ACKNOWLEDGMENT. FOR courteous permission to use an extract from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the compiler is indebted to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorised publishers; to Mr. John Lane for many favours, notably for the copious extracts from Mr. R. C. Lehmann's "Anni Fugaces," and from Edward Cracroft Lefroy's "Life and Works "; to the Macmillan Company for extracts from the works of the Rev. Thomas Edward Brown, Arthur Hugh Clough, and James Kenneth Stephen; to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for a fragment from Robert Louis Stevenson; and to Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co. for the stanzas from Mr. Henry Walcott Boynton's "The Golfer's Rubáiyát." Grateful acknowledgment is due to the following British poets: the Rev. Henry Charles Beeching, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Messrs. Arthur Christopher Benson, Robert Bridges, Norman Gale, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Edward Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, Edward Verrall Lucas, Henry Newbolt, Henry Cholmondeley Pennell, Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, and Owen Seaman. Also to the following Canadian poets: Miss E. Pauline Johnson and Messrs. George Herbert Clarke, Charles George Douglas Roberts and Arthur Weir; and to Mr. James Bain, chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library, for an exhaustive, though vain, search for verses relating to La Crosse and Tobogganing among the poets of the Dominion. Also to the following American poets: Messrs. Arlo Bates, Robert Bridges-"Droch," William Hamilton Cline, Charles H. Crandall, Arthur Grissom, William Lindsey, Edward Sandford Martin, Lloyd Mifflin, Arthur Stanwood Pier, George Santayana, L. Frank Tooker, Alfred James Waterhouse, William Wallace Whitelock, Franklin Baldwin Wiley, and George Edward Woodberry. And thanks in an especial degree are accorded to Miss Ethel le Roy de Koven, and to Messrs. Franklin P. Adams, Roswell Martin Field, Horace Spencer Fiske, Francis Bowler Keene, Samuel Ellsworth Kiser, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Charles Edward Russell, and Clinton Scollard, who have placed at the compiler's disposal verses of theirs not otherwise accessible. In conclusion it is pleasant to record that in this, the first attempt in any language to gather |