Excerpt from A Sheaf of Poems The Home yearned is confronted today with the sad duty of announcing to its readers the death of Mr. George Perry who, for many years, has presided over its literary departments. The effacement of his name from its familiar place under the title-heading of the yearned is a mournful necessity. And the pity of it is all the more because Mr. Perry seemed to be endowed with a bodily constitution that, though he had reached his sixty-first year, gave assurance Of still a goodly number of years Of effec tive work either as editor or in that scholarly retire ment to which he looked forward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.