ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following authors and publishers for permission to use selections from their copyrighted publications: The American Magazine, for selections by Marston T. Bogert, Harry A. Stewart, and James A. House. The American Review of Reviews, for a selection by Sylvester Baxter. Walter E. Andrews and The Youth's Companion, for "Dick and His Peaches." Martin Armstrong and G. P. Putnam's Sons, for "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping." The Association Press, for a selection from Around the Fire, by Hanford M. Burr. Richard G. Badger, publisher, for a poem from The Road to Everywhere, by Glenn Ward Dresbach. William E. Barton, for "A Parable of White Paper." Bobbs-Merrill Company, for "Ike Walton's Prayer," by James Whitcomb Riley. The Campfire Girls, Incorporated, for the "Ode to Fire." The Century Company, for a poem, "The Song of the World," by Isabel Bowman Finley; selections by Cleveland Moffett, from Careers of Danger and Daring; by Helen Davenport, from The Century Magazine; by Edwin E. Slosson, from Creative Chemistry, copyright 1919; by John Luther Long, from Prince of Illusion and Other Stories; by Katherine Dunlap Cather, from Boyhood Stories of Famous Men; by Francis A. Collins, from The Wireless Man; and for a story, "Getting Up to Date," by Roberta Wayne. Chautauqua Press, for a selection by Frederick Starr, from Some First Steps in Human Progress. Contemporary Verse, for "The Civil Engineers," by Phoebe Hoffman. W. B. Conkey Company, for "Which Are You?," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Frank Crane and Current Opinion, for "Boy Wanted." Dodd, Mead & Company, for a selection by Stephen Leacock; for "Work," by Angela Morgan, from The Hour Has Struck; and for selections from Insect Adventures, by Jean Henri Fabre, copyright 1917. For a poem from Songs of the Workaday World, by Berton Braley, copyright 1915; and for a poem from The Fiery Cross, by John Oxenham, copyright 1918, by George H. Doran Company, New York. Doubleday, Page & Company, for selections by Stanley Waterloo from The Story of Ab; by Ray Stannard Baker from The Boy's Book of Inventions; for "A Deal in Wheat," by Frank Norris; for "A Romance of a Busy Broker," by O. Henry, in The V |