The poems bought were accepted on their merits and on their merits alone, and many a poet of greater years and of recognized standing would not despise being known as the author of _The Reading Boy_, _The Three Cornered Lot_ and _The Commonplace_. Nathalia Crane is a little girl who plays with dolls and toys and Roger Jones, whom she has glorified in some of her poems, when she is not busy at a typewriter giving expression to dreams and visions. She is also an author of delightful verse who obtained wide recognition of her work not because it was written by a child but because it was in itself worth while reading. For this alone, if for nothing else, she deserves all the success that is hers, all the laurels with which her friends and readers are glad to crown her and none more than the writer of this “Afterword” who came to know Nathalia Crane through her poetry which did not disclose her years. EDMUND LEAMY. _New York, May, 1924._ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Janitor's Boy, by Nathalia Crane