Excerpt from Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems States by meni have never seen - friends like the late John Eliot Bowen, the Rev. T. T. Munger, the late Paul Hamilton Hayne, and many others, in cluding Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic, whose great work, The Victorian Poets, is now acknowledged everywhere as a masterpiece. That he has been generous in his praise of me affects me much. You are an Englishman, he seems to say, leaning forward as it were on the threshold of his land. Come in and live with us, in your books And here I am, my inner self, ready, in this new garb, to face What friends I have. I never forget how can I -that my first readers were Americans, my first poem, so far as this collection is concerned, having been published in the Independent of New York, to which, and other journals, I herewith ten der my most hearty thanks on this my birthday morning, when, as chance will have it, I am sending the proof-sheets of this book to America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.