“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,
Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum
Subjecit pedibus; strepitumque Acherontis avari.”
When you read her history in MS. you thought well of “StellaFregelius” and urged her introduction to the world. Therefore I ask you,my severe and accomplished critic, to accept the burden of a book for which youare to some extent responsible. Whatever its fate, at least it has pleased youand therefore has not been written quite in vain.
H. Rider Haggard.
Ditchingham,
25th A