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Acknowledgments
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To J. B. Lippincott Company we are indebted for the use of "Sheridan's Ride," from the complete works of T. Buchanan Read.
To Harper & Brothers for the use of "Driving Home the Cows," by Kate Putnam Osgood.
To Little, Brown & Company, of Boston, "How the Leaves Came Down," by Susan Coolidge.
To the Whitaker & Ray Company, of San Francisco, "Columbus," by Joaquin Miller, from his complete works published and copyrighted by that company.
To D. Appleton & Company for "The Planting of the Apple-Tree" and "Robert of Lincoln," from the complete works of William Cullen Bryant; also for "Marco Bozzaris," from the works of Fitz-Greene Halleck.
To the Macmillan Company for "The Forsaken Merman," by Matthew Arnold, from the complete volume of his poems published by that company.
To the Howard University Print, Washington, D. C., for Jeremiah Rankin's little poem, "The Babie," from "Ingleside Rhaims."
To the heirs of Mary Emily Bradley for "A Chrysalis."
To Henry Holcomb Bennett for "The Flag Goes By."