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Excerpt from Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. 1: July 1907-April 1908 It is only due to the memory of our former associates that their names should be here recalled, but I have no desire to moralise upon the old theme of Are longa, vita brevis, although it naturally suggests itself. The fact that so many eminent men have found a subject of serious study in the language, history, and characteristics of the Gypsies, ought rather to serve as an incentive to those who are now following them in the same lines of research, with all the manifest advantages to be derived from the work of their precursors. For there is, fortunately, in addi tion to the veterans of the old Society, a strong and vigorous con tingent ready to prosecute these studies still further, and haply to solve more than one question that has hitherto only been guessed at. This new series of our Journal will presumably differ in some details from the earlier series. But whatever its leading features may prove to be, it begins its career under the most favourable auspices, and needs no fortune-teller to predict its success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.