Excerpt from Studies in Little-Known Subjects As is almost inevitable in collecting in one volume Essays that have been spread over a good many years, here and there will be found trifling repetitions. But they are, I think, not very frequent; occurring chiefly in the two papers upon Bruno and in the two sections of the paper on the Census. In these, writing on the same subjects for quite distinct classes of readers, I have had necessarily to go, to some extent, over the same ground. I prefer, however, incurring the charge of occasionally repeating myself to that of obscurity, which might with some justice arise were I to remove illustrations or examples originally appended for the elucidation of passages requiring explanation. It only remains for me here to thank those editors of the periodicals in which the Essays originally appeared, for their courtesy in allowing me to reprint them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.