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Show ITUIIOTT,...I1' ROa.AilT & ROlli !'to! ••• U..._.JID tTr&. .u.o , n .._ r,.r• roc. . .,. .. ,, PREFACE. TrrE sc nes of this slory, as ile title inuicntc~, lie among u ra e hitherto ignored by the M'!Ocitltions of polit nntl r fined ocicly; tul exotic rnco, whoso ancrslors, hom hen!'nlh n lrt>pic ~un, hroughl "ith tb m, anti pcrpetunlr<l to their ilc cenunnL~, n charnctcr RO --entiully unlike the hnrrl nnd dominnnl Anglo-. '·txon nlce, tl~ for mnny years to hnvo won from it only misundcr,t.mding uml contempt. But, another an<l hell r ilny i~ dtlwning; every inOu nee of lill•rnturc, of poetry nnd of ttr!, in our tim ·•, is h comin~t more unu mor in uni<on with the b'~'CUl mt~.>tcr chord of 'hristianily, "good will to mun." The po t, the paint r, nnd the nrti t, now seck out anti cmhclli•h the common tm<l g •utter humunitie~ of life, nntl, un•lcr th 111lur mcnL~ of fiction, •• |