[Transcriber's Note:
The following section is reproduced unchanged from the original text
(published 1916).]
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Benjamin L. D'Ooge,
of the Michigan State Normal School, for his generous assistance and
hearty encouragement in the preparation of this work.
Sincere thanks are due to the various authors and publishers of
copyrighted books from which selections are taken for their courteous
permission to copy.
Specific acknowledgment is due George Bell and Sons, London, for
Martial's _Epigrams_; Smith, Elder, and Company, London, for The Doom
of the Slothful; Houghton, Mifflin Co., for After Construing, A Roman
Mirror, Enceladus, and the poems of John G. Saxe; The Chautauqua Press,
for Capri and the Translations of Horace's _Odes_; Charles Scribner's
Sons, for the Assembly of the Gods, Cerberus, the Harpy, A Plea for the
Classics, and _Malum Opus_; The American Book Company, for Cupid and the
Bee; Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., for A Christmas Hymn; _New England
Magazine_, for the Fall of Rome; Little, Brown and Company, for the
translation of _Dies Irae_; The Outlook Company, for the Prayer of
Socrates; Allyn and Bacon, for the music for _Flevit Lepus Parvulus_.
I must beg forgiveness of any one whose rights I have overlooked and of
a few whom, after repeated efforts, I have been unable to trace.
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