Nov. 29, 20-American humane education society-Gift PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. As another edition of "Voices" is called for, the occasion is improved to add further selections, in order to make the book more valuable. One of the earliest letters of high commendation of the first edition came from Mr. Wendell Phillips. He said, however, that two of his favorite poems were not in the book: "Flush," by Mrs. Browning, and "The Dog and Water-Lily," by Cowper. The compiler supposed that the first was there, but he then found that in some way it had failed to appear. Of course both are in the enlarged edition. It is delightful now to recall the glowing words of Mr. Phillips. A word of grateful acknowledgment is also due to Editors for unsought and most generous words of approval, where approval was most prized. To selections from Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Cowper, Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier, Lowell, and Dr. Holmes are now added others from the same poets and from many others. Additions of peculiar interest will be found from Thomson, Byron, Coleridge, Browning, Matthew Arnold, Emerson, Bret Harte; as well as from noble women, not a few. In the belief that the added selections will make this new edition more influential in increasing the rising tide of humane feeling and opinion that marks our day, it is hopefully reissued.. PREFACE. THE Compiler of this little book has often heard inquiries by teachers of schools, for selections suitable for reading and recitations by their scholars, in which the duty of kindness to animals should be distinctly taught. To meet such calls, three successive pamphlets of general selections were published, and a fourth consisting of selections from the Poems of Mr. Longfellow. All were received with marked favor by the teachers to whom they became known, This led to their collection afterwards in one volume for private circulation, and now the volume is republished for public sale, with a few omissions and additions. All who desire our children to be awakened in their schools to the claims of the humbler creatures are invited to see that copies are put in school libraries, that they may be within the reach of all teachers. And this, not for the sake of the creatures only. As Pope has said, "Nothing stands alone; the chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.” Many readers may be surprised to find how many of the great poets have been touched by the sufferings of |