Lord Selborne, the late Principal Shairp, Professor Veitch, Mr. Spence Watson, and Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews. The time has surely come when a Selection from the poems of Wordsworth might be used as a class-book in the secondary schools of the country. For this purpose the first book of The Excursion has been edited with notes, by Mr. H. Turner, in the "English School Classics" series, published by the Messrs. Rivington; and Canon Robinson of York had edited the same book with notes. For the same purpose The Prelude will soon be published in America, and The White Doe of Rylstone in England. Mr. Arnold's volume of Selections is equally suited for private reading, and for school purposes. This one may, in course of time, fulfil a similar function. The portrait prefixed to the Poems is from the first of the four miniatures taken by the late Miss Margaret Gillies, which is now in the possession of Sir Henry Doulton. Sir Henry has very kindly had it engraved for use in this volume. ST. ANDREWS, September, 1888. WILLIAM KNIGHT. 'Strange fits of passion have I known "Three years she grew in sun and shower" "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" "I travelled among unknown men" |