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Excerpt from The Three Readers: An Omnibus of Novels, Stories, Essays and Poems Selected With Comments by the Editorial Committee of the Readers Club Acknowledgment for permission to reprint selections in this volume is gratefully given to the following: george ade, for The Fable of the Foozle if the Successful Ap proach. John bainbridge and the new yorker, for H, u Shih's Musketeer by John Bain bridge; copyright, 1942, by The New Yorker. Brandt 8e brandt, for The Pelican's Shadow by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; copyright, 1940, by The New Yorker. John collier and the new yorker, for Back for Christmas by John Collier; copyright, 1939, by The New Yorker. Doubleday, doran and company, for The Hill by Eleanor Green; copyright, 1936, by Doubleday, Doran and Company. Esquire, inc., for The Death of Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis; copyright, 1941, by Esquire, Inc., 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago (coronet, July farrar 8: rinehart, inc., publishers, for Country People by Ruth Suckow; copyright, 1924, by Ruth Suckow. Harper 8e brothers, for the excerpt from Three Worlds by Carl Van Doren; copyright, 1936, by Carl Van Doren. Henry holt and company, for Daybreak, reprinted from Thirteen by Corwin; copyright, 1942, by Norman Corwin. Henry holt and company, for A Winter Diary, reprinted from Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren; copyright, 1939, by Mark Van Doren. B. R. John stone and the historical society OF pennsylvania, for material from the Indian Trea ties Printed by benjamin Franklin. Alfred A. Knopf, inc for The Celestial Omnibus, re printed from The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories by E. M. Forster, by permission of and special arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. The macmillan company, for Zuleika in Cambridge by S. C. Roberts. Major st. Clair mckelway and the new yorker for Benzoin for the Turbinates by St. Clair mckelway; copyright, 1941, by The New Yorker. W. W. Norton 8: company, inc for Sea Raider, reprinted from My Name Is Frank by Frank Laskier, published by W. W. Norton 8c Company, Inc., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. Oxford university press, for The Struggle for North America, reprinted from A Study of History, Vol. II, by Arnold J. Toynbee. Random house for Septem ber I, 1939, reprinted from Another Time: Poems by W. H. Auden; copyright, 1940, by 'w. H. Auden. Charles scribner's sons, for George Santayana's Preface to his Poems; copyright, 1901, 1923, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Lionel trilling and the partisan review, for Of this Time, of that Place by Lionel Trilling; originally published in the Partisan Review, january-february, 1943. The viking press, inc., for Bats, re printed from Animal Treasure by Ivan T. Sanderson; copyright, 1937, by Ivan T. Sanderson. The viking press, inc., for the excerpt from Sea of Cortez by John Stein beck and E. F. Ricketts; copyright, 1941, by John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
