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Rinehart & Company, N.Y.: The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly. Copyright 1929 by Marc Connelly.
The John Day Company, N.Y.: My Country and My People by Lin Yutang. Copyright 1935 by The John Day Company.
Little, Brown & Company, Boston: Father and Glorious Descendant by Pardee Lowe. Copyright 1937, 1943 by Pardee Lowe.
David Lloyd, N. Y.: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Copyright 1931 by Pearl S. Buck. The John Day Company.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, N.Y.: The Travels of Marco Polo, edited by Manuel Komroff. Copyright 1926, 1930 by Horace Liveright, Inc.
Doubleday and Company, N.Y., and Jonathan Cape, London, on behalf of Lawrence executors: Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence. Copyright 1926 by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.
The George Macy Companies, N.Y.: Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, translated by Jacques LeClercq. Copyright 1936 by The Limited Editions Club.
Henry Holt and Company, N.Y.: A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman; the Society of Authors, London, representing the trustees of the author’s estate, and Jonathan Cape, London: Collected Poems of A. E. Housman.
Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y.: The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset. Copyright 1925 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Harper & Brothers, N.Y.: Description of Mr. Hastings by Anthony Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, quoted in Texts and Pretexts by Aldous Huxley. Copyright 1933 by Aldous Huxley.
Chatto & Windus, London: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Constance Garnett. Copyright 1923 by Mrs. Edward Garnett. Alfred A. Knopf.
Oxford University Press and representatives of the late Aylmer Maude, London: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.
Maxim Lieber, N.Y.: Against the Grain by J. K. Huysmans, translated by John Howard. Copyright 1922 by Lieber & Lewis.
André Simon and The Wine and Food Society, London: “Esau to Escoffier” from The Wine and Food Quarterly, Winter 1940 issue.
Mrs. W. A. Bradley, Paris: César Ritz: Host to the World by Madame Marie Ritz. Copyright 1938 by J. B. Lippincott Company.
Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y.: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Copyright 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Macmillan Publishing Company: Reprinted by permission from Notes on a Cellar-Book by George Saintsbury. Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Company.
Doubleday and Company, N.Y.: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. Copyright 1915 by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1943 by W. Somerset Maugham.
André Simon and The Wine and Food Society, London: “Memorable Meals, No. 1” from The Wine and Food Quarterly, Spring 1942 issue.
The Society of Authors as the literary representatives of the estate of G. B. Stern: Bouquet by G. B. Stern. Copyright 1927 by G. B. Stern. Alfred A. Knopf.
Harcourt, Brace and Company, N.Y.: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Copyright 1927 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.
The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and The Society of Authors as their representative: The Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare. Copyright 1922 by Walter de la Mare. Alfred A. Knopf.
Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y.: Paul Bunyan by James Stevens. Copyright 1924 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Reynal & Hitchcock, N.Y.: Saints and Strangers by George F. Willison. Copyright 1945 by George F. Willison.
Little, Brown & Company and Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston: The Country Kitchen by Della T. Lutes. Copyright 1935, 1936 by Della T. Lutes.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, N.Y.: Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. Copyright 1929 by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Little, Brown & Company, Boston: “The Great Pancake Record” from The Prodigious Hickey by Owen Johnson. Copyright 1910 by Little, Brown & Company.
Viking Penguin, Inc.: Reprinted by permission from Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. Copyright 1947 by John Steinbeck, renewed © 1975 by Elaine Steinbeck, John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck.
The Viking Press, N.Y.: “No Trouble at All” from Hotel Bemelmans by Ludwig Bemelmans. Copyright 1937, 1946 by Ludwig Bemelmans.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, N.Y.: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright 1940 by Ernest Hemingway.