The illustrations form a feature of unusual interest. Author-portraits possess an acknowledged educational value; the other pictures have been carefully selected not only to add to the attractiveness of the book, but also to interpret in some measure the spirit of the poems. An appeal to the eye will often bring home to the young reader some fresh significance which otherwise would escape his attention. For friendly advice and assistance the Editor is indebted to Miss Katharine Shute, of the Boston Normal School; to Dr. Dudley Miles of the Evander Childs High School, New York; to Mr. Archibald Rutledge, of Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; to Mr. Edward B. Richards, of the University of the State of New York, Albany; and to Mr. Wilbur W. Hatfield, of the Chicago Normal School. SIMMONS COLLEGE, BOSTON. A. B. DE MILLE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The following firms and individuals have courteously given permission for the use of copyrighted material: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: selections from the works of Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes, Poe, Bret Harte, John Hay, Bayard Taylor. Also the following poems: The Garden by Moonlight, Amy Lowell; The Wild Ride and Sanctuary, Louise Imogen Guiney; The Fool's Prayer, Edward Rowland Sill; On a Greek Vase, Frank Dempster Sherman; Dusk, Clinton Scollard Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: The Song of the Chattahoo- Small, Maynard and Company, Boston: Clover, John Banister Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, N. Y.: selections from the works of Walt Whitman. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia: Dirge for a Soldier, George Henry Boker. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Old Swimmin'Hole and Wind of the Sea, James Whitcomb Riley. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, Boston: selections from the poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne. Johnson Publishing Company, Richmond, Va.: At Magnolia Cemetery and The Past, Henry Timrod. Harr Wagner Publishing Company, San Francisco: Columbus and Westward Ho!, Joaquin Miller. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, and the Author: A Farmer Remembers Lincoln, Witter Bynner. Henry Holt and Company, New York: The Tuft of Flowers and The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost; Three Pieces on the E. P. Dutton and Company, New York: Unseen Spirits, from Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J.: selections from the works of Philip Freneau. The Youth's Companion, Boston: The Flag Goes By, Henry Holcomb Bennett. The Atlantic Monthly, Boston: The Blue and the Gray, Francis Miles Finch. E. H. Ware: Quivera — Kansas, 1542-1892, Eugene Fitch Ware. Edwin Markham: The Man with the Hoe and A Mendocino Memory. Katharine Lee Bates: America the Beautiful. Hamlin Garland: Do You Fear the Wind? and In the Grass. Ernest McGaffey: Mark! Professor Benjamin Sledd: The Children, from his copyrighted volume Watchers of the Hearth. Theodosia (Garrison) Faulks: The Green Inn. Edwin Arlington Robinson: Miniver Cheevy and Flammonde. |