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presenting to the public a complete and thoroughly revised Edition of the Cambridge Prize Poems from 1813 to 1858 inclusive, the publisher has much pleasure in acknowledging the valuable assistance which he has received from many of the Authors, who have corrected and revised their productions.

As these Poems comprise the early efforts of many whose names are now the chief ornaments of the University, and who have since distinguished themselves in various branches of Literature and Science, they will be read with great interest by those now placed in the position which these illustrious men once occupied, and it is hoped the general excellence of the work as a whole will make it an acceptable souvenir of their alma mater.