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It requires no ordinary amount of courage, even in an author of established fame, to come before the public when he has long passed the age of three-score years and ten; yet here am I, who never wrote a line for publication, and never meant to do so, daring to make my first attempt in my eight and seventieth year. I should not have had the courage to venture on such an undertaking, had I not been urged by literary friends (who ought to have known better) to jot down some recollections of my earlier days, and to publish some of the Irish stories which from time to time, in my long life, I have heard.

In politics I have never taken any part, and I have tried, I hope successfully, to keep clear of them in what I have written.

I trust I have said nothing to hurt the feelings of any of my fellow-countrymen; and I leave it to a generous public to pardon the many faults and shortcomings of my first and only book.

W. R. LE FANU.

Summerhill, Enniskerry,

October, 1893.