GEMS OF ENGLISH POETRY SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D.

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED BROADWAY HOUSE, CARTER LANE, E.C.

Tue Editor desires to acknowledge the courtesy of Sir Edwin Arnold and of Mr. Alfred Austin, for permission to include some of their poems in the Twenty-third Edition of this work. His thanks are also dne to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., for permission to include Robert Browning's poem, "Hervé Riel;" and to Messrs. Ellis & Elvey, tor permission to include three poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

October, 1896.