ham for poetical lines; to the author and to the Century Company for five selections from R. W. Gilder's "Five Books of Song"; to Rev. John W. Chadwick for selections from his poems; to Rev. Robert Collyer for a letter, an extract from "Things New and Old," published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., one from a sermon preached in Unity Church, Chicago, and seven from "Nature and Life," published by Messrs. Lee & Shepard; to the author and to Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for a selection from "Every Living Creature" by Ralph Waldo Trine; to Mr. J. G. Cupples for a poem by Mrs. H. J. Lewis; to a daughter of the author for selections from "The Two Great Commandments" by Orville Dewey; to Mrs. Julia P. Dabney for a selection from "Songs of Destiny and Others," published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co.; to Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for two quotations from the writings of Phillips Brooks; to Rev. Charles G. Ames for extracts from his sermons, to Miss Elizabeth P. Channing for an extract from a letter written by William Ellery Channing to a young relative in college, contained in her "Kindling Thoughts," to a son of the author for an extract from "Sermons and Lectures" by William J. Potter,-all published by the Geo. H. Ellis Company; to the Geo. H. Ellis Company for an extract from "The Oriental Christ," five from "The Spirit of God," and nineteen from "Heart Beats," by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar; to the author and to the Evangelical Publishing Company, Chicago, for two stanzas of the hymn "The Brooding of God's

Love," by Mrs. Mary O. Page; to the author and to Messrs. Forbes & Co. for two selections from "A Book of Verses" by Nixon Waterman; to Rev. Joseph H. Foy for a quotation from his writings; to a son of the author for a quotation from the writings of Ezra Stiles Gannett; to Rev. William C. Gannett for a selection from "A Year of Miracle," published by the Geo. H. Ellis Company, one from "The Faith that makes Faithful," published by Charles H. Kerr & Co., and two from "Of Making One's Self Beautiful," published by James Pott & Co.; to Rev. Edward Everett Hale for an extract from a sermon; to a son of the author for an extract from a sermon by Frederic H. Hedge; to Miss Emma Endicott Hicks for her poem "Courage"; to a daughter of the author for an extract from a sermon by Thomas Hill; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for two excerpts from the poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, one from "The Destiny of Man" by John Fiske, two from hymns of William H. Furness, one from poems of Louise Imogen Guiney, two from hymns of Samuel Longfellow, four from poems of James Russell Lowell, three from "King's Chapel Sermons" by Andrew P. Peabody, one from poems of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, one from poems of Edith Thomas, one from poems of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward), one from "Miss Curtis" by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, five from poems of John G. Whittier, and, especially, for eleven from poems and prose of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and upwards of forty from the poetical and prose works of Ralph

Waldo Emerson; to Rev. James Vila Blake for a selection from his "Essays," to Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones for a selection from "Foundations of Faith," to Rev. E. P. Powell for one from "Liberty and Life," -all published by Charles H. Kerr & Co.; to the authors and to Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. for three quotations from the writings of William R. Alger, and seven from "The Thought of God" by Frederick L. Hosmer and William C. Gannett; to Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. for a selection from the poems of Emily Dickinson, one from the poems of Mrs. Helen M. (Hunt) Jackson, one from "The World Beautiful" by Lilian Whiting, and one from "Holy Songs, Carols and Sacred Ballads"; to the authors and to Messrs. Lee & Shepard for lines by Sam Walter Foss, four quotations from "All's Right with the World" by Charles B. Newcomb, three from "Ideal Suggestions through Mental Photography" and nine from "The Symphony of Life,"—both volumes by Henry Wood; to Messrs. Lee & Shepard for three quotations from the poems of David Wasson; to Rev. Lyman Abbott and to the Lothrop Publishing Company for selections from "New Streams in Old Channels"; to a son of the author for a selection from the poems of Mrs. Caroline Atherton Mason; to Rev. Joseph May for selections from his sermons; to Mr. Edwin Markham for five selections from "Lincoln and Other Poems," and one from "The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems,"--both volumes published by Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co.; to Mr. George S. Mer

riam for a quotation from his writings; to Mr. Joaquin Miller for a selection from "Songs of the Sunlands"; to a grandson of the author for selections from "Remembered Words" of Ichabod Nichols; to the Executor and Trustee of Mrs. O'Reilly's Estate for two poems from "Songs from the Southern Seas" by John Boyle O'Reilly; to Rev. Frederic Rowland Marvin for his poem "Kindness" and a selection from "Flowers of Song from Many Lands," with permission to adapt the latter, published by Pafræts Book Company; to the Pilgrim Press for extracts from "Norwood" and "Sermons" by Henry Ward Beecher; to the author and to Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for ten citations from "Methods and Problems of Spiritual Healing" by Horatio W. Dresser; to the authors and to the Christian Register for two quotations from the writings of Nicholas E. Boyd, one from Howard N. Brown, one from Alice M. Dickey, one from Mrs. Charlotte C. Eliot, one-a poem-from Henrietta R. Eliot, one from William H. Lyon, one-a poem-from Mrs. Mary V. Priest, one from Charles E. St. John, and one from Francis Tiffany; also, published in the Christian Register, two quotations from the writings of William M. Bicknell, one from James Freeman Clarke, one from Charles Carroll Everett, one from Richard Fuller, one from N. A. Staples, a poem by C. E. Briggs, a poem by William Newell, and a poem by William P. Tilden; to Rev. A. Judson Rich for two poems; to Mrs. Ella Giles Ruddy for a poem from "Flowers of the Spirit";

to Mr. William M. Salter for an extract from "Ethical Religion"; to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons and to Messrs. Chatto & Windus, London, for an extract from "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers" by Robert Louis Stevenson; to Rev. Ernest Warburton Shurtleff for a poem written when he was about seventeen years of age, intended as a pen picture of his own grandmother "who was of the kingdom of heaven before she left this world"; to Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (a grand-daughter of Lyman Beecher) for five excerpts from "In This Our World," published by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.; to Mr. Gelett Burgess for a poem, published by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.; to Mr. Horace Fletcher for seven excerpts from "Menticulture or The A-B-C of True Living" and one from "Happiness,"--both volumes published by Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co.; to the American Tract Society for "The Porcelain Cup" by Laura Sanford, first published in the New York Observer; to Mr. Arthur E. Locke for his poem "Be Calm, my Soul," published in the Boston Transcript; to the United Society of Christian Endeavor for “A Rose Tree," "Tears," and four lines from "The Last Day,"all contained in "A Fence of Trust" by Mary Frances Butts; to the Administrator of the author's Estate for the poem "The Soul" in "Hymns Original and Selected" by Robert C. Waterston; to Mr. James H. West for an extract from "The Evolution of Medical Science," a lecture given before the Brooklyn