Special acknowledgment is here made to the Saturday Magazine of the New York Evening Post for use of many stories included in this volume, which I have written for its columns.

Grateful acknowledgment is due also to the following publishers for material from their books:—

To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, for “The Sick-Bed Elves,” from Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures, by George SouliÉ; “The Brown Dwarf of RÜgen,” by John Greenleaf Whittier; “The Immortal Fountain,” and “A Little Knight and Little Maid,” by Lucy Larcom.

To Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., for “Little Niebla,” from The Purple Land, by W. H. Hudson.

Thanks are due to Mrs. Anna Todd Paddock for “Timothy Tuttle and the Little Imps,” and to Miss Julia Fish for the French stories specially translated for this volume.

F.J.O.