Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses

Nearly all the verses that now make their first appearance in book form are reprinted from Punch, by kind permission of Messrs. Bradbury and Agnew. The rest I have taken from two little books that were published in Bombay during my last (and, I suppose, final) tour of service in India. They contained a good deal of work that was too local or topical in interest to stand reproduction, and— especially the elder, which is out of print— some that I would sooner bury than perpetuate. The rest I have overhauled, and included in this re-collection.