viit Prefatory Note. 



service, have gone on to reproduce my comments, that I accept 

 their recognition of the object of my compilation as a compli- 

 ment, even when they have translated me to their own books, 

 a page at a time, without any acknowledgment, and even when, 

 mistaking me for an obsolete and extinct Person, they have 

 respectfully regretted that I had not survived to the Tenny- 

 sonian Epoch, when many of my opinions might have been 

 altered for the better. 



Wherein Jean Ingelow is delightfully avenged. For 

 having in my first volume premised that I was not dealing 

 with "contemporary" Poets, I quoted largely from that most 

 charming Writer ; and my feelings may or may not be 

 imagined on receiving, a few days after the publication of my 

 book, an invitation to a garden-party, signed u jean Ingelow /" 

 My pleasure in discovering ?ny mistake was increased by being 

 thus enabled to dedicate my second volume to one of the most 

 exquisite Poets of Nature and most tender Interpreters of the 

 speechless world. 



PHIL ROBINSON. 

 January 1893. 



