text:  The author concludes his introduction with a very bad reason for his partiality to modern masters and it is put in most ambitious language very readily learned in the "Fudge School "--a style of language with which our author is very apt to indulge himself; but the argument it so ostentatiously clothes and which we hesitate not to call a bad one is nothing more than this (if we understand it )--that the dead are dead and cannot hear our praise; that the living are living and therefore our love is not lost; in short as a _non-sequitur_ "that if honour be for the dead gratitude can only be for the living