ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Reading edition
The editor would like to thank the publishers and the authors of the following volumes for permission to reprint certain things from them:
George H. Doran Company—for Heywood Broun’s “Mr. Dempsey’s Five-Foot Shelf” from Pieces of Hate; Aline Kilmer’s “On Works of Reference” from Hunting a Hair Shirt and Other Spiritual Adventures; Oliver Herford’s “The Hundredth Amendment” from Neither Here Nor There.
Duffield and Company—for John Erskine’s “Spotlight or Fame” from The Literary Discipline.
Century Company—for Alexander Woollcott’s “O. Henry, Playwright” from Shouts and Murmurs.
Harcourt, Brace & Co.—for Kenneth Macgowan’s “Religion and the Theatre” from Continental Stagecraft.