The Memory of the Dead. Page 195. INGRAM was born in Ireland in 1820.

The Bivouar of the Dead. Page 197. In accordance with an act of the legislature of Kentucky, the remains of the soldiers from that state who fell at Buena Vista were brought home to Frankfort, and there interred under a handsome monument. This was the occasion of O'HARA's poem. He was born in Kentucky about 1820, and died in Alabama in 1867.

Nearer, my God, to Thee. Page 199. Mrs. ADAMS (b. in England, 1805, d. 1848) wrote several hymns, and a drama.

Lines on a Skeleton. Page 201. The manuscript of this poem was found near a skeleton in the London Royal College of Surgeons, about 1820. The author has never been found, though a reward of fifty guineas was offered for his discovery. Perhaps the lines were suggested to him, consciously or unconsciously, by the 6th stanza of the Second Canto of "Childe Harold."

The Place where Man should Die. Page 202. BARRY (b. in Ireland about 1815) published this poem in the Dublin Nation in 1843.

A Hundred Years to Come. Page 203. BROWN (b. in Whitingham, Vt., 1812) has been a teacher and editor, and now resides at Stevens Point, Wis. This poem was published originally in the Mother's Journal, Philadelphia.

The Song of Steam. Page 204. CUTTER (b. in Massachusetts, 1801, d. in Washington, D. C., 1865) was a lawyer by profession. He won some distinction in the Mexican war, after which he married Miss Drake, an actress of Cincinnati, and settled at Covington, Ky. He published a volume entitled "Buena Vista, and other Poems," in Cincinnati in 1848. His "Song of the Lightning" is very similar to the "Song of Steam," but has not been so successful.

Why thus Longing? Page 206. Mrs. SEWALL (formerly Mrs. LIST) was born in Portland, Maine, and after her first marriage resided in Philadelphia. She now lives in Boston.

Nothing to Wear. Page 207. BUTLER (b. in Albany, N. Y., 1825) published this poem in 1857. He considers his "Two Millions" a much better poem, though it never attained equal popularity.

Antony and Cleopatra. Page 217. Gen LYTLE (b. in Cincinnati, 1826, fell in the battle of Chickamauga, September, 1863) is said to have written this poem one night after seeing Edwin Booth in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra."

The Nautilus and the Ammonite. Page 218. RICHARDSON, who was connected with the British Museum, wrote essays, poems, and geological works. This poem-first published, I believe, in Mantell's "Thoughts on a Pebble," London, 1849-gained much of its popularity through recitation by lecturers on geology.

Carmen Bellicosum. Page 220. Judge MCMASTER (b. 1829, d. 1887) resided in Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y.

Doris. Page 221. MUNBY, an Englishman, published a volume of poems in 1865.

The Exile to his Wife. Page 223. BRENAN (b. 1829, d. 1857) was a native of the north of Ireland. He joined the Young Ireland party in 1848, and was one of the conductors of the Irish Felon. He was imprisoned for nine months in Dublin, afterward edited the Irishman, and in October, 1849, being implicated in an insurrectionary movement in Tipperary, fled to America. He was for three years connected with the New Orleans Delta, and died in that city in May, 1857.

Rock Me to Sleep. Page 224. Mrs. ALLEN sent this poem from Italy (she was then Mrs. Paul Akers) to the Saturday Evening Gazette in 1860. When it had become popular, several claimants to its authorship arose, and a fierce dispute ensued, one claimant hiring a whole page of a New York daily in which to set forth his proofs. Mrs. Allen's volume (Boston, 1865) contains better, though less popular, poems than this.

Only a Baby Small. Page 226. BARR (b. in Edinburgh, 1831) resides in London. He published a volume of poems in 1865; enlarged edition, 1870. He has been called "the Children's Laureate."

The Jolly Old Pedagogue. Page 226. ARNOLD (b. in New York city, 1834, d. 1865) published this poem in the Round Table, and without his signature it traveled the rounds of the press. His poems were edited with a memoir by his friend William Winter (Boston, 1867).

Ode on the Centenary of Burns. Page 229. Miss CRAIG's ode, which bore off the prize of £50, offered by the directors of the Crystal Palace Company, from more than six hundred competitors, is one of the few prize poems which have possessed any poetical merit. She was born in Edinburgh in 1831, and in 1866 married JOHN KNOX, a London merchant. She has published three small volumes of poetry.

Over the River. Page 232. Miss PRIEST (b. in Hinsdale, N. H., 1837, d. 1870) published this poem in the Springfield Republican in August, 1857. She married Lieut. A. C. WAKEFIELD in 1865.

The Old Sergeant. Page 234. WILLSON (b. in Little Genesee, N. Y., 1837, d. 1867) wrote this poem as a carrier's address for the Louisville Journal, Jan. 1, 1863. John James Piatt published a sketch of him fu the Atlantic for March, 1875. His poems were published in 1867.

Too Late. Page 239. LUDLOW (b. in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1837, d. in Switzerland, 1870) wrote some of our best American college songs.

What the End Shall be. Page 240. This poem has been handed about in manuscript for at least a quarter of a century. It is attributed to FRANCES BROWNE, the blind poetess (b. in Stranolar, Ireland, 1816).

The Troo Worlds. Page 243. This poem has long been going the

rounds, credited only to the Dublin University Magazine.

COLLINS (b. in England, 1827, d. 1876) was editor of that periodical. He published three volumes of poetry.

Rain on the Roof. Page 244. KINNEY (b. in Penn Yan, N. Y., 1826) is a lawyer and journalist, and resides in Xenia, O. The text of this poem as usually printed is very corrupt. It is here set from a copy furnished by the author.

Willie Winkie. Page 246. MILLER is a native of Scotland,

The Old Canoe. Page 247. Miss PAGE (b. in Bradford, Vt., about 1835, d. about 1859) wrote this poem at the age of seventeen.

Only Waiting. Page 248. Published in the Waterville, Me., Mail in 1854.

The Burial of Moses. Page 249. Miss HUMPHREYS (b. in Strabane, Ireland) married in 1850 the Rev. William Alexander, who is now Bishop of Derry.

Milton's Prayer of Patience. Page 252. Mrs. HOWELL was a resident of Philadelphia.

Curfew Must not Ring To-night. Page 253. ROSA HARTWICK (b. in Mishawaka, Ind., 1850) married Edmund C. Thorpe in 1871, and now resides in Missouri. She wrote this poem in 1867, and published it in the Detroit Commercial Advertiser in the autumn of 1870.

Revelry in India. Page 256. These lines are said to have been sung by a company of British officers stationed at a frontier post in India during a pestilence. It is also said that the author of them was the next victim. They have been persistently attributed to Alfred Domett; but in a letter to me, dated February 6, 1879, he says: "I did not write that poem, and was never in India in my life. I am as ignorant of the authorship as you can be; indeed, I never heard of the poem until I saw it attributed to myself in an article in the Chicago Times, in the year 1872, I think. The poem has splendid talent, and even more spirit, which makes me the more anxious to disclaim it, as I do not wish to take any credit that properly belongs to another man.'

The Rising of the Moon. Page 258. CASEY (b. in Ireland about 1840) has published a small volume of poems.

My Maryland. Page 259. This song, written in the first year of the Rebellion, was first published in the Charleston Mercury. Perhaps it was suggested by Mangan's "Karamanian Exile," to which it bears a strong resemblance.

Civil War. Page 262. This poem, which appeared originally in London Once a Week, with the signature "From the once United States," has been attributed to CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY (b. about 1830, d. 1876).

The Picket Guard. Page 263, The authorship of this poem has been disputed, but there is now no reason to doubt that it belongs to Mrs BEERS, who resided in Orange, N. J., and died Oct. 10, 1879.

The Countersign. Page 264. Concerning the authorship of "The Countersign," we only know that it was written by a private in Company G of Stuart's Engineers, at Camp Lesley, near Washington, during the first year of the Rebellion. It seems too good to have been a first poem ; but it is to be feared that the chances of war made it the last, as it has never been claimed.

Sherman's March to the Sea. Page 265. Adjutant BYERS (b. in Penn. sylvania about 1835), Fifth Iowa Infantry, wrote this song while a prisoner at Columbia, S. C. General Sherman, to whom a copy of the lines was handed when he arrived at that place, so admired them that he sent for the author and attached him to his staff. Byers was afterward U. S. Consul at Zurich, Switzerland.

Driving Home the Cows. Page 267. Miss OSGOOD, who is a native of Fryeburg, Maine, contributed this poem to Harper's Magazine for March, 1865.

The Twins. Page 269. LEIGH (b. in England about 1840) published Carols of Cockayne" in 1869.

A Little Goose. Page 270. Mrs. TURNER, who resides in Pennsylvania, published a volume of poems in 1871.

Tired Mothers. Page 272. Mrs. SMITH (née RILEY, Brighton, near Rochester, N. Y.) resides in New York city.

The Children. Page 274. DICKINSON (b. about 1845) was a teacher when he wrote this poem. He is now a journalist in Binghamton, N. Y. The Burial of Sir John Moore. Page 276. This famous ode is here printed exactly as it stands in "Wolfe's Remains," where it is copied from the original manuscript. The Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, writing under date of April 22, 1841, says: "I think it was about the summer of 1814 or 1815 (I cannot say for certainty which), I was sitting in my college rooms [in Dublin] and reading in the ‘Edinburgh Annual Register,' in which a very striking and beautiful account is given of the burial of Sir John Moore. Wolfe came in, and I made him listen to me as I read the passage, which he heard with deep and sensible emotion. We were both loud and ardent in our commendation of it; and after some little time I proposed to our friend to take a walk into the country. He consented, and we bent our way to Simpson's nursery, about halfway between Dublin and the Rock. During our stroll Wolfe was unusually meditative and silent; and I remember having been provoked a little by meeting with no response or sympathy to my frequent bursts of admiration about the country and the scenery, in which, on other occasions, he used so cordially to join. But he atoned for his apparent dullness and insensibility upon his return, when he repeated for me the first and last verses of his beautiful ode, in the composition of which he had been absorbed during our little perambulation. These were

the only verses which our dear friend at first contemplated; but moved, as he said, by my approbation, his mind worked upon the subject after

he left me, and in the morning he came over to me with the other verses by which it was completed." WOLFE (b. in Dublin, Dec. 14, 1791, d. Feb. 21, 1823) neither published this poem nor took pains to claim it. Manu. script copies were taken down from recitation, and it was finally printed, with the initials "C. W.", in the Newry, Ireland, Telegraph, from which it was speedily copied far and wide. An interesting discussion of its merits by Byron and Shelley is given in Medwin's "Conversations of Byron."

Song.-If I had thought. Page 277. The Irish air "Gramachree" was a favorite with WOLFE, but he thought no words had ever been written for it which were worthy of its peculiar pathos. Accordingly, he composed these.

Song.-Go, forget me! Page 278. These words were written for a celebrated singer, to an unpublished air of her own composition.

The First Miracle. Page 279. CRASHAW (b. in London, d. in Italy about 1650) was a clergyman-at first Protestant, afterward Catholic. This, famous as "the one-line poem," appeared in a volume which he published anonymously at Cambridge in 1634.

A Javanese Poem. Page 279. DEKKER is a native of Holland. This poem occurs in his novel "Max Havelaar; or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company," the English translation of which was published in Edinburgh in 1868.

A Yukon Cradle-Song. Page 280. This occurs in Dall's "Alaska."

The Passage. Page 282. Longfellow brought this poem into notice by quoting it in his "Hyperion," where he makes one of his characters say that, "though not very literal, it equals the original in beauty; . . . though in the measure of the original there is something like the rocking motion of a boat, which is not preserved in the translation." UHLAND was born in Tubingen in 1787, and died in 1862. Mrs. AUSTIN, (née Taylor, England, 1793, d. 1867) was the translator of Ranke's works.

Ann Hathaway. Page 282.

These lines were originally addressed

"To the Idol of my Eyes and Delight of my Heart."

On Parting with his Books. Page 284. ROSCOE (b. in Liverpool 1753, d. 1831) was a banker and historian. His firm failed in 1816, and he was obliged to sell his library and art collections.

Hylas. Page 284. Hylas, a beautiful youth, was one of the Argonauts. When they stopped on the coast of Mysia, he went for water, and was seized by the nymphs of the stream into which he dipped his urn. Hercules, to whom he had been entrusted, went in search of him, and was left by the ship. These lines appeared in the "London Keepsake," 1838. We Parted in Silence. Page 285. Mrs. CRAWFORD was a native of Ireland.

Vanitas Vanitatum. Page 286. These lines, which do not appear ir