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OCT 81941

Copyright, 1894,
BY JOSEPH KNIGHT.

University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

ZOCIELA

Dedicated

ΤΟ MY FRIEND AND FELLOW-SMOKER,

WALTER MONTGOMERY JACKSON.

PREFACE.

HIS is an age of anthologies.

THIS

Collections of

poetry covering a wide range of subjects have appeared of late, and seem to have met with favor and approval. Not to the busy man only, but to the student of literature such compilations are of value. It is sometimes objected that they tend to discourage wide reading and original research; but the overwhelming flood of books would seem to make them a necessity. Unless one has the rare gift of being able to sprint through a book, as Andrew Lang says Mr. Gladstone does, it is surely well to make use of the labors of the industrious compiler. Such collections are often the result of wide reading and patient labor. Frequently the larger part is made up of single poems, the happy and perhaps only inspiration of the writer, gleaned from the poet's corner of the newspaper or the pages of a magazine. This is specially true of the present compilation, the first on the subject aiming at

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