PREFACE.

IN offering this little volume to my friends, I have to remark that the poetry at the head of each Acrostic is intended to indicate, more or less clearly, the words to be sought for; as, for instance, in No. I., "Queen Victoria," "Royal Children." I have quoted from Longfellow, Tennyson, Tom Taylor, Dale, C. Tayler, A. Smith, &c. &c., and other of our best British poets-in some instances from memory; therefore the quotations may not always be verbatim. Having been obliged to take the names of towns, rivers, &c., some of which may be little known, I have added at the end of the volume a geographical list of all those referred to, which will, I hope, remove any difficulty in filling up the Acrostics. Any profits from the publication will be devoted to the "Brompton Hospital for Consumption."

Hamble-le-Rice, Southampton.

KATE GORDON.

March, 1866.

CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN, BELLE SAUVAGE WORKS,

LUDGATE HILL, E.C.

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PREFACE.

IN offering this little volume to my friends, I have to remark that the poetry at the head of each Acrostic is intended to indicate, more or less clearly, the words to be sought for; as, for instance, in No. I., "Queen Victoria," "Royal Children." I have quoted from Longfellow, Tennyson, Tom Taylor, Dale, C. Tayler, A. Smith, &c. &c., and other of our best British poets-in some instances from memory; therefore the quotations may not always be verbatim. Having been obliged to take the names of towns, rivers, &c., some of which may be little known, I have added at the end of the volume a geographical list of all those referred to, which will, I hope, remove any difficulty in filling up the Acrostics. Any profits from the publication will be devoted to the "Brompton Hospital for Consumption."

Hamble-le-Rice, Southampton.

KATE GORDON.

March, 1866.

DOUBLE

ACROSTICS.

"Now, 'mid the glory that surrounds her name,
Long may Victoria, like the Roman dame,
Read in those features that reflect her own
The only gems that can enrich her throne!
Long may her children, nurtured for renown,
Delight the Nation and adorn the Crown!"

1. A musical note.
2. A town of Naples.
3. Living on charity.
4. A river of Spain.
5. Pertaining to sailors.
6. An order of valour.
7. A measure of length.
8. A people of Hyrcania.

9. An excise of goods.

10. An ancient space of time.

11. A plunderer.

12. An accidental circumstance.

13. The general who commanded the

Grecians at the siege of Troy.

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