Excerpt from Verses IN issuing this volume for private circulation I am but fulfilling one of my father's last wishes, and executing a scheme which had been planned and partly carried out by him. During the months of November and December last, complying with the desire expressed by myself and other members of his family, he employed part of his time in looking over his mss. And arranging such few pieces of verse as had been occasionally pub lished for him in periodicals. The selection which he then made has been printed in this volume in the order and with the titles he designed. A few pages received his corrections for the press before his last illness suspended this and all the other movements of his wonderfully powerful and active mind. To shew how thoroughly the little book belongs to him alone, I may add that he 'chose the paper for it, the type, and even the binding; Two additions only' I have ventured to make - the. 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.