Excerpt from Outre-Mer and Drift-Wood The earlier of Mr. Longfellow's work was marked by many experiments, both in prose and verse, which he preferred to exclude from the collections which he afterwards formed. They con stitute no part of that body of literature which he has bequeathed to his countrymen, but they have a positive value to careful students of his genius, and it has therefore been decided to print, in the appendices of certain volumes, discarded work which was contemporaneous with the contents of those volumes; and to indicate, as fully as may be, all of Mr. Longfellow's printed productions. The Publishers do this for the convenience of students, and beoause the greater part of this matter has already been reprinted in less accessible volumes. 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.