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INTRODUCTION. :3leteness which the fasti~ioustless of criticism may deign to pass on hisnar;fllltive. As a post obitum work, which he has long been much inclinedto leave it, perhaps it would come with a better grace; but itmust then have failed entirely of what it may still want in a considerabledegre,e,~pevisal.Hehas doubled the rule which Horace prescribes,if t11at gpeatcritic'sprotectionwill aught avail him. At anyrate the reader obtains one SUlle benefit, reduction, as the result of proerastination.No ·defence against censure can be founded on the immaturityof the work,which ..certainly, however, no whereprofesses to givetheu€