PREFATORY NOTICE

THE two attempts, which follow, to bring before the mind St. John Chrysostom and the Blessed Theodoret in their personal, and especially their ethical aspect, are portions of a projected volume, which was to have included like sketches of St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, perhaps St. Athanasius, as history presents them to us. This volume, which was to have been entitled “Ancient Saints,” I have at length reluctantly given up the hope of completing.

The notice of St. John Chrysostom is reprinted from the pages of the Rambler of 1859–60.