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Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk





The Humour of Homer and Other Essays




Introduction
By R. A. Streatfeild


The nucleus of this book is the collection of essays by Samuel
Butler, which was originally published by Mr. Grant Richards in 1904
under the title Essays on Life, Art and Science, and reissued by Mr.
Fifield in 1908. To these are now added another essay, entitled
"The Humour of Homer," a biographical sketch of the author kindly
contributed by Mr. Henry Festing Jones, which will add materially to
the value of the edition, and a portrait in photogravure from a
photograph taken in 1889--the period of the essays.

[Photograph of Samuel Butler. Caption reads: From a photograph