ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



My sincere thanks are due to all the authors 

 who have courteously permitted me to include their 

 work in this volume, which otherwise would have 

 been hopelessly inadequate. Also to Mr. Marriott 

 Watson, who has allowed me to reprint Mrs. Mar- 

 riott Watson's two admirable poems, and to Mrs. 

 Charles Dudley Warner, who has given me the ex- 

 tract from Mr. Warner's "Calvin." Also to 

 Harper and Brothers, publishers of Mr. Swin- 

 burne's poems and of Mr. Janvier's stories ; to The 

 Macmillan Company, publishers of Mr. Matthew 

 Arnold's letters and poems; to D. Appleton and 

 Company, publishers of Mr. Huxley's life and let- 

 ters ; to the Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers 

 of Mr. Warner's " Calvin, a Study of Character " ; 

 to Mr. John Lane, publisher of Mr. Benson's and 

 of Mrs. Marriott Watson's poems; to Charles 

 Scribner's Sons, publishers of Mr. Herford's 

 poems ; and to Mr. William Heinemann, publisher 

 of Margaret Benson's " The Soul of a Cat." 



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