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INTRODUCTION
" Manannan knew that the Druid poet had the old wisdom of the symbols."
— Fiona Macleod, The Dominion of Dreams, " Honey of the Wild Bees."
This work, reproduced by its authoress, the late Mrs Murray-
Aynsley, from the well-known articles originally contributed
by her to the Indian Antiquary^ is of special value to all
scientific students of iconosemic Symbolism, consisting as it
chiefly does, of a most interesting record of independent
personal researches, carried on during twenty years of travel,
in various and far-distant countries, by a writer singularly
well qualified by natural ability, and her traditionary culture,
to observe with intelligence, and in the spirit of truth and
soberness. Her father was the Rev. Frederick Manners
Sutton, of Kelham Hall, near Newark-on-Trent, a nephew
of Charles Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury,
father of the first Viscount Canterbury, and of Thomas
Manners Sutton, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and first Baron
Manners ;
the two brothers being grandsons of John, eleventh
Earl and third Duke of Rutland. Her mother was the Lady
Henrietta Barbara Lumley, daughter of Richard, seventh Earl
of Scarborough, Prebendary of York. Mrs Murray-Aynsley
thus inherited, on both the maternal and the paternal side, all
the potentiality of the thoroughly serviceable and trustworthy
intellectual and moral qualities she possessed in such felicitous
and prolific combination ;
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