Nearly all these Poems have appeared during the past year in the
columns of the _Globe_ and the _Mail_ and _Empire_ of Toronto, and the
_Free Press_ of Detroit, Michigan.
When the Author read from his poems last winter before the Women's
Press Club of Toronto one of its members suggested that an engrossed
and illuminated copy of the poem, "I Take Off My Hat to Albert," be
presented to His Majesty, King Albert of Belgium. This was done
through the kind offices and courtesy of Mr. Goor, the Belgian
Consul-General at Ottawa.
His Majesty's gracious letter of acceptance, which the reader will find
on another page, is indeed a Royal Foreword to these poetic blossoms of
a piteous though heroic time.