I should, of course, have liked to deal with so large a matter in a larger space: but one may and should "cultivate the garden" even if it is not a garden of many acres in extent.

I need only add that I have endeavoured, not so much to give "reviews" of individual books and authors, as to indicate what Mr.
Lanier took for the second part of his title, but did not, I think, handle very satisfactorily in his text.
I may perhaps add, without impropriety, that the composition of this book has not been hurried, and that I have taken all the pains I could, by revision and addition as it proceeded, to make it a complete survey of the Novel, as it has come from the hands of all the more important novelists, not now alive, up to the end of the nineteenth century.
GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
_Christmas_, 1912.
CONTENTS CHAP.
I.THE FOUNDATION IN ROMANCE II.

FROM LYLY TO SWIFT III.

THE FOUR WHEELS OF THE NOVEL WAIN IV.

THE MINOR AND LATER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL V.SCOTT AND MISS AUSTEN VI.