Lyrics And Love Songs Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Lyrics and Love Songs Before we issued the first edition of my father's poems, I had commenced collecting material for a complete bi ography of him; and a part of this material was used by me to write the biographical sketch which served as a preface to the poems. When we concluded to issue the second edition, having considered the matter carefully, I felt that the time had come to complete the full biography, and to edit the prose writings, publishing the entire col lection as the Life and Works of General Albert Pike. Mr. Allsopp assured me of his entire accord with these views, and the present edition is the result of our hearty co-operation. I thought it would be a good plan to have the Life and Recollections precede the prose writings, and I h0pe the public will approve of this innovation. The announcement of the forthcoming edition, with the full life and prose writings, in addition to the complete collection of his poems, was heartily welcomed by the friends and admirers of my father in every section of the country, which has been a great encouragement to me in such an important undertaking. I have been specially careful to nothing extenuate nor aught set down in malice, and have edited the writings with the utmost care and conscientiousness; and the readers may rely upon the absolute correctness of any statement made by me as of my own knowledge. 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.