Excerpt from Fragments of Prose and PoetryOf the poems which follow, a few have ap peared already in a small volume, which was published in 1870, and has for a long time been out of print, some have been collected from the Saturday Review and the Nineteenth Century with the kind permission of the Editors, but the greater number have not yet been given to the public. The obituary notices have hitherto been scattered among the numbers of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research for permission to reprint them I wish to express my gratitude to the Council of the Society.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.