First published (without the author’s permission) in the _Newry Telegraph_ (April 19, 1817), and reprinted in many other journals. Highly praised by Byron (1822)--‘Such an ode as only Campbell could have written’--this poem was attributed to Byron himself, and claimed by many impostors. The question of authorship was settled in 1841 by the discovery of an autograph copy in a letter from Wolfe to a college friend. LIII-LIV _Works, with a Memoir_ (7 vols., William Blackwood & Sons, 1839). Most of Mrs. Hemans’ poems were first published in periodicals, such as _The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine_ and _The New Monthly Magazine_. The latter was, for a time, edited by Thomas Campbell, not very successfully. The ‘Author’s Note’ on the first number is as follows:--‘It is supposed that war was anciently proclaimed in Britain by sending messengers in different directions through the land, each bearing a _bended bow_; and that peace was in like manner announced by a bow unstrung, and, therefore, straight.’ LV-LVI The first (reprinted from _Knight’s Quarterly Magazine_) was included in the 1848 edition of the _Lays of Ancient Rome_. It is dated 1832. LVII-LVIII _Alma and other Poems_ (1855), and _Poems_ (New Edition, 2 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1885). By permission of Mr. A. Chenevix Trench. LIX _Last Poems_ (Smith, Elder & Co., 1862). This volume was published after the author’s death. By permission of the publishers. LX-LXVI The first two appeared in _Poems_ (2 vols., Edward Moxon, 1842). The third is from _The Princess: a Medley_ (Edward Moxon, 1847). The fourth is from the lines entitled, _To the Queen_, forming the Dedication of the Seventh Edition of _Poems_ (London: 1851). The fifth and sixth first appeared in _The Examiner_, in 1852; the former on January 31, and the latter on February 7. The seventh is from the _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington_, published separately in November 1852 (Edward Moxon), and reprinted with _Maud_ (1855). LXVII-LXVIII The first appeared in _The Examiner_, December 9, 1854, and was reprinted with _Maud_ (1855). Written on December 2nd, in a few minutes, after reading the description in _The Times_, in which occurred the phrase ‘someone had blundered.’ (_Memoir_, i. p. 381.) The second is from _Maud_. LXIX _The Return of the Guards and Other Poems_ (Macmillan & Co., 1866). By permission of the publishers. The poem deals with an incident of the war with China (1860):--‘Some Seiks (Sikhs) and a private of the Buffs (or East Kent Regiment) having remained behind with the grog-carts, fell into the hands of the Chinese. On the next morning they were brought before the authorities, and commanded to perform the _Ko tou_. The Seiks obeyed; but Moyse, the English soldier, declaring that he would not prostrate himself before any Chinaman alive, was immediately knocked upon the head, and his body thrown upon a dunghill.’ Quoted by the author from _The Times_. LXX-LXXI