The agreeable duty of preparing a new edition of this little work (which has met with support and approval beyond its merits and my expectations), has been rendered doubly pleasurable from the kind assistance which has been voluntarily tendered by many gentlemen whose names are prominently connected with the movement I have endeavoured to describe.<br><br>In dealing (however superficially), with the lives and works of many eminent men now living, or but recently passed away, a few errors in facts or dates were inevitable; these have been corrected with the utmost care. The chapter on the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti has been rendered much more complete by the insertion of interesting information kindly supplied me by his brother, Mr. William Michael Rossetti; and I have also borrowed a few notes from Mr. T. Hall Caine's Reminiscences of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a work which I can heartily commend to all.who take an interest in the career of that singular man of genius, and the great artistic movement he originated.<br><br>The Earl of Southesk has favoured me with some notes about bis curious poem, Jonas Fisher; and to Lady Wilde I am greatly indebted for the very complete account I am enabled to offer of the career of her son, Mr. Oscar Wilde, about whom, at present, considerable curiosity exists, both at home and in the United States.<br><br>For other valuable assistance I beg to offer my grateful acknowledgments to the Rev. T. W. Carson, of Dublin; Mr. F. W. Crawford; and Mr. Jonathan Carr, of Bedford Park. Nor has their friendly assistance benefited me only, it has enabled me to offer the public a more complete, and more authentic account of the. Æsthetic Movement than has yet been written, and to correct many misapprehensions which have existed concerning its origin and its aims.<br><br>I have used the title Æsthetic Movement, little as I like it, because it is generally accepted and understood, although it incorrectly describes what might be more correctly styled, a Renaissance of Mediæval Art and Culture.