The poems in this collection are reprinted by permission of their
proprietors, the proprietors of _Punch_. They are used with the
added consent of their authors, or their representatives except in
one case, of death, and two where present addresses are unknown. In
some cases the consent of book-publishers has been superadded. All
this we acknowledge gratefully. It would be gratifying if, in
return, this use might add to the fame of the poets represented. The
wish is, however, presumptuous, seeing that most of them are known,
even outside the pages of _Punch_ by many readers: C. K. Burrow
through his _In Time of Peace_, etc. (Collins); Hartley Carrick,
through _The Muse in Motley_ (Bowes); P. R. Chalmers, _Green Days_,
etc. (Maunsel); Mrs. Eden, _Coal and Candlelight_, etc. (Lane), etc.;
Miss Farjeon, _Nursery Rhymes of London Town_, etc. (Duckworth); Miss
Fyleman, _Fairies and Chimneys_, etc. (Methuen); Miss Fox Smith,
_Sailor Town_, etc. (Matthews), _Rhymes of the Red Ensign_ (Hodder
and Stoughton), etc.; Crosbie Garstin, _Vagabond Verses_ (Sidgwick
and Jackson), with which will be coupled a new volume (Heinemann)
including poems from _Punch_ reprinted here; A. P. Herbert, _Play
Hours with Pegasus_, etc. (Blackwell); A. L. Jenkins, _Forlorn
Adventures_ (Sidgwick and Jackson); E. V. Knox, _The Brazen Lyre_
(Murray), etc.; R. C. Lehmann, _The Vagabond_ (Lane); W. H. Ogilvie,
_Rainbows and Witches_, etc. (Matthews), _Hearts of Gold_, etc.
(Oxford); R. K. Risk, _Songs of the Links_ (Duckworth); Sir Owen
Seaman, _In Cap and Bells_, etc. (Lane), and _A Harvest of Chaff_,
etc. (Constable).