Thanks are due the publishers for permission to use the following selections: An Itinerant Pioneer Preacher, from Maurice Thompson's Stories of Indiana, The American Book Company; The Cabin in the Forest, from Hezekiah Butterworth's In the Days of Audubon, To a Waterfowl, by William Cullen Bryant, D. Appleton and Company; My Mother, from Pierre Loti's The Story of a Child, C. C. Birchard and Company; What makes a Nation, by W. D. Nesbit, A Song and The Name of Old Glory, by James Whitcomb Riley, The Bobbs-Merrill Company; Where do the Birds Sleep, by Dallas Lore Sharp, The Happy Life, from American Contributions to Civilization, by Charles William Eliot, The Century Company; Language that needs a Rest, by Willis B. Hawkins, Louis Klopsch; Paul Revere's Ride, from The Centennial of the Concord Fight, by George William Curtis, Sunday in Central Park, from Vignettes of Manhattan, by Brander Matthews, Harper and Brothers; The Past, by Henry Timrod, B. F. Johnson Publishing Company; Romulus and the Beginning of Rome, by Caroline and Samuel B. Harding, Scott, Foresman and Company; Columbus, from The New Complete Poems of Joaquin Miller, The Whitaker and Ray Company. The selections from Peabody, Aldrich, Thoreau, Longfellow, Sill, Burroughs, Holmes, Larcom, Warner, Lowell, Muir, and Emerson are reprinted by permission and special arrangement. with the publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company. The selections from Helen Hunt Jackson, Alcott, and Parkman are reprinted by permission and special arrangement with Little, Brown, and Company. |