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PREFACE.

The

THE following Essay is a reply to an article which appeared, some time ago, in the "Westminster Review "* on the character of Macbeth. Author of the present pamphlet does not consider the time that has elapsed since the appearance of that article as of any importance in affecting the value-such as it may be of the observations which he now offers in reply to the arguments of the Westminster Reviewer; seeing that it is no topic of a merely ephemeral nature, which forms the subject of the following pages, but one of which the interest must continue so

* Vol. 41.