Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:

Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

In 1822 this volume appeared in a second edition ( really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, it cost him little reflection to mow down the first crop to the ground ).

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

The preface to the second volume of his History of the Saracens is dated from Cambridge Castle, where he lay a prisoner for debt.

But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.

The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.

It also added a second preface by the author, but the original foreword by Trivers was dropped.

The new edition added a second preface, a chapter about his life up to 1846, a chapter concerning the post-war period ( ending with his 1884 retirement from the army ), several appendices, portraits, improved maps, and an index ( 1886 edition:

A second edition of Pope's Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it.

Honigmann elaborated these arguments, both in his preface to the second Arden edition of King John, and in his 1982 monograph on Shakespeare's influence on his contemporaries.

Other than the new sub-title, all that is added is, a preface to the second edition and a 37-page afterword relating the book's content to the 2000 US presidential election.

They added a " second edition preface " endorsement by Lin Biao, dated 16 December 1966 ( which was torn-out following Lin Biao's death and public disgrace in September 1971 ).

However Gollancz feared the second half would offend Left Book Club readers and inserted a mollifying preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

Two months later, in January 1595, Barnfield published his second volume, Cynthia, with certain Sonnets, and the legend of Cassandra, and this time signed the preface, which was dedicated, in terms which imply close personal relations, to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

Du Bellay replied to his various assailants in a preface to the second edition ( 1550 ) of his sonnet sequence Olive, with which he also published two polemical poems, the Musagnaeomachie, and an ode addressed to Ronsard, Contre les envieux fioles.

Malebranche replied in a short preface added to that second volume, and then, in the 1678 third edition, he added 50 % to the already considerable size of the book with a sequence of ( eventually ) seventeen Elucidations.

In the second preface to the Fragments philosophiques, in which he candidly states the varied philosophical influences of his life, Cousin speaks of the grateful emotion excited by the memory of the day in 18 .., when he heard Laromiguière for the first time.

The preface to the second edition ( 1833 ) and the third ( 1838 ) aimed at a vindication of his principles against contemporary criticism.

Also as a scholar, Arbuthnot took up an interest in antiquities and published Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins ; reduced to the English standard in 1705, 1707, 1709, and, expanded with a preface ( which indicated that his second son, Charles, was born in 1705 ), in 1727 and 1747.

It has also been termed less accurately Cranmer's Bible, since Thomas Cranmer was not responsible for the translation, and his preface first appeared in the second edition.

The second edition of 1540, included a preface by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, recommending the reading of the scriptures.

" My greatest trouble ," he says in the preface to the second edition of his Einleitung, " I had to bestow on a hitherto unworked field -- on the investigation of the inner nature of the Old Testament with the help of the Higher Criticism ( not a new name to any humanist ).

Hermann's attack may have provoked the supplement to the preface to the Hecuba, in the second edition published at Cambridge in 1802.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

As his preface states, this volume was not part of that series, but rather his own reflections on the subject.

" For his part, MacDonald wrote an admiring preface to Night Shift, and even had his famous character, Travis McGee, reading Cujo in one of the last McGee novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.

This was intended to be part of a preface by Tolkien to George MacDonald's famous fairy story " The Golden Key ".

This edition is separated into 4 parts, containing 51, 43, 51, and 21 stories, respectively, for a total of 166, minus two ( part 2, story 35 and part 4, story 6 ), omitted because of their being almost identical to those of Marguerite the Navarre's Heptameron ( stories 30 and 17 ), respectively, though keeping Bandello's dedicatory preface.

The great undertaking was supported by liberal subscriptions, and Walton's political opinions did not deprive him of the help of the Commonwealth ; the paper used was freed from duty, and the interest of Cromwell in the work was acknowledged in the original preface, part, of which was afterwards cancelled to make way for more loyal expressions towards that restored monarchy under which Oriental studies in England immediately began to languish.

In the preface of the novel he notes that the story originally came from a desire on his part to write a detective story where the principal character, the villain, is ignorant of who the detective is.

However, De naturis rerum itself was written as a preface to Neckam's commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, itself a part of a wider programme of biblical commentary encompassing the Song of Solomon and the Psalms, representing the three branches of wisdom literature.

Bernard Field, in the preface to his " History of Science Fiction ", cited Scipio's vision of the Earth as seen from a big height as a forerunner of modern science fiction writers describing the experience of flying in orbit-particularly noting the similarity between Scipio's realization that Rome is but a small part of the Earth with similar feeling by characters in Arthur C. Clarke's works.

As one reviewer claims, the preface which is merely a disclaimer of sorts, " is by no means the least important part of it ".

The preface reads in part ( translated ):

When Eliot considered publishing the poem as the opening part of The Waste Land, Pound discouraged him from doing so saying, " I do not advise printing Gerontion as preface.

The first and most obvious connection to William Shakespeare is presented by Horace Walpole himself, in the preface to the second edition of Otranto, in which he " praises Shakespeare as a truly original genius and the exemplar of imaginative liberty, as a part of a defense of Otranto's design ".

* Memoirs ( London, 1726-1727 ), and in particular the preface to part I.

Summis desiderantes affectibus was published as part of the preface of the book, signaling papal approval for the work.

He was the author of responsa and novellæ which were published with a preface by his grandson Yom-Tov ( Venice, 1694 ), and he mentions also a second part, of which nothing more is known ( Machon Yerushalayim has published more of his responsa in 1979 )..

Most of our knowledge of the Cyclic epics comes from a broken summary of them which serves as part of the preface to the famous 10th-century CE Iliad manuscript known as Venetus A.

In his preface to the second part Albo delivers a sermon on the subject of his critics: " He that would criticize a book should, above all, know the method employed by its author, and should judge all the passages on a certain subject as a whole.

Eekhoud for his part wrote the preface of De Haan's sadomasochistical novel Pathologieën (= Pathologies, 1908 ).

Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker, but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier, Nietzsche dedicated the original 1878 edition of Human, All Too Human “ to the memory of Voltaire on the celebration of the anniversary of his death, May 30, 1778 .” Instead of a preface, the first part originally included a quotation from Descartes ’ Discourse on the Method.

The pages containing the foreword and preface ( and other front matter ) are typically not numbered as part of the main work, which usually uses Arabic numerals.

In the 1895 preface Hardy wrote, " The scene of the action was suggested by two real spots in the part of the country specified, each of which has a column standing upon it.

A sonnet of Grahame's was published as part of the preface to the Tragicall Death of Sophonisba, by David Murray, Scoto-Brittaine, John Smethwick, London ( 1611 ).