Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Into the Light
The justification for the publication of this volume (exclusive of that which goes to the seeming present indi?'erence to the work of the poet) lies in the fact that the unsold copies of the author's two books, Visions and other Verse and Into the Light and other Verse, were destroyed in the great fire. The latter having been issued about a week before that time, nearly the whole of its edition was lost. Under these circumstances Mr. A. M. Robertson, a publisher of San Francisco, who is a friend of the poets and a believer in the value of their work, suggested that the author make for publication by him selections from the two books above mentioned. Hence the present volume, there having been added to the selections several pieces written since the fire. It might be well to state that Into the Light was independently published in paper covers in the latter part of the year 1901. That edition copies in number) was about exhausted at the time of the incorporation of the poem in the volume entitled Into the Light and other Verse. Since its first publication seventeen stanzas have been added to it, eight of which appear here for the first time.
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