DRAMATIC AND HISTORICAL BY H. B. IRVING, M.A. Oxon. AUTHOR OF "LIFE OF JUDGE JEFFREYS," AND PROPERTY OF BOSTON SMALL MAYNARD & COMPANY 908 1572 1907 I PREFACE HAVE ventured to publish these occasional papers in the hope that the few who did me the honour of hearing or reading them may care to possess them in book form, and that to the many who have neither heard nor read them the subjects of which they treat may be sufficiently interesting in themselves to help to while away a leisure hour. H. B. IRVING. M298797 |