ENIGMAS, WITH POETICAL DESCRIPTIONS Selected principally from British Poets. BY MRS. ALEXANDER GORDON. LONDON: 1866. 280.j. bs, PREFACE. In offering this little volume to my friends, I have to remark that the poetry at the head of each Acrostic is intended to indicate, more or less clearly, the words to be sought for; as, for instance, in No. I., “ Queen Victoria,” “ Royal Children.” I have quoted from Longfellow, Tennyson, Tom Taylor, Dale, C. Tayler, A. Smith, &c. &c., and other of our best British poets—in some instances from memory; therefore the quotations may not always be verbatim. Having been obliged to take the names of towns, rivers, &c., some of which may be little known, I have added at the end of the volume a geographical list of all those referred to, which will, I hope, remove any difficulty in filling up the Acrostics. Any profits from the publication will be devoted to the “ Brompton Hospital for Consumption.” KATE GORDON. Hamble-le-Rice, Southampton. March, 1866. |