HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

NOTE

THE compiler wishes to express his obligations to the following publishers, who have most generously allowed selections to be made from the authors on their lists: Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.; The Bowen-Merrill Company; George H. Ellis; C. P. Farrell; Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; P. J. Kennedy; Lee & Shepard; The Macmillan Company; George P. Putnam's Sons; Roberts Brothers; Charles Scribner's Sons; Frederick A. Stokes Company, and Stone & Kimball.

Thanks are especially due to the following authors, who have with uniform courtesy personally given permission for this use of their writings: Messrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Vance Cheney, William Dean Howells, William James, George Klingle, Josiah Royce, Goldwin Smith, and Richard Henry Stoddard; also to Horace L. Traubel, who has allowed three selections to be made from the works of the late Walt Whitman, and to Mrs. Helen M. Reeve Aldrich for permitting the reprinting of a poem by her gifted daughter, the late Anne Reeve Aldrich.