Acknowledgment is hereby gratefully made to the publishers of the various poems included in this compilation. Those by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John G. Saxe, Edward Rowland Sill, John Hay, Bayard Taylor and Edith Thomas are published by permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The poems by Anthony Deane and Owen Seaman are used by arrangement with John Lane. Through the courtesy of Small, Maynard & Co., are included poems by Bliss Carman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson-Gilman, Stephen Crane, and Frederic Ridgely Torrence. Poems by Sam Walter Foss are published by permission of Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Co. The Century Co. are the publishers of poems by Richard Watson Gilder and Mary Mapes Dodge. Frederich A. Stokes Company give permission for poems by Gelett Burgess and Stephen Crane. “The Buntling Ball,” by Edgar Fawcett is published by permission of Funk and Wagnalls Company; “Hoch der Kaiser” by Rodney Blake, by the courtesy of the New Amsterdam Book Co. The poems by James Jeffrey Roche by permission of E. H. Bacon & Co.; and “The Font in the Forest” by Herman Knickerbocker VielÉ, by permission of Brentano’s. “The Evolution of a Name,” by Charles Battell Loomis, is quoted from “Just Rhymes,” Copyright, 1899, by R. H. Russell. “He and She,” by Eugene Fitch Ware, is published by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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