HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY SHELDON FUND Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1890, by GINN & COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A. PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A. PREFATORY NOTE. THE following selections are given, in all but a very few instances, without abridgment. Where omissions have been made, it has been done with the view of better adapting the work to school use. It is believed that all notes required for the full understanding of the poems have been subjoined. D. H. M. |