Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
Author: first_name: Alfred Castner
last_name: King
Language: English
Year: 1901

"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded literature, unless it should contain something in the nature of a deviation from beaten literary paths.<br><br>

Whether the reading public will regard this as such or not is a question for the future to determine, as every book is a creature of circumstance, and at the date of its publication an algebraic unknown quantity.<br><br>

It was not the original intenti