Excerpt from An Anthology of Prose Verse: With a Foreword by Edmund Gosse Lastly, I cannot adequately thank my father's old friend, Mr. Edmund Gosse, for the foreword he has contributed and also for his kind advice. Without his promise of assistance, I should have felt some hesitation in attempting to prepare this volume which Mr. I. M. Dent, in view of his many years of friendship and happy association with my father, was desirous of bringing out as a tribute to his memory. 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.