courtesy. My obligations are generally acknowledged within the body of the work, but I must not in this place omit to thank Sir Henry Taylor, Mr. Theodore Watts, Dr. Gordon Hake, Dean Plumptre, Professor Dowden, Professor Armstrong, Mr. Somerville Gibney, Mr. Charles Kent, the Rev. William Barnes, Mr. W. A. Gibbs, Miss Mary Rowles, the Rev. A. R. Eagar, Mr. Herbert E. Clarke, Miss Christina G. Rossetti, Mr. William Sharp, Mr. S. C. Hall, Mr. Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Miss H. M. Burnside, Mr. Eden Hooper, the Rev. T. Ashe, Mr. Astley H. Baldwin, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Fannie Rochat, Miss Fanny Forrester, Miss A. Cazenove, and Miss Maria Havergal, the representative of the late Canon Havergal, for their kind contribution to my pages of poems hitherto unpublished; and Dean Gwynn, Professor Armstrong, Dr. Gordon Hake, and Mr. George Barlow for counsel and help ungrudgingly given. In a compilation containing nearly 1500 extracts, and representing more than 350 authors, it is possible that proprietorship of copyright may, in one or two cases, have been overlooked. I wish, therefore, by anticipation to tender my apologies for any inadvertent act of trespass. On being informed of unacknowledged obligations, I shall be only too glad to declare them in future editions of this book. FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE. September, 1883. ORIGINAL AND COPYRIGHT POEMS. THE following list comprises (1) original poems kindly contributed to these pages by various authors; and (2) verses written by the Editor and some four or five associates for the express and sole purpose of accompanying souvenir-cards. Many, but not all, of these latter pieces are now printed for the first time, while all are the copyright of Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons, the Publishers of this volume. |