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Excerpt from Stories of Achievement, Vol. 6
IN the preparation of this volume the pub lishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copy right material. In particular, acknowledg ments are due to the Managers of the Old South Work for permission to reprint from Old South Lea?et 147 the sketch of Peter Cooper; to Mr. Andrew Carnegie for permission to use portions of his book The Gospel of Wealth; to Mr. John D. Rockefeller for permission to reprint from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events to Major John Bigelow for permission to reprint from his father's Retrospections of an Active Life; to Signor G. Mantellini for permission to use portions of his translation of The. Memoirs of Madame Ristori; to Doubleday, Page 8: Co. For permission to use portions of Life on the Stage, by Clara Morris; and to Charles Scribner' s Sons for permission to reprint from Richard Mans.
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