THE NEW YORK ASTOR LENOX AND 1918 L Copyright, 1898 By Frederick A. Stokes Company PREFACE. The editor is indebted to Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to use poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Eugene Field, J. G. Holland and Saxe Holm. To Harper and Brothers for permission to use poems by W. D. Howells, Bessie Chandler and E. Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake; also for the poems by Margaret E. Sangster, from "Little Knights and Ladies." To Roberts Brothers for permission to use poems by Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson and Louise Chandler Moulton. To The Century Company for permission to use poems by Alice Williams Brotherton, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Alice Wellington Rollins. To The Bowen-Merrill Company for permission to use poems by James Whitcomb Riley. To The Outlook Company and to Dodd, Mead and Company for permission to use poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. To Copeland and Day for permission to use poems by Clinton Scollard. |