Preface
_ PAUSANIAS, THE SPARTAN.
An Unfinished Historical Romance
BY
THE LATE LORD LYTTON
EDITED BY HIS SON
Dedication
TO
THE REV. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, D.D.
CANON OF ELY,
AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
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MY DEAR DR. KENNEDY,
Revised by your helpful hand, and corrected by your accurate scholarship, to whom may these pages be so fitly inscribed as to that one of their author‘s earliest and most honoured friends,[1] whose generous assistance has enabled me to place them before the public in their present form?
It is fully fifteen, if not twenty, years since my father commenced the composition of an historical romance on the subject of Pausanias, the Spartan Regent. Circumstances, which need not here be recorded, compelled him to lay aside the work thus begun. But the subject continued to haunt his imagination and occupy his thoughts. He detected in it singular opportunities for effective

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