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Dedication: To the Countess of Portsmouth, in memory of pleasant hours at Eggesford, this book is, with her permission, dedicated.
The dedication includes a poem 'At Eggesford, Easter 1885'.
Author's note: To the Reader....The poems entitled 'Across the Sea' were written in or of my adopted country - Australia, and my interesting 'voyage home,' as all Australians patriotically call it, by way of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea....
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Extent:xv, 304, 8, 32p.p. Written as:Douglas B. W. Sladen
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Includes 'Opinions of the Press', eight pages of critical commentary on Sladen's works, and a 32 page catalogue entitled 'A Catalogue of New and Standard Books in General Literature, Devotional and Religious Books, and Educational Books & Appliances' published by Griffith, Farran, Okeden, & Welsh at back of book.
