PREFACE.
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Reading Jane’s Letters.      Chap 34.

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PRIDE.

and

PREJUDICE


by

Jane Austen,


with a Preface by

George Saintsbury
and

Illustrations by

Hugh Thomson


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House.

      


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London

George Allen.


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To J. Comyns Carr

in acknowledgment of all I

owe to his friendship and

advice, these illustrations are

gratefully inscribed


Hugh Thomson

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PREFACE.
Walt Whitman has somewhere a fine and just distinction between “loving

by allowance” and “loving with personal love.” This distinction applies

to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very

numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it

brings a curious consequence with it. There is much more difference as

to their best work than in the case of those others who are loved “by

allowance” by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and

proper thing to love them. And in the sect—fairly large and yet

unusually choice—of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be

found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the

novels. To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger