The author desires to acknowledge her special obligations to Messrs. Harper and Brothers for permission to use two selections of which they control the copyright, and to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. for permission to use selections from the works of James Russell Lowell, H. W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edmund C. Stedman, John G. Saxe, Mrs. Frances L. Mace, Miss M. L. Backus, and W. W. Young. She also wishes to thank Miss Mary E. Burt, author of "Literary Landmarks for Young People," for the many valuable hints on the comparative method of teaching literature, contained in her inestimable little guide-book. STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, ALBANY, N.Y., March, 1895. M. S. M. |