400 ST. MARK’S REST

with certain sources of the story of St. George.* But we have first to consider the dragon’s service.

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242. The Editor had hope of publishing this book a full year ago. He now in all humility, yet not in uncertainty, can sum the causes of its delay, both with respect to his friend and to himself, in the words of St Paul,

kai enekoyen hmaz SatanaV.¹

BRANTWOOD,

6th March, 1879.

* legonti d en kai qalassa

...Bioton afqiton

Inoi tetacqai ton olon amfi cronon.

-Pind. Ol., II. 51.

¹ [1 Thessalonians ii. 18 (“and Satan hindered us”). “A year ago” Ruskin had been taken seriously ill.]

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