ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE selections from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry D. Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alice Cary, and James Russell Lowell are used by permission of, and special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers of the works of those authors.

Acknowledgments for the use of copyright matter are also extended to publishers and authors as follows: To Charles Scribner's Sons, for the selection from J. G. Holland's "Arthur Bonnicastle"; to John Muir, for the extract from his work on "The Mountains of California "; to the Century Company and to Walter A. Wyckoff, for the selection entitled "Among the Icebergs"; to Samuel Minturn Peck, for his poem "Autumn's Mirth"; and to Alma Holman Burton for the adaptation of her "Story of Lafayette."

Acknowledgments are also due to Mr. W. J. Button of Chicago for valuable assistance rendered in connection with the preparation of this volume.