The Century Company, for poems by Richard Watson Gilder.
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, for poems by James Whitcomb Riley.
Harper & Brothers, for poems by Edward Sandford Martin.
Small, Maynard & Co., for poems by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The Rev. D. C. Knowles, for poems by Frederic Lawrence Knowles, especially from "Love Triumphant," published by Dana, Estes & Company.
The Rev. Frederic Rowland Marvin, for poems from his "Flowers of Song from Many Lands."
Professor Amos R. Wells, for poems from his "Just to Help."
Mr. Nixon Waterman, for poems from "In Merry Mood," published by Forbes & Co., of Chicago.
The selections from the above American authors are used by special arrangements with the firms mentioned, who are the only authorized publishers of their works. Many other poems used have been found in papers or other places which gave no indication of the original source. In spite of much effort to trace these things it is quite likely we have failed in some cases to give due credit or obtain the usual permission; and we hope that if such omissions, due to ignorance or inadvertence, are noticed they will be pardoned. Many unknown writers have left behind them some things of value, but their names have become detached from them or perhaps never were appended. Many volumes consulted have been long out of print.