Excerpt from Life of Beato Angelico Da Fiesole, of the Order of Friar-Preachers
Dear Sir,
I should have been happy to accede to your request by writing a Preface to the "Life of Beato Angelico da Fiesole." No subject would have been more congenial to my feelings in every way. An "Artist Saint" affords scope for much, which scarcely any other subject could embrace and combine. It is a delicious theme, and inexhaustible.
Unfortunately before you spoke to me, I had already engaged myself to the full extent of my leisure and my strength. I need not specify what I had undertaken, and have been striving to accomplish. But I can fay, with truth, that I would have readily complied with your request, had I been able to fee my way to the work required, within a reasonable time.
I can, therefore, only give you this expression of my bell wishes, in the sincere hope that a work as interesting as that of M. Cartier will be heartily welcomed by readers of every class, without any special recommendation from me. Standing purely on its own merits, it ought to prove eminently successful.
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