In addition to those to whose kind permission the compiler is indebted
for the privilege of using the various copyright poems in this and previous
editions, he would return his thanks to Mr. Eugene Field and his pub-
lishers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, for the use of "Little Boy Blue" on
page 72, and Mr. James Whitcomb Riley and his publishers, Messrs. Bowen,
Merrill & Co., for that of "When She Comes Home Again" on page 28.