1884. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Selected and Prepared for use in Schools. (From Hudson’s _Text-Book of Poetry_.) Section I. Boston: Ginn, Heath and Co. 12mo. 37 1888. PRELUDE; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind. With Notes by A. J. George. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. 12mo. 38 1888. BITS OF BURNISHED GOLD, from William Wordsworth. Compiled by Rose Porter. New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co. 12mo. 39 1889. SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. With Notes by A. J. George. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. 12mo. 40 1889. MELODIES FROM NATURE. (From Wordsworth.) Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. 4to. 41 1889. SELECT POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.[501] Edited, with Notes, by W. J. Rolfe. With Engravings. New York: Harper Brothers. Square 16mo. 42 1889. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Selected and Prepared for use in School. Paper. (From Hudson’s _Text-Book of Poetry_.) Section II. 12mo. Boston: Ginn and Co. 43 1890. SELECT POEMS FROM WORDSWORTH, with Explanatory Notes. Edited by James H. Dillard. New York: Effingham, Maynard and Co. 12mo. 44 1890. PASTORALS, LYRICS AND SONNETS FROM THE POETIC WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 16mo. White and Gold Series. 45 1891. A SELECTION OF THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.[502] With numerous Illustrations. By A. Parsons. New York: Harper Brothers. 4to. 46 1891. WORDSWORTH FOR THE YOUNG. Selections. Illustrated. With an Introduction for parents and teachers by Cynthia Morgan St. John. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Small 4to. 153 pp. 47 1892. WORDSWORTH’S PREFACES AND ESSAYS ON POETRY. Edited by A. J. George. (Heath’s English Classics.) Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. 12mo. 48 1892. POEMS OF WORDSWORTH. Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. (Copyright 1892 by T. Y. Crowell.) [478] _Simon Lee_ was probably the first poem of Wordsworth’s published in a Literary Journal in America, and is the beginning of Wordsworth’s Bibliography in U.S.A. A note in “The Port Folio” (vol. i. p. 24) is as follows: “The public may remember reading in some of the newspapers the interesting little ballads, _We are Seven_, and _Goody Blake and Harry Gill_. They were extracted from the ‘Lyrical Ballads,’ a collection remarkable for originality, simplicity, and nature.… The following, _Simon Lee_, is from the same work.” It is evident from this that two, at least, of Wordsworth’s poems were copied into American newspapers as early as 1800, and that Joseph Dennie, the founder, as well as editor, of “The Port Folio”--the first purely Literary Journal established in this country--was the first American champion of Wordsworth. C. M. ST. JOHN. [479] _The Pet Lamb_ appeared in this Book almost immediately after its publication in England. It was the first poem of Wordsworth’s published in a book in America. It was also the first instance of the introduction of a poem of Wordsworth’s into a School Book. C. M. ST. JOHN.