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Title: Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.

Author: W. H. Rhodes

Editor: Daniel O'Connell

Release Date: June 10, 2010 [EBook #32761]

Language: English

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CAXTON'S BOOK:

A COLLECTION OF

ESSAYS, POEMS, TALES AND SKETCHES.

BY THE LATE
W. H. RHODES.

_EDITED BY DANIEL O'CONNELL._

SAN FRANCISCO:
A. L. BANCROFT AND COMPANY.
1876.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876,
BY SUSAN RHODES,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.

SAN FRANCISCO:
A. L. BANCROFT AND COMPANY,
PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

PREFACE.

The sketches and poems in this volume were written at a time when the
author was engaged in the practice of a laborious profession. It was the
intention of Mr. Rhodes to collect them from the various newspapers and
periodicals in which they had appeared, and publish them in book-form
whenever he could obtain a respite from his arduous duties. But before
he carried out his long-cherished object he died, in the prime of his
manhood and the ripeness of his literary life. Many of his poems were
written for the monthl