uent one,--who reserve all their rights. So
far as practicable, permission has been secured also for poems out of
copyright.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

Messrs. D. APPLETON & Co., New York.--_W.C. Bryant_: "Blessed are They
that Mourn," "The Conqueror's Grave," "Thanatopsis."

Messrs. E.P. DUTTON & Co., New York.--_Mary W. Howland_: "Rest."

The FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, New York.--_John W. Palmer_: "For Charlie's
Sake."

Messrs. HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.--_Will Carleton_: "Over the Hill to
the Poor House."

Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co., Boston.--_Margaret Deland_: "Love and
Death;" _John Hay_: "A Woman's Love;" _O.W. Holmes_: "The Last Leaf,"
"The Voiceless;" _Mary Clemmer A. Hudson_: "Something Beyond;" _H.W.
Longfellow_: "Death of Minnehaha," "Footsteps of Angels," "God's Acre,"
"The Rainy Day," "The Reaper and the Flowers," "Resignation;" _J.R.
Lowell_: "Auf Wiedersehen," "First Snow Fall," "Palinode;" _Harriet W.
Preston_: "Fidelity in Doubt;" _Margaret E. Sangster_: "Are the Children
at Home?" _E.R. Sill_: "A Morning Thought;" _Harriet E. Spofford_: "The
Nun and Harp;" _Harriet B. Stowe_: "Lines to the Memory of Annie." "Only
a Year;" _J.T. Trowbridge_: "Dorothy in the Garret;" _J.G. Whittier_:
"To Her Absent Sailor," "Angel of Patience," "Maud Muller."

Mr. JOHN LANE, New York.--_R. Le Gallienne_: "Song," "What of the
Darkness?"

Messrs. LITTLE, BROWN & Co., Boston.--_J.W. Chadwick_: "The Two
Waitings;" _Helen Hunt Jackson_: "Habeas Corpus."

The LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston.--_Paul H. Hayne_: "In Harbor."

Messrs. G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York.--_Elaine Goodale Eastman_: "Ashes
of Roses;" _R.C. Rogers_: "The Shadow Rose."

Messrs. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York.--_R. Bridges (Droch)_: "The
Unillumined Verge;" _Mary Mapes Dodge_: "The Two Mysteries;" _Julia C.R.
Dorr_: "Hush" (Afterglow).

II.

American poems in this volume by the authors whose names are given below
are the copyrighted property of the authors, or of their representatives
named in parenthesis, and may not be reprinted without their permission,
which for the present work has been courteously granted.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

_W.R. Alger; Mrs. Amelia E. Barr; Henry A. Blood_ (Mrs. R.E. Whitman);
_Robert J. Burdette; John Burroughs; Mary A. De Vere; Nathan H. Dole;
William C. Gannett; Dr. Silas W. Mitchell; Mrs. Sarah M. Piatt; Walt
Whitman_ (H. Traubel, Literary Executor).