Opinions of the Press on the First Edition of "WALTER GRAY." "The poems are sweetly natural; and, though on topics often sung, breathe a tenderness and melancholy which are at once soothing and consolatory."-LITERARY GAZETTE. "There is much grace and feeling in the poems of Mrs. Chalenor, who has not aimed at those wild flights in which some writers seem to consider the perfection of poetry to consist, but has chosen the subjects of her muse amid the occurrences of every-day life, to which she has succeeded in imparting a charm and an interest."-GLOBE. "This volume will prove an acceptable gift for youth, and does honour to the heart that dictated it."-SHROPSHIRE CONSERV. "This is an unpretending little volume. The poems display great talent, and embrace a variety of topics familiar to the human mind."-BELL'S LIFE. "A graceful little tribute to the virtues of poesy. The poems exhibit much real feeling and considerable delicacy of thought and expression."-BRITANNIA. "There are some very pleasing poems in this collection; and all are imbued with gentleness and purity of thought."-Court JOURNAL. "Here domestic subjects are pleasingly if not forcibly touched. The book, in short, is womanly."-ATHENEUM. LONDON LONGMAN, BROWN, AND CO. THE POETICAL REMAINS OF MARY CHALENOR. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1843. ADDRESS, BY THE EDITOR. IN presenting this little volume of Poems to an indulgent public, the Editor thinks it necessary to preface it with a few remarks, in order that the circumstances which have occasioned its publication may become known to those readers who may take a friendly interest in its pages. MARY CHALENOR is alike deaf to the approval or condemnation which these humble efforts of her muse may obtain; for since the appearance of a former volume from her pen in the spring of last year, death has snatched her from a scene of great domestic affliction and intense physical suffering. Deprived of an affectionate husband at that period of life when provision for the future |