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Excerpt from Stories of Achievement, Vol. 2
IN the preparation of this volume the pub lishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyright material. For this they Wish to express their cordial gratitude. In particular, acknowledg ments are due to Messrs. E. P. Dutton 81. Co. For the use of an extract from Macfadyen's Alfred the West Saxon, King of the English; to Messrs. Dodd, Mead 8: Co. For the use of an extract from James Schouler's Life of Thomas Jefferson; to the Houghton Mifilin Com pany for permission to use passages from Henry Cabot Lodge's Alexander Hamilton, and Prince Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolution ist; to the Macmillan Company for the use of extracts from Ida M. Tarbell's Life of Abra ham Lincoln, and from James Morgan's Theo dore Roosevelt, copyright 1907 by the Mac millan Company; to Hamlin Garland, Esq., for permission to quote from his Ulysses S. Grant His Life and Character; to the A. S. Barnes Company for permission to reprint an extract.
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