117 pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles, black leather spine. 22 full page black & white illustrations appear throughout text, including map of Donegal. Johnston was a personal friend of William Pryor Letchworth. In 1858, Johnston and Letchworth were both members of the Nameless Club, a literary discussion group. Johnston was involved in the local poetry scene in Buffalo, NY, and somewhat of an activist regarding environmental conversation. CONTENTS: Abraham Lincoln; The Guard on the Rhine; An Artistic Alchemist; In Vain, O Man, Contending; Thanksgiving Hymn; Christmas; New Year's Day, 1909; A Friend's Advice; Gerrit Smith; Saint Augustine; Lars Gustave Sellstedt; Welton M. Modisette; Impromptus; To Any One Intending to Publish a Book; Inspiration on the Fly Lead of Mrs. J. D.; L's Poets and Poetry of Buffalo; To Mrs. C.B.S.; To Mrs. J.J.A.; On Receiving a Letter-Balance from Mr. and Mrs. F.M.H.; Halycon; To J.V.W. Annan; Material Prosperity; Eiche-Ruhe; To a Voyager Bound for the Orient; To Rabbi Falk and Mrs. Falk on Their Silver Wedding Anniversary; A Good Man's Birthday; Glen Iris Poems; Glen Iris; A Memory; There's a Beautiful Spot by the Wild Genesee; Rest; The Happy Valley; A Picture; To M.F.; To Glen Iris; Donegal Memories; Longings; Memories; Extract from an Address; Gartan; Creeslough Fair; The Sand Eel Strand; Fame; The Wreck of the Frigate Saldana; Robert Bermingham Clements; A Boy's Fishing; Little Nora; Shan; To Hon, Willian Pryor Letchworth, LL.D.; The Caoine; Thoughts on Hearing of the Death of The Last Stewart of Ards; The Bridge of Cloon; The Woods of Ards. ILLUSTRATIONS: Portrait of Author; Albright Art Gallery; View from Prospect Farm; Inspiration Point; Middle Falls; West Lawn; Rock-Bound Battlements; Deh-Ga-Ya-Soh; House and Grounds at Glen Iris; Glenveagh Castle and Grounds; Columbkille Church, Gartan; Lower Creeslough; Cockle Strand, Carrigart - Ards Woods in the Distance; Map of Donegal; North Side of Lough Swilly, Lagan Beyond; Donegal Hills by Moonlight; Doe Castle, Ards Estate, Sheep Haven Bay; Here Where Niagara's Waters Flow; Bridges of Cloon; Woods of Ards, Front Strand, Sheep Haven Bay; Muckish from the South.
