Excerpt from July OF the summer months July has always been the one most favored of the poets, who have never tired of singing the praises of midsummer. It is the fioodtide of the year. The freshness of early summer has passed, it is true but what June promised July fulfils. Not yet has come the chill at eventide that in late summer hints faintly, but none the less surely, of autumn and the fading leaf. The brooks are not yet dried in their courses. It is the time when lilies blow, the harvest is near at hand, and it is high midsummer. Like its predecessors in this series, 7uly lays no claim to ex haustive presentation of the subject; but that a fairly complete picture of midsummer is given in its pages the editor is quite sure. Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins, whose infrequent poems never fail to please, contributes to this volume a notable lyric, In July. Miss Helen Gray Cone's sonnet, A July Noon, and Mr. James Newton Mat thews' July in the West, have likewise been gener ously contributed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.