Acknowledgment is due the following publishers and authors, for their
courteous permission to use material on which they hold copyright:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for permission to use “Hiawatha’s Childhood,”
“The Heights by Great Men Reached,” by Henry W. Longfellow; “Barefoot
Boy,” by John G. Whittier; “Chippy Chirio,” by John Burroughs; “What the
Winds Bring,” by Edmund Clarence Stedman; “Fable,” “Duty,” by Emerson;
“The Brown Thrush,” by Lucy Larcom; “April,” by Alice Cary.
The Century Co., for permission to use “The Little Elf,” by John Kendrick
Bangs.
Small, Maynard & Co., for permission to use “The Tax Gatherer,” by John
B. Tabb.
Harper & Brothers, for permission to use “A Child’s Laughter,” from The
Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Little, Brown & Co., for permission to use “The Swallow,” “There’s
Nothing Like the Rose,” by Christina G. Rossetti; “Boys and Girls,” by
Louisa M. Alcott.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., for permission to use “Follow Me,” by Eliza
Lee Follen.
New England Publishing Co., for permission to use “Our Mother,” from The
American Primary Teacher.
The Reilly & Britton Co., for permission to use “The Christmas Stocking,”
by L. Frank Baum (copy. 1905).
Sarah J. Day, for permission to use “Buttercups,” from “Mayflowers to
Mistletoe” (G. P. Putnam’s Sons).
Kate Upson Clark, for permission to use “Charlie’s Story,” “Marjorie’s
Bath,” “Good Listening.”
Good Housekeeping Magazine, for permission to use “A Dutch Lullaby,” “A
Dutch Winter,” by Ella Broes van Heekeren.
Newson & Co., for permission to reprint “A Story of Washington.”
Charles Scribner’s Sons, for permission to use “Extremes,” by James
Whitcomb Riley, from “The Book of Joyous Children”; “My Ship and I,”
“The Little Land,” from “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” by Robert Louis
Stevenson, and “The Duel,” by Eugene Field.
I have just to shut my eyes
To go sailing through the skies—
To go sailing far away
To the pleasant Land of Play.
—_Robert Louis Stevenson._
Knowing how much good books are enjoyed by those who travel through what
Stevenson calls “The Land of Play,” it has been a pleasure to select
from the verse and prose of our best writers, old and new, the contents
of this pictured volume for “The Little People,” and perchance for some
older traveller who may wish to be,—
“A sailor on the rain-pool sea,
A climber in the clover tree;
And just come back a sleepy-head,
Late at night to go to bed.”
—_S. T. L._