THE

NEW POETICAL READER.

EDITED BY

J. C. CURTIS, B.A.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE TRAINING COLLEGE, BOROUGH ROAD, LONDON,
Author of a "School and College History of England," "Chronological
and Genealogical Tables, illustrative of English History,"
"Outlines of English History," "Outlines of Scripture History,"
"Outlines of Grammar,"
""Outlines of Geography," etc.,
and Editor of "The Poetical Reader" and
Curtis's Junior Reader."

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, &

STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

1872.

2805.

CO.

PREFACE.

THE following collection has been made in compliance with the wish of many teachers that the Editor should publish another volume of poetry as a sequel to the "Poetical Reader."

By employing a smaller, though clear type, he has been able to include several poems of considerable length as well as a large number of short pieces.

This volume will be found peculiarly rich in poems which now appear for the first time in a Reading Book-a feature for which the Editor is greatly indebted to the many authors and publishers who have generously permitted him to

insert valuable copyright poems. Among the latter

he desires especially to mention Messrs. Blackwood and Sons., Macmillan and Co., Masters and

Co., and Strahan and Co.

November, 1871.