53. The three stories from Hans Christian Andersen have for so long formed part of my repertoire that I have been requested to include them. I am offering a free translation of my own from the Danish version. 54. Alas! dear Augustin, All is lost, lost! NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT My thanks are due to: Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, for permission to use an extract from "The Madness of Philip," and to her publishers. To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin, for permission to use extract from "Thou Shalt Not Preach," by Mr. John Burroughs. To Messrs. Macmillan and Co., for permission to use, "Milking Time," of Miss Rossetti. To Mrs. William Sharp, for permission to use passage from "The Divine Adventure," by Fiona MacLeod. To Miss Ethel CLifford, for permission to use the poem of "The Child." To Mr. James Whitcomb Riley and the Bobbs Merrill Co., for permission to use "The Treasure of the Wise Man." To Professor Ker, for permission to quote from "Sturla the Historian." To Mr. John Russell, for permission to print in full, "A Saga." To Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co., for permission to use "The Two Frogs," from the Violate Fairy Book, and "To Your Good Health," from the Crimson Fairy Book. To Mr. Heinemann and Lady Glenconner, for permission to reprint "The Water Nixie," by Pamela Tennant, from "The Children and the Pictures." To Mr. Maurice Baring and the Editor of _The Morning Post_, for permission to reprint "The Blue Rose" from _The Morning Post_. To Dr. Walter Rouse and Mr. J. M. Dent, for permission to reprint from "The Talking Thrush" the story of "The Wise Old Shepherd." To Rev. R. L. Gales, for permission to use the article on "Nursery Rhymes" from the _Nation_. To Mr. Edmund Gosse, for permission to use extracts from "Father and Son." To Messrs. Chatto & Windus, for permission to use "Essay on Child's Play" (from _Virginibus Puerisque_) and other papers. To Mr. George Allen & Co., for permission to use "Ballad for a Boy," by W. Cory, from "Ionica." To Professor Bradley, for permission to quote from his essay on "Poetry and Life." To Mr. P. A. Barnett, for permission to quote from "The Commonsense of Education." To Mr. James Stephens, for permission to reprint "The Man and the Boy." To Mr. Harold Barnes, for permission to use version of the "The Proud Cock." To Mrs. Arnold Glover, for permission to print two of her stories. To Miss Emilie Poulson, for permission to use her translation of Bjornsen's Poem. To George Routledge & Son, for permission to use stories from "Eastern Stories and Fables." To Mrs. W. K. Clifford, for permission to quote from "Very Short Stories." To Mr. W. Jenkyn Thomas and Mr. Fisher Unwin, for permission to use "Arthur in the Cave" from the Welsh Fairy Book. End of Project Gutenberg's The Art of the Story-Teller, by Marie L. Shedlock