various that his literary remains were bound to cover a wide field.
Nevertheless it will be found that several of the subjects to which
he devoted much time and labour are not represented in these pages.
I have not thought it necessary to reprint any of the numerous
pamphlets and articles which he wrote upon the Iliad and Odyssey,
since these were all merged in "The Authoress of the Odyssey," which
gives his matured views upon everything relating to the Homeric
poems. For a similar reason I have not included an essay on the
evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which he printed in
1865 for private circulation, since he subsequently made extensive
use of it in "The Fair Haven."

Two of the essays in this collection were originally delivered as
lectures; the remainder were published in The Universal Review
during 1888, 1889, and 1890.

I should perhaps explain why two other essays of his, which also
appeared in The Universal Review, have been omitted.

The first of these, entitled "L'Affaire Holbein-Rippel," relates to
a drawing of Holbein's "Danse des Paysans," in the Basle Museum,
which is usually described as a copy, but which Butler believed to
be the work of Holbein himself. This essay requires to be
illustrated in so elaborate a manner that it was impossible to
include it in a book of this size.

The second essay, which is a sketch of the career of the sculptor
Tabachetti, was published as the first section of an article
entitled "A Sculptor and a Shrine," of which the second section is
here given under the title, "The Sanctuary of Montrigone." The