The author begs to acknowledge his indebtedness to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to include in this collection the contents of the volumes entitled "The Children of the Night," and "The Town Dovn the River," to Mr. Thomas Seltzer for permission to include the poem entitled "Lance lot," and to the editors of Scribner's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, The North American Review, The Nation, The Dial, The New Republic, The Bookman, The Outlook, Collier's, Poetry. The Literary Review, and other periodicals, for permission to reprint several poems.