EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE favorable reception given to the first volume of the "Library of Old English Prose Writers" having encouraged the publishers to proceed with the enterprise, the Editor has now the satisfaction of presenting a second volume of the work, and at the same time of announcing that it will be succeeded by others with all possible despatch. As some misapprehension has been found to exist in regard to the character which this publication will assume, the Editor wishes to have it distinctly understood that it is not designed to be a theological work. It is not intended exclusively or primarily for clergymen ; but for the lovers of good learning generally. Some of the pieces to be incorporated in the series will doubtless be from the pens of the old English divines; but they will be inserted not be. |