these lyric leaves are matchless in their beauty; full of playfulness, of fancy, and poetic feeling. Nothing has been admitted into these pages which can wound the many pure, bright eyes which the Editor trusts will read them. Not only have the works of standard authors been examined, but from many rare and ancient collections of fugitive pieces flowers have been culled which it were a shame to let wither or die in such little-frequented nooks as are haunted by, or are only accessible to, the enthusiastic bibliographer. As an Album derives a charm from the casy mingling of its contents, no formal classification of the Authors cited in this one has been made; but (1) The Index of Contents, (2) The Index of First Lines, and (3) The Index of Authors, afford ample facilities for ready reference. The DICTIONARY' is a feature which the Editor trusts will speak for itself. It is novel and copious, and he hopes it will prove useful to all the readers who come to con the book whilst meditating some love-thought, fancy, address, or dilemma.' Although there is great wealth in the special field where he has been working, the Editor cannot too strongly express his acknowledgments to all the Authors and Publishers who (during the years in which at intervals he has pursued his task) have allowed him, by the kind grant of 'permissions' in Modern Poetry, to make use of such pieces as he wished. Some of the Sweet Singers' have passed from earth since they wrote him in kindly, cordial words these permissions, and now all we have left of them is the heritage of 'immortal song.' It would make a long list to catalogue names; but amongst Publishers who have allowed the Editor (sometimes under special circumstances which they would wish to have noted make this case no precedent), he has specially to thank Messrs. Longman and Co., Richard Bentley, Esq., Messrs. Blackie and Son, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Messrs. Moxon and Co. by (the late) Edward Moxon, Esq., and (the late) John Taylor, Esq. J. H. INDEX OF TITLES. PAG13 ..J. Hong 97 184 .R. Jago 490 Frances A. Kemble 569 L. Frisbie 336 ..J. H. Campbell 312 E. B. Browning 561 ..J. Milton 553 37 Sir T. Wyatt 482 Lord Lansdowne 271 l'arry Cornwall 576 ..L. Aikin 271 ..R. Burns 18 .E. Sargent 359 ...T. Carer 597 .Ben Jonson 266 .... Keats 600 Eliza Cook 219 W. Wordsworth 171 ..C. Patmore 251 W. H. Burleigh 357 .....Gerald Massey 248 541 ...A. A. Watts 107 Thomson 321 From the Swedish 368 41 . Shenstone 257 Leigh Hunt 9 ... E. Waller 555 Sir T. Wyatt 482 226 ..C. G. Rossetti 592 T. Il. Bayly 557 616 ...T. Daris 614 ...J. Lylye 974 PAGE 248 ..D. Mulock 584 .T. Otway 262 Leigh Hunt 192 W. W. Lord 366 218 ....H. Taylor 93 ..J. S. Knowles 199 .C. J. Hofmann 346 .....N. Breton 411 ...F. S. Osgood 308 Sir G. Etherege 323 W. Cartwright 487 ..J. T. Field 360 Edgar A. Poe 577 40 W. Kno.r 74 506 ..Dr. Croly 616 ..L. E. L. 244 ..Mary Horitt 520 .Mrs. C. B. Wilson 450 Edgar A. Poe 547 .Beaumont and Fletcher 13 M. E. Heritt 304 .. Smollett 496 T. Carew 70 491 T. Hood 188 ...H. Kirke White 194 Daridson's “ Rhapsody,' 1608 481 Viscount Strangford 475 Marriott 279 T. Campbell 153 ..W. Couper ..R. Herrick 78 ..Chas. Lamb 591 276 49 ......R. Herrick 10 599 ..J. Lylye 252 . Lady Winchelsea 185 'Gay 286 ..G. Peele 478 . Percy's - Reliques' 265 ..From Menzini 161 .A. Cunningham 287 |