Excerpt from Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices In our estimates of the poets we have, as be fore, endeavoured neither to rise into the vague ights of the panegryist, nor sink into the bathos of the apologist. Amidst the exacting duties of journalistic work, the task of pre paring authentic biographies of so varied a character, frequently out of a bewildering and heterogeneous mass of material, has been no light one. Yet the kindly reception by the public and the press of our previous efforts, and the encourage ment we received from publishers of copyright works encouraged us to persevere with our labours and, should the soft spring breath of kindly appreciation continue to warm the chilly atmos phere, we hope to be able to bring forth during 1883 another and concluding volume of owers of perhaps even greater richness and beauty, and thus preserve them to blossom forth and beautify and enrich our national literature. In the words of a recent writer - Every true lover of our native minstrelsy may in these days find much to instruct him and to delight him in the perusal of The Modern Scottish Poets by Edwards, of Brechin. And we are sure he will be satisfied that the land of Burns continues to be the land of song, and still owns a host of poetical writers, many of whose productions are of sterling merit, and will continue to charm the hearts of Scotchmen so long as they continue to love their native land. 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."