VICAR OF WAKEFIELD EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MICHAEL MACMILLAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED 1897 All rights reserved 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. |