The editor here records his deepest thanks for loyal coöperation in
a difficult task to the following individuals:

Conrad Aiken, Richard Aldington, Hervey Allen, Brent Dow Allinson
, W. H. Anderson, Joseph Auslander, Katherine Lee Bates, N. R. A. Becker
, William Rose Benét, Marshall Best, D. G. Bickers, Walter J. Black
, Florence Brewer Boeckel, Carl John Bostelmann, Laura Helena Brower
, William E. Brooks, Edna Burns, Amelia Josephine Burr, D. Maitland Bushby
, Witter Bynner, Katharine M. Carruth for "When the
Cannon Booms" from volume Each in His Own Tongue and Other
Poems by William Herbert Carruth, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons,
Will Chamberlain, Ralph Chaplin, Ralph Cheyney, Charles Badger Clark Jr.
, Thomas Curtis Clark, Albert Edward Clements, Archie Austin Coates
, Estate of Florence Earle Coates, Isabel Fiske Conant, Albert Sprague Coolidge
, Helen Coale Crew, Ernest E. Davies, Lin Joseph Dean Davies
, F. A. Dewson, Charles Divine, Louise Driscoll, Max Eastman
, Gilbert Emery, Laura Bell Everett, John Farrar, Robert Robert Frost Freeman
, Theodosia Garrison, Ethelean T. Gaw, Louis Ginsberg,
Caroline Goodenough for four poems from her hymnal, Amy Blanche Greene
, Hermann Hagedorn, Hala Jean Hammond, Philip M. Harding,
Ernest Hartsock, Daniel Henderson, Robert Hillyer, M. A. De Wolf Howe
for "The Known Soldier" from The Known Soldier and Other
Reminders of the War Decade, Boston, McGrath-Sherrill Press, 1924,
Charles Rann Kennedy, William Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Raymond Kresensky
, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Louise Burton Laidlaw, Agnes Lee
, Derrick Norman Lehmer, Eunice Mitchell Lehmer, June Lucas,
Frederick Lynch, Edwin Markham for five poems from his Collected
Poems, to be published in 1930, Marguerite Mooers Marshall, Edgar Lee Masters
for a selection from "Silence" in Selected Poems, J. B. Mathews,
Mrs. C. B. McAllister, Thomas McCrae for John McCrae, Edgar Mclnnis
, Emma Vories Meyer, Scudder Middleton, Abbie Leland Miller
for Joaquin Miller, Benjamin Musser, Alfred Noyes, James Oppenheim,
Jessie B. Rittenhouse, E. Merrill Root, John Rothschild, Kathryn White Ryan
, Margaret Sackville, Carl Sandburg, Siegfried Sassoon, Clinton Scollard
, Joseph T. Shipley, Mary Siegrist, M. C. Sinclair, Shaemas O'Sheel
, Louise Morgan Sill, E. L. Peterson Jr., Lori Petri, O. A. Shaw
, Fanny Bixby Spencer, Lucia Trent, Nancy Byrd Turner, Ralph B. Urmy
, Charles A. Wagner, Evelyn M. Watson, William Watson,
Norman Maclean Watt, Willard Wattles, Mary L. Wheeler for Curtis Wheeler
, Robert Whitaker, Hinton White, Lucy Whitmell, Margaret Widdemer
, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Clement Wood, Barbara Young.

And finally, in the case of Mrs. Clinton Scollard ( Jessie B. Ritten-
house), the editor wishes to say what is not within his ability to acknowl-
edge adequately--how profoundly he is indebted to her for the arrange-
ment of the poems and for invaluable aid in his editorial task.

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