ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
All rights on poems and prose in this volume are reserved by the authorized publisher, the author, or the holder of copyright, with whom special arrangements have been made for including such material in this work. The editor expresses thanks for such permission as indicated below.
D. Appleton & Company: For “To a Mosquito” by William Cullen Bryant; “Tushmaker’s Tooth-Puller” by G. H. Derby; and for “The Sad End of Brer Wolf” by Joel C. Harris, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings.
The Century Co.: For an extract from the “Chimmie Fadden” stories; and for the poem “What’s in a Name?” by R. K. Munkittrick.
David McKay Company: For “Ballad of the Noble Ritter Hugo” by Charles G. Leland.
Dodd, Mead and Company: For “At the Sign of the Cock” by Owen Seaman; “Here Is the Tale” by Anthony C. Deane; and “On a Fan” and “The Rondeau” by Austin Dobson.
Forbes & Company: For “If I Should Die To-Night” and “The Pessimist” by Ben King.
Harper & Brothers: For “Elegy” and “Mavrone” by Arthur Guiterman. With the permission of the Estate of Samuel L. Clemens, the Mark Twain Company, and Harper & Brothers, publishers, with a full reservation of all copyright privileges is included an extract from the “Jumping Frog” by Mark Twain.
Hurst & Company: For an extract from “Bill Nye.”
Houghton Mifflin Company: With their permission and by special arrangement with them as authorized publishers of the following authors’ works, are used selections from: Charles E. Carryl, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James T. Fields, Bret Harte, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John G. Saxe, E. R. Sill, Bayard Taylor.
Little, Brown & Company: For five limericks and “The Two Old Bachelors” from Nonsense Books.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: For “A Philosopher” by Sam Walter Foss from Dreams in Homespun; also for an extract from “The Partington Papers” by B. P. Shillaber.
The Macmillan Company: For verses from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Charles Scribner’s Sons: For “Two Men” and “Miniver Cheevy” by E. A. Robinson from The Children of the Night and The Town Down the River.
Small, Maynard & Company: For an extract from Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley).