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 PREFACE EREWITH I tender my thanks to the editors and proprietors of the Times, the Morning Post, the Daily Chronicle, the Westminster Gazette, Literature, the Graphic, Cornhill, Sphere, and other papers, for permission to reprint from their pages such of the following pieces of verse as have already been published.

Of the subject-matter of this volume which is in other than narrative form, much is dramatic or impersonative eveven where not