BY

MORTIMER COLLINS.

EDITED BY

EDMUND YATES.

WITH NOTES BY THE EDITOR AND MRS. MORTIMER COLLINS.

RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.

To

CHARLES READE,

Dramatist and Novelist,

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

BY

FRANCES COLLINS.

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The animosities perish: the humanities are eternal.'