Introductory material

Acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers of the works of Eugene Field, for permission to use the poem entitled “The Wanderer”; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of the works of H. W. Longfellow and J. G. Whittier, for the use of “The Village Blacksmith” and “The Corn Song”; and to The J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers of the poems of T. Buchanan Read, for the piece entitled “The Stranger on the Sill.”