CHRIST CnURCH, OXFORD. Stradbroke Vicarage, Suffolk, February, 1865.
P.S. I feel it due to many of my readers to offer some explanation of the long delay which has taken place since the publication of this work on St. John began. An interval of almost five years has elapsed between the publication of the first four chapters and of the fifth and sixth. This delay, I am afraid, has caused incon- venience and annoyance in many quarters. For this I am unfeignedly sorry.
But the delay has been unavoidable, and has arisen from circumstances entirely beyond my own control. Deaths, domestic anxieties, illness, and change from one residence to anotlier, have had much to do with it. Tho