Excerpt from February With the lengthening days which distinguish the third month of winter from its predecessor, come ardent desires for spring, and longings for the time of birds and flowers. An adventurous swallow too early flying from the south, a vision of snowdrops in the snow, a day of April warmth lit by a slant February sun, are all hailed with pleasure as harbingers of a more gracious season on its northward way. It is this attitude of the mind in February which the editor has endeavored to illustrate in this number of T hrougfi tfie Year with Me Poets. To many persons, however, the Valentine season is the central fact of the month; and the editor, recognizing this, has therefore included several of the best poems which have been inspired by this tender as well as fer tile theme. One of these, which will be found on the forty-seventh page, now appears for the first time, having been written for this volume by Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman, - a name most pleasantly known among those of younger American poets. Mr. Clinton Scollard's graceful lines upon the title-page were written for their present niche; and February, by Mrs. Jane G. Austin. 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.