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DEDICATION.


DEAR MR. AUGUSTIN DALY,

May I write your name on the dedication page of this new edition of an
old and pleasant book in token of our common interest in the people and
the periods of which it treats, and as a small proof of our friendship?

Sincerely yours,
JUSTIN HUNTLY M'CARTHY.

LONDON, _July, 1890._




CONTENTS.


PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION p. xi
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION p. xxv
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION p. xxix