THE grateful acknowledgements of the publishers are due to Houghton Mifflin Company, authorized publishers of the works of Mary Antin, Katherine Mayo, John Muir, and Dallas Lore Sharp, for permission to include certain selections from the works of those authors, and for their further permission to print a chapter from the Autobiography of Professor Shaler; to Messrs. Harper and Brothers, the Estate of the late Samuel L. Clemens, and the Mark Twain Company, for permission to reprint selections from the works of Mark Twain; and to Willis Boyd Allen, John Kendrick Bangs, Mrs. William Wilfred Campbell (in respect of the poems of her late husband), Bliss Carman, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Grace Hazard Conkling, Florence Gilmore, M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Laura Spencer Portor Pope, Arthur Ketchum, Lily Long, Elsie Singmaster Lewars, and Mary Herrick Smith. |