Excerpt from Sonnets and a Dream The Author's acknowledgments are due to the pub lishers of cezztury, _harper'j Mofltlyly, Harper'f Week/y, Tba Out/00k, and Tbe Spectator for permis sion to reprint such of his Sonnets as were originally contributed to the pages of these periodicals. With respect to the Sonnet Doe; America bate England? It is proper to say that it was written while the ani mosities enkindled by the Venezuela dispute were still flagrant, and long before the billing and cooing with which the international atmosphere is now vocal had begun; in fact, a London journalist had at the time opened his columns to a solemn discussion of the question which gives the poem its title. To clear the last piece in the book from a certain flavor of pla giarism which might otherwise cling to it, the Author ventures to add that the verses had been written and were in private circulation a year before the poem. 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.