:

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF EGREMONT,

ETC. ETC.

THE BENEFICENT PATRON

OF PROFESSORS OF LITERATURE AND ART IN

GREAT BRITAIN,

THIS VOLUME

IS GRATEFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED BY

THE EDITOR.

THE BOOK OF GEMS of MODERN POETS is published under difficulties with which the Editor had not to contend in the two preceding volumes of the Work.

However fearlessly a critic may write of those who are beyond the influence of his opinions, it must be otherwise in regard to those who are present to detect and expose such as are erroneous. The anonymous in literature