PREFACE. THE Essays and Literary Remains of the late Professor Goldstücker, which are here presented to the public in a collected form, have been several years in type, awaiting their completion by the addition of a memoir of the author which had been promised by one of his oldest and most valued friends. Uninterrupted engagements, however, of a public and literary character having hitherto retarded the fulfilment of that promise, the publishers consider that the issue of these volumes ought no longer to be delayed, and they have therefore thought it right to substitute in the place of the memoir such a sketch, however inadequate, of the late Professor Goldstücker's life and b |