in the 'Forties BY DAVID MASSON ARRANGED FOR PUBLICATION AND ANNOTATED BY HIS DAUGHTER FLORA MASSON William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh and London 1908 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE. recent THE first, second, and fourth of these Papers are republished from numbers of 'Blackwood's Magazine'. The third-the Memoir of Mazzini-appeared in 'Macmillan's Magazine', April 1872, and is now included in this volume by the kind permission of Messrs Macmillan. The first and second Papers have been arranged for publication from my father's manuscripts, and were written by him apparently between the years 1881 and 1886, with some additions of a later date. The Memoir of Mazzini, written immediately after Mazzini's death in 1872, has been included because my father's friend |