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18 INTBODUCTORY ESSAY.

in that of Mr Gosse, and which are not printed here.
And it still remains true that in order to obtain the
whole of Gray's works, it is necessary to have recourse
to several distinct publications. If, for example, we
wish to read all Gray's notes of foreign travel we
must read one part of his Journal in Prance in Mr
Gosse's edition (vol. I. pp. 237—246), another part
in the present volume; the journal in Italy in the
present volume; and the Criticisms on Architecture
and Painting during a Tour in Italy in Mitford's
Aldine edition (vol. iv. pp. 225—305). Generally
speaking, I give nothing of Gray's which has been
before printed; the letters to John Chute which
will be found below, and which Mr Chaloner Chute
most kindly allows me to publish, have been re-
cently printed by him in his 'History of the Vyne';
but none of these have appeared in any edition of
the poet's remains. In a search made under difficulties
and at rare intervals, it is likely that I have not seen
all that it would be worth while to edit; yet I do
not edit all that I haw seen; there must be some
limit to what is called literature; for instance, there is
a copy in the British Museum of Verral's cookery¹,
with Gray's MS. notes; and these I did not transcribe.
I was indeed glad to discover from this book what
(such is the ignorance of man) I did not know before,

¹ It once belonged to Mitford. See his * Correspondence
of Gray and Mason,' p. 252 n.



	18 INTBODUCTORY ESSAY. in that of Mr Gosse, and which are not printed here. And it still remains true that in order to obtain the whole of Gray's works, it is necessary to have recourse to several distinct publications. If, for example, we wish to read all Gray's notes of foreign travel we must read one part of his Journal in Prance in Mr Gosse's edition (vol. I. pp. 237—246), another part in the present volume; the journal in Italy in the present volume; and the Criticisms on Architecture and Painting during a Tour in Italy in Mitford's Aldine edition (vol. iv. pp. 225—305). Generally speaking, I give nothing of Gray's which has been before printed; the letters to John Chute which will be found below, and which Mr Chaloner Chute most kindly allows me to publish, have been re- cently printed by him in his 'History of the Vyne'; but none of these have appeared in any edition of the poet's remains. In a search made under difficulties and at rare intervals, it is likely that I have not seen all that it would be worth while to edit; yet I do not edit all that I haw seen; there must be some limit to what is called literature; for instance, there is a copy in the British Museum of Verral's cookery¹, with Gray's MS. notes; and these I did not transcribe. I was indeed glad to discover from this book what (such is the ignorance of man) I did not know before, ¹ It once belonged to Mitford. See his * Correspondence of Gray and Mason,' p. 252 n.