That this excuse for the demand colonial c student an essayed a ta school cur Better s correlation enough from Bret Harte and from Thomas Bailey Aldrich were not so few in number. The book, however, is fairly comprehensive. Especially do we acknowledge our indebtedness to many publishers for permission to use material still in copyright — to Houghton Mifflin Company for selections from the early New England poets and from Harte, Aldrich, Sill, Warner, and Stedman; to Charles Scribner's Sons for Sidney Lanier and Eugene Field; to the B. F. Johnson Publishing Co. for Henry Timrod; to Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. for Paul Hamilton Hayne; to Mr. Horace Traubel for Walt Whitman; to the Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co. for Joaquin Miller; to Little, Brown, and Company for Emily Dickinson; and to The Bobbs-Merrill Company for James Whitcomb Riley. MARY E. CALHOUN EMMA L. MACALARNEY |