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PREFACE BY MISS KATHARINE HILLARD

Author Of "The Doones Of Exmoor," In "Harper's Magazine," Vol. LXV. Page
835.

A novel that has stood the test of time so well as Mr. Blackmore's
charming story of "Lorna Doone" scarcely needs a preface. Certainly no
word of introduction is necessary to testify to its exquisite humor, its
dramatic force, its under-current of poetic feeling, its fine touches of
landscape-painting, and the novelty and interest of its subject. Since
it first appeared in 1869 all these have become as household words,