ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The thanks of the editors are due to the following persons for permission to reprint certain of their own works: Miss Katharine Lee Bates, Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mr. Edgar Lee Masters, Mr. Edwin Markham, Mr. H. L. Mencken, and the late Stuart. P. Sherman. The following publishers have generously consented to the reprinting of material indicated, controlled by them as holders of the copyright, or authorized publishers, or both: D. APPLETON & COMPANY: all poems by Bryant. THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY: all poems by Riley. THE CENTURY Co.: "The Strenuous Life," by Roosevelt, and all selections from Lincoln except two letters. The Lincoln material is taken from Lincoln's Complete Works, edited by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY: all selections from "O. Henry," Walt Whitman, and Walter Hines Page. HARPER & BROTHERS: all selections from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. HARPER & BROTHERS, and MISS MILDRED HOWELLS, and MR. JOHN MEAD HOWELLS: a selection from the works of W. D. Howells. HARR WAGNER PUBLISHING COMPANY: all poems by Joaquin Miller. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY: The selections from Henry Adams, the poetical work of T. B. Aldrich, Burroughs, Emerson, Gilder, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Holmes, Amy Lowell, J. R. Lowell, Moody, E. R. Sill, Stedman, Celia Thaxter, and Thoreau, are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers. The following poems by Longfellow are used by permission of, and special arrange- The following poems by Whittier are used by permission of, and special arrangement HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY: all poems by Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost. ALFRED KNOPF, INC.: an essay by H. L. Mencken, and all poems by Stephen Crane. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY: all poems by Emily Dickinson. LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.: all poems by Paul H. Hayne. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY: all selections from F. M. Crawford, Henry James, vi THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, and MR. T. O. MABBOTT: all poems by Pinkney. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS: two letters by Lincoln, taken from their "Constitutional Edition" of Lincoln's writings. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS: all poems by Eugene Field, Sidney Lanier, R. H. Stoddard, and Alan Seeger; three poems by E. A. Robinson; and an essay by Stuart P. Sherman. SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY: all poems by John Banister Tabb and Richard Hovey. |