts, would have been expanded; indeed I find that he had collected materials for that purpose sufficient to fill a small volume.

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