Who publish Ambrose Bierce’s stories in book form, and by whom permission is given for the reprinting of “The Man and the Snake,” “The Damned Thing,” “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” and “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch.”

To Messrs. Methuen & Co., Ltd., 36 Essex Street, London, W.C.

For their courtesy in allowing us to include “The Tree of Knowledge,” from The Soft Side, by the late Henry James, the author himself having approved of a selection from his work two years before his death.