Excerpt from The Shadow Worshiper, and Other Poems

Without for a moment fancying that any endorsement is necessary for the poems contained in this volume, or dreaming that mine would be important if it were, I am about to assume, perhaps on my own acquaintance with the public, to introduce a new aspirant for its favors.

Some five or six years ago Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine, of which I was co-editor, became the recipient of several poems and stories sent anonymous, which not only attracted our attention but became exceedingly popular among a large class of intelligent readers. There was something fresh and original in these papers in strong contrast with the majority of communications with which our periodicals are inundated. They wanted finish and that compactness of construction which is the art of literature, but natural vigor and high imagination was there, and for some two or three years the articles that came to our pages from this source were considered among the gems of the magazine.

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