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them have a mind of fancy that will be bound down to no particular time or place, or perversely imagines all that is unknown to be magnificent: in a word, that they can write with more or less felicity what we agree to call, mingling praise with blame, “minor poetry.”

A volume like the present lays its compilers under all sorts of obligations. Foremost, to the contributors and their representatives who have allowed their work to be included; to the weekly newspapers, for being good enough to give the scheme the publicity of their columns and thereby save the editors from overlooking many writers; to the authorities of the same and other periodicals and to publishing firms in various places, who have freely given their permission to republish many pieces, as is elsewhere acknowledged: and among sundry others, to Miss A. E. Alfrey, Miss Colborne-Veel, Dr. T. M. Hocken, Mr. J. L. Kelly, Miss Jessie Mackay, Mr. Seaforth Mackenzie, and Mr. A. G. Stephens, who have taken a great deal of trouble in hunting out poets for inspection, or have given generous assistance in various other ways. Some help has been derived from the Australasian anthologies of Mr. D. B. W. Sladen.

The editors regret that they have not been able to make the collection completely typical of the country: they would not have been averse to in-

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