THE RICE INSTITUTE PAMPHLET
Vol. XLVII
January, 1961
No. 4
FOREWORD
AS MANY of our readers know, the name of the Rice
ɪɪ Institute was changed on July 1, 1960, to William
Marsh Rice University. At this conclusion of Volume Forty-
Seven, therefore, the name of this journal must become The
Rice University Pamphlet.
Another, more major, change is also in store for The
Pamphlet. As Rice University has assumed part of the re-
sponsibility for publication of The Journal of Southern His-
tory, and this month commences publication of Studies in
English Literature: 1500-1900, it is no longer possible, or in
a sense necessary, to continue the quarterly publication of
The Pamphlet.
This issue, therefore, closes forty-seven years of what we
believe to have been a distinguished quarterly publication.
Volume Forty-Eight of The Rice University Pamphlet will
be the first of a series of annual monographs.
For this reason, this committee has chosen to end Volume
Forty-Seven with a reissue of one of the most distinguished
and most famous papers ever published in The Pamphlet,
one that has for long been out of print, but never super-
seded: The Breviary of Aesthetic, by Benedetto Croce,
originally published in December, 1915, as Number Four of
Volume II.
T. N. Mabsh, Chairman
Committee on Publications