fancy and imagination, — fancy, "which is given to quicken and beguile the temporal part of our nature imagination to incite and support the eternal." "Blessings be with them-and eternal praise, I have scattered the poetry in this volume as a sower sowing seed. I aim at no classification, and am, indeed, anxious to avoid a historical arrangement of poetry, or anything that could resemble it; though, in making a selection which is to feed the fancy and imagination of the young, and which must include great names and great works, I have been compelled incidentally to travel over the same path as the historian of literature. Once again I have to express my gratitude to the numerous authors and publishers whose generosity has enabled me to prepare a book enriched by the work of living poets, and possessed, therefore, of an added interest and charm. My thanks are due to Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Browning, Mr. Keble, Mr. Barnes, Archbishop Trench, Barry Cornwall, and to many other authors and proprietors of copyright pieces; and also to Messrs. Longmans, Murray, Blackwood, Parker, Macmillan, Chapman, and many other publishers. FRANCES MARTIN. MARCH 12TH, 1866. W. Shakespeare iii., W. Wordsworth H. W. Longfellow 97 LXXXVI.-Julius Cæsar, act i., scene i. W. Shakespeare XCVI.-As you Like it, act i., sc. iii. -As you Like it, act ii., sc. i. -As you Like it, act ii., sc. iii. XCIX.-Battle of the Baltic. Anon. . 161 R. Herrick CXXI.-The Children's Heaven CXXVI.-The South Sea Isles CXXVII.-A Serenade 7. Milton 7. Moultrie |