EDITOR'S NOTE 



THE editor wishes to make grateful acknowledgment 

 of the courtesy shown her by Mr. Theodore Watts- 

 Dunton, in his kind permission to include in this 

 collection Mr. Swinburne's " A Forsaken Garden " ; 

 cordial thanks are extended also to Mr. William 

 Dean Howells, to Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, to Mrs. 

 Hinkson, to Mrs. Gurney, to Mrs. Payne Whitney, to 

 Mr. Rossiter W. Raymond, and to Mr. Bliss Carman 

 for the use of their own poems ; to Mrs. William 

 Sharp for her kindness in permitting the use of 

 "The White Peacock" and the passages from 

 Rosa Mystica, by Fiona Macleod ; and to Mr. 

 Lloyd Osbourne for the poems of Robert Louis 

 Stevenson. 



To the following publishers, in England and 

 America, the editor takes pleasure in acknowledg- 

 ing her indebtedness : 



Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for permis- 

 sion to use "The Old Garden," by Mrs. Deland ; 

 "Tiger Lilies," by Mr. T. B. Aldrich ; "Spring 

 Has Come," "The Golden Flower," and the pas- 

 sages from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 

 by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Botanist" and the 



