niche in this Walhalla. There remains the agreeable duty of returning grateful thanks to the authors who have contributed original contributions to these pages, and to other living writers and their publishers, who have given permission to make use of copyright poems, as well as to many friends who have communicated information and in various ways afforded facilities to the Editor in the preparation of this Work. There is a passage in an ancient volume which appears to be appropriate as a concluding paragraph to this introductory page. Cotton Mather remarks, in the dedication to his Decennium Luctuosum, "Should any petit monsieur complain (as the captain that found not himself in the tapestry hangings which exhibited the story of the Spanish invasion in 1588) that he don't find himself mentioned in this history, the author has this apology: He has done as well and as much as he could, that whatever was worthy of a mention might have it; and if this collection of matters be not complete, yet he supposes it may be more complete than any one else hath made; and now he hath done, he hath not pulled up the ladder after him; others may go on as they please with a completer composure." NEW YORK, January, 1876. CONTENTS. Portrait-JOANNA BAILLIE-from the picture by Masquerier.. frontis. PAGE WILLIAM DRUMMOND of Hawthornden-from the picture by Jansen,......to face 73 Of Elevated Pride and Boasting, Of Evil Counsellors, Judges, and Lawyers, On Neæra, Franciscanus (extracts), MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER (1540–1614?), The Cherry and the Slae (extract), |