VICAR OF WAKEFIELD EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MICHAEL MACMILLAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1897 All rights reserved Edue T 834.510.560 HARVARD COLLEGE OCT 17 1919 LIBRARY GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. PREFACE IN preparing this edition of The Vicar of Wakefield I have derived valuable assistance from the MS. notes of Mr. Harold Littledale, which he most kindly placed at my disposal. In making this acknowledgment, I cannot refrain from expressing my regret that he did not himself undertake the work of editing Goldsmith's prose masterpiece, a work for which he is eminently qualified by his thorough knowledge of the literature of the period. |