Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors were repaired. Otherwise, period spellings, grammatical uses and hyphenation inconsistencies were retained.

Formatting varied throughout the original. This was standardized.

Author portraits have been relocated between their biographical introductions and the beginning of their writings.

Some poetry stanza breaks were inconsistent in the original (for example, "In the Land of Fancy"); retained.

Old style ellipses (* * *) have been converted to standard ellipses.

P. 84, "Which Are You?" replaced ending period with question mark.

P. 156, "clear in the light of the moon"; original reads "noon."

P. 221, "p. 11718"; verified elsewhere and retained. Some sources reference "p. 117- 18."

P. 273, a shorter than normal thought break was in the original; retained.

P. 286, Under "Other Wisconsin Writers"; Both "Charlotta Perry" and "Carlotta Perry's" are present in the original; retained.

P. 291, "Bill" Nye; original had no footnote marker. The marker for footnote 3 was added by the transcriber.

P. 297, "Nightingale" sketches, of which one is here given," originally was placed between "eight or ten years he en-" and "deared himself to the readers." The misplaced line has been repositioned correctly.

P. 299, index; "Thomas, Herbert Dickinson," was listed in the "D"s in the original; retained.