FREE use has been made of the various authorities consulted in the preparation of this little volume, and, in many instances, without the usual acknowledgmentan intentional omission, for the cause that, independently of the disfiguring effect of numerous quotation marks, a too minute and too frequent repetition of reference might give a character to the contents more suggestive of a load than a "lift.”

This explanation is necessary, mixed up as the original matter is with the portions referred to; and is especially made, lest the absence of the customary distinctive tokens be attributed to other than the real motives.