The Compilers beg to tender grateful appreciation to
Edwin Markham, and McClure, Phillips & Co., for the use
of selections from "Lincoln and Other Poems;" to Dodd,
Mead & Co., for selections from Hamilton Wright Mabie's
"Before My Library Fire," "In the Forest of Arden," and
other publications; to William H. Hearst, the San Francisco
Examiner, and many others, for the use of poems and selec-
tions of which they own the copyright.

Copyrighted, 1903
By

JESSIE K. FREEMAN, EVELYN STEVENS WILSON

and

SARAH S. B. YULE

Flowers mark the progress of the seasons; thoughts the progress of the soul. M. A. E. Benton.

To choose the best is the art of existence.