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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MY sincere thanks are due to all the authors who have courteously permitted me to include their work in this volume, which otherwise would have been hopelessly inadequate. Also to Mr. Marriott Watson, who has allowed me to reprint Mrs. Marriott Watson's two admirable poems, and to Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, who has given me the extract from Mr. Warner's " Calvin." Also to Harper and Brothers, publishers of Mr. Swinburne's poems and of Mr. Janvier's stories; to The Macmillan Company, publishers of Mr. Matthew Arnold's letters and poems; to D. Appleton and Company, publishers of Mr. Huxley's life and letters ; to the Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers (...)"