THE NEW POETICAL READER. EDITED BY J. C. CURTIS, B.A., PRINCIPAL OF THE TRAINING COLLEGE, BOROUGH ROAD, LONDON, 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 |