Excerpt from The Ohio Educational Monthly, Vol. 56: A Journal of Education; January, 1907 He expresses the sorrows of the tree-toad as well as the heartaches of man; and so direct and sympa thetic are his lines that he seems to be Speaking to each personally, when he makes us feel the heart throb in the verses beginning, There, little girl, don't cry. As we read The Lost Kiss, we find our tears falling with those of the father who suffers the maddening grief of having been harsh to his child who now sleeps the long sleep. This quality is to be found not only in poems of tender sentiment, but in everything he has 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.