PREFACE THE selections for the Fifth Book have been chosen with reference both to their elocutionary variety and to their authorship. Although some of them are not generally so well known as others, nevertheless each has a particular value and character of its own, and ought to be familiar to every student. Nearly all of the authors represented have been leaders of thought in their time, and their works include no inconsiderable portion of the world's best literature. In the preparation of this series of readers, valuable counsel and assistance have been given me by friendly educators and those in authority. I am especially indebted to the Rt. Rev. John Lancaster Spalding of Peoria, for advice and encouragement in the planning and inception of the work; also to the Rt. Rev. James McGolrick of Duluth, Minnesota, to the Rt. Rev. A. F. Schinner of Superior, Wisconsin, and to other prelates and clergy who have graciously assisted me in various ways. Many thanks, too, for kindly suggestions and criticisms, are hereby proffered to numerous friends among those patient and inspiring educators the Sisters. MARY E. DOYLE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE selections in the Fifth Reader from Longfellow, Whittier, Burroughs, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Aldrich, Agnes Repplier, Louise Imogen Guiney, and Lucy Larcom are used by permission of, and special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the publishers of the works of these authors. The selections from Helen Hunt Jackson and Henryk Sienkiewicz are used by special arrangement with Little, Brown, & Company. The "Ballad of the Trees and their Master," by Sidney Lanier, is inserted by arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers of the works of Sidney Lanier. Acknowledgments are also made to P. J. Kennedy & Company for the poems by Father Ryan; to Condé Benoist Pallen for permission to use the three poems by himself; to the Rt. Rev. John Lancaster Spalding for the selections from his writings; to Maurice F. Egan, and also to his publishers, Benziger Brothers, for his poem entitled "The String of the Rosary"; "Success"; to to Katherine E. Conway for her lines on Mary F. Nixon-Roulet for the selections of which she is the author; to Edith Ogden Harrison for the selection entitled "The Lily"; to the publishers of Sursum Corda for the article by Henry Whitely; to the publishers of The Rosary Magazine for the sonnet by Ida Rhodus; to the editor of The Ave Maria for the poems selected from that magazine; to Charles J. O'Malley, editor of The New World, for his poem on page 402; to Morang & Company, Toronto, for the extract from Louis Fréchette's "Christmas in Canada"; to Rand, McNally & Company for Charles Warren Stoddard's sketch entitled "Prinkipo"; and to Librairie Beauchemin Limitée, Montreal, for the selection from the works of Octave Crémazie. 4 |