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 must have an excuse. The only one I can offer is that many of these verses have already been refused (with charming tact) by reputable journals. According to the canons of one whose opinion I much value in these matters, that makes them all the more worthy of publication.

I wish I might include a poem by Lord Byron, which I passed off on this same critic as one of my own. He was gracious enough to remark, "Not bad for a beginner!" May he be as lenient towards these!

The publishers of the Isis and the Vanity have kindly allowed me to reprint some verses which they chaperoned in the first instance.

C. D. M.

November, 1912.