INTRODUCTION.

However, I have tried my best, and no one will welcome more cordially any light that others may shed on the passages I have misunderstood.

The edition of the original text was dedicated to my old friend Professor F. Max Müller, and it is a sincere gratification to me that this translation appears in the same volume as similar translations from his pen.

E. B. C.

CAMBRIDGE:
February 1, 1894.