The Frederick A. Stokes Company for "Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt," from Wolfville Nights, by Alfred Henry Lewis; "The Bohemians of Boston," "The Purple Cow" and "Nonsense Verses," from The Burgess Nonsense Book, by Gelett Burgess, and "My Grandmother's Turkey-tail Fan," "Little Bopeep and Little Boy Blue" and "My Sweetheart," by Samuel Minturn Peck.
The Tandy-Wheeler Publishing Company for "Utah," "A New Year Idyl," "The Warrior," "Lost Chords" and "The Advertiser," from A Little Book of Tribune Verse, by Eugene Field.
Thompson & Thomas for "The Grammatical Boy," by Edgar Wilson Nye ("Bill Nye").
The A. Wessels Company for "The Dying Gag," by James L. Ford.
M. Witmark & Sons for "Walk," from Jim Marshall's New Pianner, by William Devere.
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