The editors very gratefully acknowledge the kindness of publishers and individuals in giving per- mission to reprint material in this book:
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY: for selections from Autobiography and other material from Benjamin Franklin: Representative Selections edited by Frank Luther Mott and Chester E. Jorgenson.
D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY: for the poems and a prose selection by William Cullen Bryant; for a chapter from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; for "Charivari" from Yellow Gentians and Blue by Zone Gale; for a selection from Uncle Rebus: His Songs and Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris; for selections from General Lee by Fitzhugh Lee; for a selection from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew D. White.
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY: for "The Old Swimmin' Hole" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin" from Neighborly Poems, copyright 1891, 1919, and for "Little Orphant Annie" from Rhymes of Child- hood, copyright 1890, 1918, by James Whitcomb Riley.
ALBERT &1 CHARLES BONI: for "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce.
WILLIAM E. BORAH: for a selection from a speech on "Americanism" delivered in the Senate, February 21, 1919.
MARY ROSE BRADFORD: for selections from God Shakes Creation, copyright 1935, by David L. Cohn.
BRANDT & BRANDT, literary agents: for "Renascence" and "God's World" from Renascence and Other Poems, published by Harper & Brothers, copyright 1917, by St. Edna Vincent Millay; for "Lament" and "You As Well Must Die" from Second, April, published by Harper & Brothers, copyright 1921, by St. Edna Vincent Millay; for a selection from John Brown's Body, published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., copyright 1927, by Stephen Vincent Benat; for "Litany for Dictatorships" from Burning City, pub- lished by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., copyright 1933, 1935, 1936, by Stephen Vincent Benat; for a selection from The Big Money, published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., copyright 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, by John Dos Passos.
CARNEGIE CORPORATION: for selections from The Empire of Business ( 1902) by Andrew Carnegie.
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY: for selections from Prayers for the Social Awakening by Walter Rauschenbusch .
F. S. CROFTS & COMPANY: for a selection from Everyman His Own Historian by Carl Becker.
WILBUR L. CROSS: for a part of his address on "The Character of George Washington," delivered at Morristown, New Jersey.
DESERET BOOK COMPANY: for selections from Discourses of Brigham Young ( 1925).
THE -JOHN DAY COMPANY and the author: for selections from People at ITIork ( 1934) by Frances Perkins.
DODD, MEAD ) COMPANY: for three poems by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; for four poems by Richard Hovey.
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY: for a selection from The Constitution of the United States by James M. Beck , copyright 1924; for selections from My Boyhood by John Burroughs, copyright 1922; for a selection from My Life and Work by Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther, copyright 1922; for selections from Progress and Poverty by Henry George, copyright 1879, 1907, 1935; for "An Unfinished Story" from The Four Million by O. Henry, copyright 1905- 1933; selections from the authorized editions of Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman.
E. P. DUTTON ⊐COMPANY: for "The Critical Movement in America" top from Sketches in Criticism by Van Wyck Brooks.
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Publication Information: Book Title: The American Mind: Selections from the Literature of the United States. Volume: 2. Contributors: Harry R. Warfel - editor, Ralph H. Gabriel - editor, Stanley T. Williams - editor. Publisher: American Book. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1937. Page Number: vii.
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