TO THE READER.

THE pleasing fancy conveyed in the gift of the little flower, to which the name of Forget-me-not has been given, is one readily acknowledged by every heart, and in which few, indeed, will not acknowledge a sympathetic respouse at its renewal.

The Editor of the present little Volume has sought to arrange together, in its pages, such a selection as shall shadow forth that modest flower, and prove in the hands of parting friends an appropriate substitute for its emblematic offering; recalling to the distant wanderer the memory of those most dear, and whispering for each, as a faithful monitor,-Though absent,

FORGET-ME-NOT!