to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
The following eminent scholars, representing Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and france, kindly consented to serve on the Advisory Board:
Edward Capps, Ph.D., of Princeton University.
Maurice Croiset, Member of the Institut de France.
Otto Crusius, Ph.D., Litt.D., of the University of Munich, Member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Science.
Hermann Diels, Ph.D., of the University of Berlin, Secretary of the Royal Academy of Science, Berlin.
J. G. Frazer, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D., of Cambridge University.
A. D. Godley, M.A., Public Orator of the University of Oxford.
William G. Hale, Ph.D., of Chicago University.
Salomon Reinach, Member of the Institut de France.
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