Charles Follen Adams

“ The poems immediately following, to page 255 inclusive, comprised the second volume, entitled "Dialect Ballads, by Yawcob Strauss," published in 1888. The additional poems are those that have been written since the latter date. In the preface of his first book the author alluded to the crudities incident to a writer's first collection of poems, particularly when that writer was a business man, moving only in the mercantile world. ”