Excerpt from Robert W. Barbour: Letters, Poems, and Pensees Scarcely anything in this book was written for publication. Indeed it is less a book than an album - an album in which some old fellow-students have wished to preserve for their own sakes a few things which remained to them in the hand writing of their friend. The Poems included here are partly taken from an early volume which Mr. Barbour published when leaving College, but many of them are new. The Pensees have been extracted from sources purely informal, and, like the Letters, are printed exactly as they were written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.