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poems are to be collected into a book. It will be a treasured volume in the households of the elect and will help materially to keep alive the memory of this man who so deserves remembrance. Without blast of trumpet, he won his way to the highest place in the appreciation of the cultured few. There we may leave him, secure for long years to come.

It was Mr. Blood's wish, I am proud to say, that in the event of a posthumous publication of any of his work, I might perform the service I am endeavoring to render now. I do it in the hope that the readers of this book will believe that I have done no injustice to his fame.

John Edmund Willoughby.

Amsterdam, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1924.

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