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Copyright, 1899, by Dodd, Mead & Co. MRS. OLIPHANT IN 1895. Printed by courtesy of the New York Tribune. ing piece of self-revelation. It not only enforces respect for a writer of singular ability and enormous industry, but it compels deep admiration for a tender and courageous woman struggling indomitably for those she loved. Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Oliphant. MRS. OLIPHANT wished that no biography of her should be written, but she left to the discretion of her nearest friends the disposition of the autobiography set forth in this volume. It is disconnected and unfinished, and there are gaps of many years in the record, but its destruction would have been a loss to letters, for it is an uncommonly honest, vivid, and touch It is no doubt too soon to predict with certainty the fate of her writings. They were prodigious in quantity, and of quality uniformly |