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 Down the River," to Mr. Thomas
Seltzer for permission to include the poem entitled "Lancelot,"
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.
