ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In addition to special credit given in connection with certain poems and extracts, grateful acknowledgment is hereby extended to the following authors, publishers, and publications for permission to use copyrighted selections: The Cornhill Company for “ I am an American" by Elias Lieberman; Dodd, Mead & Company, Publishers, for Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Merry Autumn"; Doubleday, Page & Company for “ Jarro,

' the Wild Duck" from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf; P. J. Kenedy & Sons, for “Better Than Gold” by Abram J. Ryan; Franklin K. Lane for his “Makers of the Flag"; and The Peace Association of Friends in America for “Little Athens' Message” by Anna Doan Stephens.

“The Wrath of the Winds," from Raymond McFarland's Skipper John of the Nimbus, is used by special permission of the publishers, The Macmillan Company.

“Work” is used by permission of the author, Angela Morgan, whose publishers are John Lane & Company, New York and London, and of The Outlook, in which the poem first appeared.

The selections from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry W. Longfellow are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of these authors.

Acknowledgment is due the American Book Company for permission to use selections by the following authors: James Baldwin, Frank G. Carpenter, John Esten Cooke, James Johonnot, Agnes Vinton Luther, John R. Musick, Mary F. NixonRoulet, Katherine Pyle, Eleanor L. Skinner, and E. A. Turner.