The proceeds of the Sale of this little Book are devoted to lessening the Debt upon a School lately built in a poor district of a Parish (enigmatically described in the Preface), into which London is now overflowing at the rate of a thousand souls per annum. June 1868. PREFACE. WHERE ERST, BENEATH THE OAKEN SHADE, * A KING SOUGHT RECREATION, HAS HAMLET, VILLAGE, TOWN OBEYED THE LAWS OF POPULATION. Double Acrostics. 1 ADVICE TO THE GENTLE READER. Let Alexander use his sword, 1. An English river. 2. An English hero. 5. An un-English title. 2 I. Part, twinkling waves, bend, pliant oar, B D. Y. |