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INTRODUCTION
THE SELECTION OF STORIES FOR L ITTLE CHILDR ENBy Elizabeth McCracken .
HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD FROM THE CHILDREN’S HOURBy Eva March Tappan.
VOLUME I. FOL K STORIES AND FABLESEverybody ’s Favorites Stories from GermanySweden Japan India Ireland America
bles Stories Old and New.
Suggestions for Further ReadingOld Fairy Tales andWonder Stories Modern Fairy Tales andWonder Stories.
V OLUME II . MYTHS FROM MANY L ANDSGreece andRome Scandinavia Japan The Slavs India.
Suggestions for Further ReadingMyths of Spain Myths of the Celts Re ference Books of
Mythology .
V OLUME III. STORIES FROM THE CLASSICSHerodotus L ivy Ovid Greek Folk Lore The Trojan
“far Adventures of Ulysses Wanderings of E neas .
CONTENTS
Suggestions for Further ReadingStories from A ncient L iterature Stories of Ancient L ife.
VOLUME IV . STORIES OF L EGENDARY HEROESHeroes of the Brit ish Isles Scandinavian and Danish HeroesHeroes of France The German Hero The Spanish HeroThe Persian Hero.
Suggesgions for Further ReadingStories from Mediwval L iterature Stories of the Age of Chivalry (in prose) Stories of the Age of Chivalry (in verse) L ife
in the Middle A ges .
VOLUME V . STORIES FROM SEV EN OL D FAV ORITESThe Pilgrim ’
s Progress Robinson Crusoe Gulliver’
sTravels
DonQuixote The A rabianNights BaronMunchausen
Tales from Shakespeare .
VOLUME V I. OL D-FASHIONED STORIES AND POEMSThe Stories of Maria Edgeworth , Jane Taylor, Jacob Abbott ,and Others Poems and R hymes Stories in Verse.
VOLU ME V II. OUT-OF-DOOR BOOKSNature and An imal Stories Stories ofTravel and Adventure
Deeds of Daring Unclassified Selections.
Suggestions for Further ReadingNature and Animal Stories Travel and Adventure Sports
and Past imes.
iv TA B L E OF CONTENTS
VOLUME V III. A DV ENTURES AND A CHIEV EMENTSStories of American Exploration and Frontier L ife
American History Heroes of the Old World
Selections.
Suggestions for Further ReadingStories of Sea Rovers and Discoverers Histories andHistorical
Stories Biographies.
VOLUME IX. POEMS AND R HYMESPoems about Children Story-Telling Poems Nonsense
Verse Songs Christmas Poems Poems of Nature
Poems of our Country Poems to Think A bout .
Suggestions for Further ReadingRhymes and Jingles for L ittle Folks Original Poetrythologies Songs Set toMusic.
Wonder Stories
Sea Stories W'
ar
Favorite Stories
BOOKS FOR PAR ENTS
NOTEWORTHY CHARACTERS AND EV ENTSReferred to in the Children’
s Hour.
AUTHORS OF THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
INDEx
VOLUME X. MODERN STORIESStories of Childhood Stories of Adventure
Unclass ified Select ions.
Suggestions for Further Read ingStories for L ittle Folks Stories for Girls
Stories Stories of Mystery and Adventureand Standard Novels .
Have you measured and mapped out this short l ife and i ts pos
s ibi l i ties ? D o you know, if you read thi s you cannot read that
thatwhat you lose to-day you cannot ga in to
-morrow W'
i l l you go
and goss ip wi th your housema id or your stable-boy,when you may
talk wi th queens and k ings ? This eternal court i s open to
you with i ts societywide as theworld , multi tudinous as its days,
the chosen and the mig hty of every place and time. Into that you
may enter always in that you may take f el lowsh ip and rank
accord ing to your wish ; f rom that once entered i nto i t, you can
never be an outcast but by your own f ault. JOHN RUSKIN .
INTRODUCTION
HEN the elder Mr. Weller was presented toMr. Pickwick , he said , taking off his hat , Beg
your pardon , sir, I hope you’
ve no fault to findwith Sammy , sir?
” “None whatever ,”
said Mr. Pickwick .
“V V
ery glad to hear it , sir,”
replied the Old man ;“ I took a deal 0 ’
pains with his eddicat ion , sir ; let him
run in the streets when he was wery young and shift forhisself. It ’
s the only way to make a boy sharp , sir
R ather a dangerous process, I should imagine ,
”
Mr . Pickwick, with a sm ile .
The liberal prov ision of public schools, together withcompulsory educat ion , has prevented the Weller sys
tem from being adopted in this country , so far as the
schools are concerned ; but it is great ly to be feared thatin the kind of educat ion which depends upon the home
rather than the schools , Mr. Wel ler’s principle may be
detected more frequently than we like to suspect .
There is toomuch let t ing boys (to say nothing of g irls)shift for themselves in the matter of the books which
they read. It was to correct this tendency that The
Children ’
s Hour was made , the object being to providea collect ion Of stories that would interest the childrenand at the same t ime instruct and help them , a series of
stories , the effect of wh ich would be‘
to cult ivate a taste
for the best in literature and lead them to seek further
among the writ ings Of the great authors
THE JOY OF SELECTION
v iii INTR OD UCTION
If there is any advantage at all in the Weller sys
tem of educat ion it is in the sense of freedom which it
gives. Chi ldren do not like to be driven . When handeda book and told they must read it , they are apt to hatethe book , and the reading is likely to take the form of a
mere g lancing over the pages without absorbing any of
the ideas . R eading should not be taken too seriously .
It is , after all , with most people , a recreat ion , and peo
ple who can find their recreat ion in the reading of thebest books are fortunate . Emerson recognizes thiswhenhe adv ises us to read only the books that we enjoy ; andthe same principle holds good with children . The Children ’
sHour is a collection of storieswhich children enjoy,
and it covers such a large field, and has been so careful lyprepared that chi ldren may roam about in it at pleasure
and enjoy a sense Of perfect freedom without danger ofcom ing into contact with anything that would be harmful . It is for th is reason that it has been so cordial lyendorsed by thousands of those parents who are par
t icular about what their chi ldren read .
The best way to use The Children ’
s Hour, therefore ,
is to g ive it to the children and say ,
“These books are
yours. Use them as you like .
” If the rest of your booksare kept in mahogany cases with g lass doors , make TheChildren ’
s Hour an except ion . Do not put it away with
y our other books at al l , but let the young folks carry itoff to their own rooms . L et them own it , and enjoy the
delight of ownership . L et them have perfect freedomto read it when and where they wi l l .The Chi ldren ’
sHour needs no book of rules for its use .
It is its own best guide , a fact which parents generallvhave appreciated . It is not a complicated mach ine , one
part of it to be used one day and another the next . It
is planned in such a way that with few except ions any
story in the book can be readwith sat isfact ion by almostany child who is old enough to read for himself. More
over, the stories are sowell adapted to their purpose that
parentswho read them to very young children are oftensurprised to find that select ions which they suspected
were intended for older people , are real ly enjoyed quitetS much by the litt le ones. Here is a rare privilege forfather and mother . Parents can read these stories to or
with the children , and share equal ly in the enjoyment .
Horace E. Scudder once said , “There is no academy on
earth equal to amother’
s reading to her child andMissTappan has pointed out that such a poem as Addison
’
s
“The Spacious Firmame
‘
nt on High , and many a pas
sage from M ilton and Shakespeare . which are in thought
farbeyond the understanding of ordinary children , charm
their ears by the g lorious sweep of the rhythm . Even for
children who are too young to understand the reading of
a story , the volumes are all avai lable . They will interestthe mother so that she wil l find pleasure for herself inreading them . A t the same t ime she will be absorbing
INTR OD UCTION
the stories, fix ing in m ind their salient points, and un
consciously preparing herself to repeat them in her own
words to the child upon her knee . It is not a task undertaken only for the good of
the children. but a delight .
A favorite form of amus
ing young children a genera
tion agowas for the mother
to tel l them fairy tales ,“making them up out of her
head ”
as she went along .
One would want to knowwhat she had in her headbefore trust ing that systemvery far ! But the mother
can choose any good story
in The Children ’
s Hour and
re-tell it to very young ch ildren in such a way that thelitt le onewill have the benefit of the noblest thoughtsin literature .
It is a great m istake ,
therefore. for a mother toPREPARATION
take it for granted that on ly the first volume of The
Children ’
s Hour is intended for the youngest children .
These early pages contain the Folk Stories andFables , ”
which interest young children, and are intended to
st imulate the imaginat ion . A ll great educators recognizethe necessity of cult ivat ing the imaginat ive facult ies of
the child . There is no great
amount of moral instructionin the Story of the ThreeBears , but no one shouldth ink that the t ime spent in
reading it is a waste , for it is
but a beginning in the en]
t ivat ion of fancy , leading tothe greater and vastly more
important power known as
imaginat ion , the development of which is the keynote to success in almostevery cal ling in life. Things
cannot be bui lt in realityunt il they have been builtin the m ind , and that iswhatimag inat ion means. Once
seen in this light , the necessity for its cult ivat ion needsno argument .
In fact , every story in The Children’
s Hour has beenselected with a V iew to developing character in one way
or another . It may be intended to stimulate imagination ,
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to arouse ambit ion , to inculcate admirat ion formoral andphysical courage , or to give information regarding the
facts of history , biography , or science . Whatever the immediate purpose , the ult imate aim has always been todevelop character.
Not the least important element in such development
is the cult ivat ion Of a real appreciation of the best in literature . If a select ion from some good author has real lyinterested a child , he will naturally want more fromthe same author, or from other authors who write in
somewhat sim ilar vein . The intent ion of the editor of
The Children ’
sHour has been to make the selections ofsuch a character that the reading of them wi ll naturallytend to develop a taste for the literature to be found inthe writings of the world
’
s greatest authors . To one who
has used The Children ’
s Hour the pract ical questiontherefore arises sooner or later, “What are these booksthat const itute the best literature? What am I to readafter I have finished the select ions of The Children ’
s
Hour ?”
It is to satisfy these demands that the publishers are
now offering to the readers of The Chi ldren ’
s Hour a
new volume , entit led “A Guide to Good R eading .
”
It
is intended to serve every member of the fam ily , fromthe parents down to the smal lest child . It aims to ex
tend and make permanent the taste for good literatureby point ing out in a pract ical way what books to read .
It tells how to use The Ch ildren ’
s Hour so as to get the
ful lest possible benefit , and how to cont inue readingalong the lines that wil l prove the most interest ing , and
st il l keep within the l im its of the choicest literature .
AR R ANGEMENT
The Guide to Good R eading is div ided into threeparts, the first of wh ich consists of two pract ical talksto parents. One of these , ent it led , “
The Selection of
Stories for L it t le Children , is written by the editor ofHome Progress , Elizabeth McCracken ; and the other ,
by the editor of The Children ’
s Hour, Eva MarchTappan, is called “How to Get the Most Good fromThe Children ’
s Hour.
”
The second part of the Guide to Good R eadingconsists of a careful ly selected list Of books in nearlyevery department of literature , suggested by the select ions in The Children ’
s Hour . The aim has been to
recommend books that are wel l adapted to the tastes ofyoung people , books ful l Of interest in themselves, andalways helpful in the development of character. This
sect ion is arranged to correspond with the V olumes of
The Children ’
s Hour . The pages are div ided into threecolumns , the first g iv ing the selections of The Ch ildren ’
s
Hour , the second the sources from which they were ob
tained and the third the best books on the same or other
closely related subjects . If a boy , for instance , has
INTR OD UCTION xi
enjoyed reading The A rchery Contest , he will learnthat it is taken from Sir Walter Scott ’s Ivanhoe ,
”
to which he wil l then natural ly turn . He wil l learn inaddit ion that other books by Scott which would appeal
to him are Quent in Durward ,” The Talisman ,
”
etc.
If a g irl has found pleasure in the story of The
Tempest ,”
she wil l find further enjoyment in the other
Tales from Shakespeare ,
”
by Charles andMary L amb,
and final ly wil l come to realize that the only genuine sat
isfact ion comes from reading the stories in the words
of the great poet himself. Thus the Guide to GoodReading
”
has a constant tendency to draw the interest
of young people towards the'
great masters of literature .
A ll the books recommended can be readily obtainedat a good public library or bookstore. Brief descript ionsare given in most cases as a further guide in choosing .
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
A t the end of the list of related books for each
volume of The Children ’
s Hour , some additional recommendat ions are g iven for extended reading along the
lines suggested . By this means attent ion is directed tosome of the world ’
s greatest books at the very t ime
when the suggest ion is likely to create the greatest in
terest . Tennyson’
s“ Idy l ls Of the King and Scott
’
s
Marm ion are thus natural ly suggested by the Stories
of L egendaryHeroes in volume three , whi le the Mod
ern Stories Of volume ten lead to a long line of standardworks of fiction .
NOTEWORTHY CHARACTERS AND EVENTS
The third part of A Guide to Good R eading will
prove of direct assistance in the reading of The Chi]
SPORTS AND PASTIMES
In connect ion with the Out-of-door Books (volume
seven) a list is given of books devoted to sports , games
and other amusements, boat building , camping , basketweav ing and all the various kinds of handicraft of interest to boys and girls .
SONGS SET TO MUSIC
Fol lowing the Poems and R hymes (volume nine)is a list of song -books especially adapted for young chi ldren . The songs by which a ch ild is introduced to theworld ofmusic deserve careful considerat ion , and parents
who fol low the suggest ions here g iven may be sure thatthe first steps will be taken in the right direct ion .
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
A t the end of this section of the Guide there is g iven
a list of books on the care and training of ch ildren . A ll
the volumes here recommended are standard works andfull of helpful , pract ical suggest ions .
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dren ’
sHour. Brief biographical sketches of the hi storicalcharacters referred to in The Ch ildren ’
s Hour, and shortaccounts of all the important historical incidents are
g iven in a form convenient for reference . Thiswill servetomake many of the stories permanently valuable .
AUTHORS OF THE CHIL DREN’
S HOUR
Those who have learned to appreciate and enjoy thedelightful select ions of The Chi ldren ’
s Hour will wishto knowmore of the authors towhom they are indebted .
It has therefore been thought desirable to include in
the Guide toGood R eading a series of short biographical sketches of the two hundred and forty-five authorsfrom whose writings the selections have been taken .
The Children ’
s Hour is thus made to serve as an exce llent and agreeable study of thewhole field Of theworld ’sbest literature.
Wherever possible, both in the sketches of the his
toric characters and of the authors, standard worksof biography and history are referred to, so that the
reader may easily pursue the study of any subject inwhich he becomes interested .
THE SELECTION OF STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
BY EL IZABETH MCCRACKEN
BOUT a year ago a friend
A of mine who'
is the motherof two litt le children , aboy
of four and a girl of eight , wrote tome , say ing ,
“ Please recommend tome a series of stories for my children stories of all kinds , frommyths and fables, to stories of to
day .
”
I replied , suggest ing that She getThe Ch ildren ’
s Hour . In that setOf ten books , ” I said , I think youwi ll find exact ly what you desire .
”
My friend did get The Children’
s
Hour. Very soon afterward , she
wrote again , say ing , The Ch i]
dren ’
s Hour is a delight to me but
I am not able to use it for my ch ildren . It is such an embarrassment
of riches . I never knowwhich sto
ries to select , nor when to selectthem . I have read from the bookof fables , and from the book of
poems , to my children ; but the AT MOTHER'
S KNEE
other eight volumes are closedbooks to them . The poems theylike , becauseof the rhythm ; and the
fables they enjoy , because they are
about animals ; all children likerhythm , and all children are inter
ested in animals . The stories in the
other books all deal with subjectsthat seem to me beyond the com
p rehension of children of the ages
of m ine . St ill , I am g lad that Ibought The Ch ildren
’
sHour. I canuse two volumes of it now. A s mychildren grow older, I shall gradually make use of the other eightvolumes .
”
A few months later, I went tospend the day with this friend . In
the course of the afternoon wewentdown into the v illage to do some
shopping , taking the two childrenwith us. We went into a
‘
dry goodsshop , to buy hair ribbons for thelitt le girl . In the shop , the child
2 THE SEL ECT ION OF STOR IES FOR L ITT L E CHI L D R EN
happened to see a Japanese parasol . I ’d like to havethat , mother,
”
she exclaimed ; “it is so pretty and I
have n’
t any umbrella .
”
The fam ily live in a seaside town , and the first dampday would quite demolish a Japanese parasol . The
mother explained this to the litt le g irl . And even if
you kept it out of the dampness , dear , she said , “ it isso windy here that on a bright day the wind would tearit before you had had it very long .
”
“But I like it , ” the child said . I had rather have it
than new hair ribbons ! ”“You rem ind me of R osamond and the Purple
Jar I remarked .
“Who is she?”
the litt le girl asked . Her mother toldher ; and the child said , “Well a Japanese parasolis n
’
t a purple jar ; but perhaps I had better get myribbons to-day , anyway !
”
When we reached home again , the child said , I’
d liketo hear all the story of R osamond and her purple jar.
”
Her mother found the volume Of The Children ’
s Hour
in which that story appears ; and read it to both thechildren . They listened with the greatest interest .
“Why did n’
t Rosamond ’s mother tell her that thepurp le jar was n
’
t purple at all ?”
the litt le g irl asked .
She was an old-fashioned mother, ” my friend replied .
Old-fashioned mothers don ’
t explain as many things to
their children as new-fashioned mothers do ! ”
R ead some more about old-fashioned mothers ! ” thelitt le boy begged .
R ead something about new-fashioned people !”
the
litt le g irl exclaimed .
Thus did my friend find that her chi ldren were oldenough for two more volumes of The Children ’
s Hour.
It is in some such way as this that other mothers willfind out the best and the most natural ways Of usingThe Children ’
s Hour for their little children , who are
sti ll too young to use it for themselves . Children differ ;and the incidents of fam ily l ife vary ; but the great di
versity of the stories in The Ch ildren’
s Hour is such thateach story in each one of the ten volumes will relate tosome moment in the l ife of a child Of eight , or even a
child of four . The mother must be on the watch always,in order to see the child ’s need , and to meet it .
There is no age limit to any story in The Children’
s
Hour . The t ime at which it can best be g iven to a
child depends upon that child , and upon his or her dailylife . A child of twelve m ight be regarded as ready forthe story of Ulysses ; it m ight chance that a child of
five would be found to be equally ready . I have amongmy youthful friends a litt le boy Of six . He has an aunt
who lives in Ithaca ,New York . R ecent ly , he went withh is mother to v isit his aunt . Was not thisch ild as readyas he ever would be to hear the story Of Ulysses and
that Ithaca of far-off Greece in wh ich UlysseS lived ?
4 THE SEL ECTION OF STOR IES FOR L ITT L E CHI L D R EN
fullness love of
poetry . N0 true poetry is too old for
any child . NOchild ,after its first year, is
too young to hearthe best poetry .
hi others and fa
thers may beg in by
reading to their
children the poetryt h ey l ov e best .
They will soon discoverwhich Of theirfavorite poems are
also the favorites oftheir children .
It is claim ing a
great deal to say that a child ’s whole future career
may depend upon the hearing of a story ! But , nuques
t ionably , it is true. A boy I know, whose parents wereobliged to live in Eng land during two Of h is early yearsfrom the t ime he was eight unt il he was ten said
to his father one day ,
“Am I an Eng lishman , or an
American , or have n’
t I any country at all?”
His father, a loyal American , start led at this quest ion ,
read to the boy ,
“A Man Without a Country .
”
NeverYou are an American , he told the boy .
forget that !”
The boy , nowa man , is just about to enter the UnitedStates A rmy . Much of his l ife has been passed in other
countries ; but he is an American .
“ I th ink I m ight have become an Englishman , or a
man with no part icular loyalty to any flag ,
”
he said recently , had it not been for the story of
‘
A Li an “Ethout a Country ,
’
which my father read to me when I wasa litt le boy in Eng land . I did n ’
t understand all of it ;but I understood enough to keep me. forever loyal to theland of my birth , no matter where I m ight happen to begrowing up .
”
Children beg in very early to think about what theymean to do when they are grown-up . In olden times ,
when a boy , upon being asked , “What are you going tobewhen you are grown-up ? replied , A policeman ,
”
or ,
A fireman ,
”
the hearers usuallv laughed ; and prompt lyforgot all about both the quest ion and the answer. If alitt le g irl , sim ilarly quest ioned , answered , “ I am going
to keep a candy store .
”
or“ I think I shall sell flowers ,”
the same thing happened . In these days of vocat ional
guidance , not only are these answers of the childrenmore seriously considered , but some effort is made so
to teach the litt le ones that they will really know whatthey mean by such answers.
Most Of us realize that the reason boys wish to be
THE SEL ECTION OF STOR IES FOR L ITT L E CHI L D R EN
policemen , or firemen , is because these callings appeal
and very right ly — to their imaginat ions . The policeman is the person towhom the litt le boy has seen persons go in moments of danger of many kinds ; he may
have seen the policeman do many brave th ings , fromstopping a runaway horse to rescuing a small child whohas stepped in front of an automobi le . A s for the fire
man ,
— even the very small boy knows that the fireman
risks h is life every t ime the fire whist le blows . The
spirit of adventure is strong in boys , even when they
are very young . It is the priv ilege Of the father and themother to guide this spirit ; to call the attent ion of the
boys not only to contemporary heroes of adventure , but
also to lead them , through books , to an int imate ac
quaintance with the heroes of adventure in history , fic
t ion , and myth . A ll boys cannot be soldiers , pol icemen ,
or firemen . But every boy may be a hero ; and every
boy may be brought to see that every day life is as muchof an adventure as any other that ever called for thequalit ies that make a hero.
A t the present t ime g irls have their careers as well asboys . They can be prepared for them best by learning ,
from experience and from books, of the careers of the
greatest women there have been . A g irl’
s whole futuremay be determ ined by hearing in t ime one such story .
A g irl I know has recent ly gone into a hospital tolearn to be a trained nurse. When I was a litt le girl ,
”
she said to me re
cent ly , I used to
think, like many
other litt le g irls ,that when I was
grown-up I shouldwant to run an ice
cream wagon , or
have a toy shop . Iwas sti ll not a very
big g irlwhen I realized that neither ofthose occupat ions
was exact ly suitedto me . Just when Iwas wondering and
wondering what Ishould do when Iwas qu ite grown
up , someone hap
pened to tell me the
story of FlorenceNight ingale . I made up my m ind at once that I wasgoing to be a trained nurse ; and very soon now I shallbe !
”
A ll the stories told to the children about whom I havebeen writ ing are to be found in The Children ’
s Hour.
THE SEL ECTION OF STOR IES FOR L ITT L E CHI L D R EN
Every mother and father on the shelves Of whose libraries these books have appeared can read them to theirchildren . These stories may be just what some childrenneed at this moment . Other stories in The Children ’
s
Hour may be just what other ch ildren need .
Not being personally acquainted with all the mothersand fathers , and all the children of the many familiesinto which
“A Guide to Good R eading
”
and The Children
’
s Hour have gone , and are going , it is not possiblefor me to tell each mother and each father just when to
use each story for each child . I can only urge that allthe fathers and mothers acquaint themselves fully withall the stories in the ten volumes ; and watch for theright moments in which to bring them to the notice
of their litt le sons and daughters, too young to readfor themselves. These few instances g iven of ways in
which fathers and mothers whom I know have usedsome of the stories , will , I trust , prove suggest ive to
all those many fathers and mothers whom I do not
know.
HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD FROM THE CHILDREN’
S HOUR
Br EVA MARCH
F you have bought The Chi ldren’
sHour for
your boys and g irls, supposing you lookit over to see what it is, how it is ar
ranged , and how to get the most goodfrom it .
In the first place , you will find thatthe stories are interest ing . If youbegin one , you will probably wishto read it through . When PresidentEliot and Edward Everett Halesaw the books , both exclaimed ,“ I want to read every volume
myself.”
There is not such a greatgulf after all between a story thatinterests a grown person and one
that interests a child . Both livein the fi tme world , on ly it is morefresh and new to the ch ild , and heis more intensely eager to knowwhat goes on in it , to learn about
people and places and events . If aclean story , well-told , arouses the interestOf the grown-ups , it is almost certain that
children , too, will find in it someth ing to enjoy . A cozy CORNER
Second , besides being Of interest , these stories are
of dist inct educational value , and for many reasons.
Some picture the manners and usages of the folk Ofother lands ; some open theway to a love of natureand an appreciat ion of her ways ; some bringabout a fam iliarity with the classics and the
tales Of old that will make clear the references to them constant ly appearing in both
poetry and prose . Why may a success
ful business man be said to have thegolden touch Why should a musical society be called an OrpheusClub? \Vhy do we speak of theapple of discord?
”
A familiaritywith the old stories , even suchsimple ones as Hans in L uck,Bluebeard , Cinderella , and JacktheG iantkil ler means a great dealnot only to the general reader,but to the advanced student offolklore .
“Mother Goose ”
can
hardly be counted among the
great poets ; but I have seen in
a university seminar a highly
8 HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD FR OM THE CHI L D R EN’
S HOUR
educated man bungle and blunder over the scanning
of a poem that any child who had sing-songed the
rhymes of Mother Goose would have done correct ly byinstinct .
Third , these stories are of moral value . They do not
close in the Old-fashioned manner with a litt le fencedoff moral ; but the moral is there , and the child is sureto find it . Tell your child a hundred t imes if you willthat he must not be inquisit ive ; but I fancy that thelitt le story of Pandora who opened the forbidden chestand let out the winged Troubles into the world willimpress it upon his m ind better than all the goodadv ice. When you come away from listening to a
sermon , do you not remember most clearly some illus
trat ive story? And do you not work back in your
m ind from the story to the fact that the speakerwished you to keep in your thought ? How can a
ch ild who is fami l iar with “A Dog of Flanders ”
or
“Geist ’s Grave ”
ever be unkind to an animal ? And
how can one who has read “ Jackanapes”
or The
King of the Golden R iver”
ever be selfishly regardless Of the good of others without a l itt le twinge Of
memory suggest ing that it would really be better not tothink of himself first ?
A fourth point that youwill not ice in turn ing over theleaves of these books is that there are no hard and fastdivisions. In the volume of poems, those on somewhat
similar subjects are brought together as a matter of
convenience ; but no group of stories is intended toteach honesty , for instance , while another is set apart
to g ive instruction in faithfulness or unselfishness or
any other virtue . Such an art ificial arrangement as
that would seem to me exact ly contrary to the wise
and reasonable methods of nature. The stories come
along just as persons and events and moral lessonsdo in real life . We get one thought from a novel ,one from a sermon , one from the chance remark of a
friend ; we adm ire the gent leness of one person , the
bravery Of a second , the generosity of a third . Thinkback over your own childhood , and you will see howmany of your heroes and heroines dwelt in the worldof books . Children have a vast respect for the printedpage .
Fifth , you wil l note that in general the first part of
each volume is somewhat simpler than the last part ; butthat , aside from this , no attempt has been made to groupthe stories according to their difficulty , or, what seems
to me even more unwise and impract icable , to dividethem into stories for eight -year-olds , ten-
year-Olds, and
so on . Ch ildren do not develop in the same fashion or
at the same rate . N0 two are al ike . There is no“average
child .
”
A boy of six may enjoy a story that another boyof eight would find rather Old for him . The stories thatplease a quiet , shy litt le home-lov ing girl are quite
HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD FR OM THE CHI L D R EN’
S HOUR
different from those that delight heradventurousbrother.
And as to the difficulty why , speaking broadly , ease
of reading means interest , and difficulty of readingmeans lack of interest . I have never heard a boy com
plain of the hard words in a book of adventures ; but Ihave more than once heardone wail over the hard wordsin a spelling lesson . It is in
terest , and not words of onesy l lable that makes a bookeasy . Few series, if any , of
children ’
s books ever had so
long cont inued a sale as those
of Jacob A bbott ; and thatauthor never set himself towork to select a special vo
cabulary for his litt le readers .
He wrote clearly , and was
careful to choose the wordthat would best bring out
h is meaning and the children were more than wil lingto do the rest .
How may The Children’
s
Hour be used to the best advantage
? Howmay a mother
get the most good from it for V ISIONS
her children? In the first place, remember that mostchildren have considerable common sense, if only theyare permitted to exercise it and that they will gladlychoose for themselves if they have the chance . Two
thousand years ago, the L at in poet Horace wrote thatthere was a great pleasure inbeing able to “
take from a
full pile and there is a real
joy to a ch ild in turning overthe leaves of a volume , reading a line here, a sentence
there , unt il he lights upon theone story which he knows inst inct ively is the one that hewants to read at that moment . That very sense of
freedom is a delight and an
incent ive to read . There isas much human nature in
children as in men and wo
men , and quite as much dislike Of being told what theymust do and must not . Of
course there is reading mat
ter that is dist inctly perni
cions . One species is the“colored supplement of the
HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD FR OM THE CHI L D R EN’
S HOUR
newspaper , with its false not ions of wit , its sil liness , itsg lee over foolish tricks , its making light of things thatought to be respected . A nother is the
“cheap dreadful ,
”
the volume Of wild and lurid adventures undertakenfor foolhardiness ; another is the book in wh ich the m isunderstood child is the chief figure ; and yet another isthe volume whose hero or heroine bears the errors of
its parents’
ways with most exasperat ing meekness and
patience , or occasional ly delivers small moral lectures ,to which the offending parents listen with tearful penitence . There is much trash from which ch ildren ought
to be kept ; but where it is safe for them to be free , (as
with the select ions ofThe Chi ldren ’
sHour)their freedomis all the more valuable and all the more necessary for
the cult ivation of an indiv idual taste .
A nother way in which The Children’
s Hour may be
made pract ical is by using it as a source for stories to
tell to the younger children . Don’
t lim it yourself to thesimpler tales of folklore . Great thoughts are always sim
ple and natural , and there is hardly a story in the whole
ten volumes that a mother could not read and then tel lin simple fashion to very young children . \Vhat , for in
stance , is more profound than the significance of Haw
thorne’
s“ Great Stone and what is simpler and
better adapted to the comprehension of a child than thistale Of the litt le boy who gazed upon the noble counte
nance formed by the rocks far up on the mountain and
longed to see the promised comerwhowould be as grand
and as pure as the expression of such a face would indicate ? One person after another is hailed as the long ex
pected hero ; Mr . Gathergold with his store of wealth ,
B lood and Thunder with the g lory of v ictorious batt lefields about h im , and Old Stony Phiz , the successfulpol it ician . But when these men are better known , the
good folk Of the valley realize that no one of them bears
a faithful l ikeness to the godl ike face in the everlast ingrocks . A nd do you remember how the people final lycame to see that it was no stranger with wealth or g loryor posit ion whose face was like that on the mountain ,
but one among them , the one who in utter self-forgetfu lness had watched the noble features most earnest ly ?There is nothing here too difficult to be told to a ch ild ;and noth ing so simple as to be scorned by the wisest
philosopher . Such a story wil l interest the mother andplease the chi ld ; it wi ll be of moral and educat ionalvalue . Moreover , when the child is Older and the t ime
has arrived for him to make a study of the best literature Of his country , hewill come to the writ ings ofHawthorne , not as to the works of a stranger , but rather as
to the thoughts of a friend of his ch ildhood. There is nobetter introduction to the study of Burns , for instance ,
than the memory of a mother’
s sing ing“Ye Banks and
braes of bonny Doon”
or“Flow gent ly , sweet A fton ,
among thy green braes .
”
12 HOW TO GET THE MOST GOOD FR OM THE CHI L D R EN’
S HOUR
The Barefootvacat ion days spent in the country
Boy”
points out quests without end
How the tortoise bears his shell ,
How the woodchuck digs his cell ,
How the robin feeds her young ,
And the ground-mole sinks his well .
Find the source of a l itt le brook and trace it by the
music of Tennyson’
s“ Brook . Test
“The Cataract of
L odore by some litt le waterfall . Test “Nothing”
by
the dainty grace of some silver birch tree growing beside a rock . L isten to some
“old clock on the stair
”
and see if it really does seem to say
Forever never
Never forever
Test The Vision Of Sir L aunfal by a summer day .
See if the crows really flap by twos and threes,”
if the
cat t le really drowse up to their knees in the pool . L istenand see if you
“ hear life murmur .
”
It may be that the
mother will find some new beauties and win some new
pleasure from the Old poems that she knows by heart ;but even if she finds nothing new, there is litt le thatwill draw her closer to the heart Of her child than th is
working and thinking and dream ing together in the
g low Of the thoughts Of those fortunate men and women
who have discovered the g leam of poetry in our every
day lives and have pointed it out to us .
But a path that leads nowhere is not a path , howeverpleasant it may appear, it is only a blind al ley . Some
of the best stories and poems in the world are broughttogether in The Children
’
s Hour ; but , fortunately forthe world , even ten generous volumes wil l not beg in tocontain its inherited riches of poem and story . In a
child ’s world , however, everything stands by itself,everyth ing is indiv idual . It is a surprise to him to find
that two people may hear the same name . It does notalways occur to him that h is favorite book may have a
relative far away in the realms of literature . It is the
funct ion of The Children ’
s Hour not on ly to prov idegood reading , but to point out the way to more goodreading .
To read and to think about what one has read is amost excellent groundwork for all educat ion . CharlesL amb says of
“ Bridget El ia” “
She was tumbledearly by accident or design into a spacious closet ofgood Old Eng lish reading
”
; and he leaves the sub
jcet with the emphat ic statement ,“Had I twenty
g irls , they should all be brought up exact ly in thisfashion .
”
VOLUME I. FOLK STORIES AND FABLES
The f airy tale belongs to the chi ld and ought always to be within his reach,not only because i t is his special
l i terary f orm and his nature craves i t,but because i t i s one of the most vi tal of the tex tbooks ofi
’
ered to him in the
school of life. In u ltimate importance i t outranks the ari thmeti c, the grammar , the geography, the manuals ofscience f or wi thout the aid of the imag ination none of these books is really comp rehens ible.
” —HAm L TONWR IGHT MAB IE.
THE STORIES
EVERYBODY’S FAVOR ITESL ittle Red R iding HoodThe Three BearsL ittle One Eye , L ittle Two EyesL ittle Three Eyes
Benny-PennyJack and the BeanstalkThe Golden BirdHop-o
’-my-Thumb
Puss in BootsTom ThumbCinderella ; or, the Glass SlipperHans in L uckThe Sleeping BeautyBlue BeaTheWhite CatBeauty and the Beast
Whitt ington and his Cat
The Three SilliesJask the Giant-Killer
THEIR SOUR CE
From THE CHIL DREN’
S BOOK , edited by Horace E. Scudder.
An extensive and popular collect ion of fairy tales ,
myths, ballads, famous stories, etc
Al l of these stories except TheThreeBears, which waswritten by Southey, are very old and some of them are
found in slight ly different forms in the folk lore of
nations as far apart as India and Iceland. For th is
reason they are thought to date back to the preh istorict imes when all the A ryan race dwelt together in CentralAsia. The best of the stories here given are from the col
lect ion made by Perrault, a French court ier of the 17thcentury.
From ENGL ISH FAIRY TA L ES , by JosephJacobs.A delightful collect ion . Mr. Jacobs has edited several
excellent volumes of fairy stories .
From GERMAN HOUSEHOL D TA L ES , by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm.
The stories gathered from the peasants of Germanyby these two learned students of folk lore are among thebest and most popular of all wonder tales.
OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
By Andrew Lang .
THE BLUE FA IRY BOOK.
Favorite fairy tales . Themost popularof themany volumesof fairy lore edited byMr. L ang .
By Mrs. V al entine.
OL D , OL D FA IRY TA L ES .
A good collection of the Old favorites.
By Mrs. Dinah M . Craik .
THE FAIRY BOOK.
Thirty-six popular tales.
By PenrhynW. Coussens.
A CHIL D’S BOOK OF STORIES .
A large and well chosen collect ion of the fairy tales thatchildren most enjoy.
By Joseph Jacobs.
MORE ENGL ISH FA IRY TA L ES .
A companion volume to English Fairy Tales and equallyenjoyable.
By Howard Pyle.
THEWONDER CLOCK .
Twenty-four folk tales retold in a novel and entertainingmanner.
FO L K STOR IES AND FA B L ES VOL . I
THE STORIES OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
The Duel between the Fox and the Wolf From THE DEL ECTAB L E HISTORY OF REYNARD By F. J. Harvey Darton.
A WONDER BOOK OF BEASTS .
A popular medie val story composed about the 12th Contains a simplified version of Reynard the Fox tocentury by an unknown author. gether with many other folk tales In which animals are the
STOR IES FROM THE SHORES OF THE NORTH
FromWONDER STOR IES TOL D To CHIL DREN, by By Hans Christian Andersen.
Hans Christian Andersen.
The Dammg-Needle “The most unique contribution made to children
’
3 L itt leTuk ,The IceMaiden, TheL ittleMatchGirl and otheThe Angel literature. Horace E. Scudder.
Boots and his Brothers From NORSE FAIRY TA L ES , by GeorgeWebb By P . C. Asbjbrnsen.
The Husband who was toMind the House Dasent. TA L ES FROM THE FJEL D.Buttercup A thoroughly enjoyable collection of the best of the Translated by G. W. Dasent . Popular folk storiesWhy the Sea i
éhSalt
be th
Norse stories.
Not a Pin to oose tween em
The L ad whoWent to the North WindBy EvaMarch Tappan
Boots who A te a Match with the Troll THE GOL DEN GOOSE AND OTHER FAIRY TA L ES .
Gudband on the Hillside Six entertaining stones translated from the Swedish .
Adventures of L ittle Peachl ing From Tm or Om) JAPAN, by A . B .Mitford. By T. P . Will iston.
The Accompl ished and L ucky Tea-K9“! Myths , fairy tales, and folk stories literally translated JA PANESE FA IR Y 9mm .
The Grateful Foxes from the Japanese with explanatory notes. Simplified versions of favorite Japanese tales.
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow From JA PANESE FA IRY TALm , by Yei Theo
One of the largest and best collect ions of the fairystories of Japan.
STORIES FROM INDIAThe Country where the Mice eat Iron Adapted by Eva March Tappan from THEThe Rogue and the Simpleton FA BL ES OF BIDPA I.
These fables are said to have beenwritten more thantwo thousand years ago for the purposeof teach ing wisdom to a King of
By Susan Ballard.
FAIR Y TA L ES FROM OL D JA PAN.
Seven popular stories .
By Matilda C. Ayrton.
CHIL D L IFE IN JA PANAND JA PANESE CHIL D STOR TES .
Sympathetic descriptions of the life and past imes of Japanesechildren together with a fewof the most popular nursery tales .
By Maude B . Dutton.
THE TORTOISE AND THE GEESE.
A collection of the best of the fables of Bidpai , the sage of
VOL . I
WhoKilled the Otter’s BabiesThe Elephant has a Bet with the TigerThe Thi ne that Makes the Tiger DrowsyThe King of the Tigers is SickThe Man and his Piece of ClothThe L ion, the Fox and the Story-TellerThe Sea, the Fox and the WolfThe Tiger, the Fox and the HuntersThe Birds and the L imbThe Raven and the Cattle
Singh Rajah and the Cunning L ittle JackalsThe Brahmin, the Tiger and the Six JudgesTit for Tat
The Son of Seven QueensHowtheRaja
’
s SonWon thePrincess Laham
TheHaughty Princess
FO L K STOR IES AND FA B L ES
OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
ERN FOREST, adapted by WalterW. Skeet.
Stories from theMalay peninsula. THE GIANT CRAB AND OTHER TALE mom INDIA .
Indian folk stories most of them about animals.
From INDIANFABLES, edited by P. V . Rama
India is thehomeof fables and even those ofE sop arethought to have originated there. For thousands of
years they have been used by Buddhist teachers toInculcate wisdom and morality.
By Flora A . Steele.
TAL ES OF THE PUNJAB .
A good collection of Indian folk stories.
FI-OIn CELTIC FA IRY TA L ES , by Joseph By Joseph Jacobs.
Jacobs. MORE CEL TIC FA IRY TA L ES.
These stories are admirably told with much of the Both of these collect ions include stories from Scotland andquaintness and humor of the originals. Wales as well as from Ireland.
From FIRESIDE STORIES OF IREL AND , by By Alfred Percival Graves.Patrick Kennedy. THE IRISH FA IR Y BOOK.
A selection frommany sources of the best of the Irishmythsand folk tales .
Iii-om FA IR Y L EGENDS AND TR ADrrIONS or By Seumas McManus.
IR EL AND , by T. Crofton Croker. IN CHIMNEY CORNERS .
A comprehensive collection of folk tales told in the DONEGA L FA IR Y STORIES .
language of the people. Good collections of Irish folk tales.
mom OL D DECCAN DAYS ; OR , HINDU FA IR YL EGENDS CURRENT IN SOUTHERN INDIA . Col
lected from oral tradition by M. Frere.
An extensive and very interesting collect ion.
From INDIANFA IR YTAL ES, adapted byJosephJacobs.
Excellent versions of the best of the Old Hindu fairy
FOL K STOR IES AND FA B L ES VOL . I
THEIR SOURCE OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
AMERICAN STORIESCompair L apin’
s God-child From LOUISIANA FOLK TA L ES, by AICée By W. J.Hopkins.
Compair L apin and Mr. Turkey Fot ticr. THE INDIAN BOOR .
Published under the direction of the Ameri can Folk A collection of American Indian folk stories and legends .
By Margaret Compton.
TR E SNOW-BIRD AND THEWATER-TIGER , AND OTHERAm ICAN INDIAN TA L ES.
Primitive folk stories of a highly imaginative order.
B anan a 0
By Mary Austin.
B’
Loggerhead and B ConchL
F
Eztwards.
SONGS AND STORIES by ChasTRE Bu m WOMAN.
Published under the direction of the Ameri can FolkFwd “W“ °f the Ute Indians of SouthernCalifornia
Lore Society.
Fro Tm P By Howard Angus Kennedy.The Boy and theMud PonyGeo.
I
X. Dol
1.
1
8
1
:cs OR THE Sm AWNEE by
THE NEW WORL D FA IRY BOOK.
Published under the direction of the Ameri can FolkMany Of these fairy tales are based on the folk lore Of the
Lore Society.
The Story Of the Pigs From NIGETS WITR UNCL E REMUB, by Joel Biocl C
lilandler H
fis
bmm sHow Brother Fox Failed to Get Grapes. Chandler Han-18. U
N
CL E
R
m s AND
SO SWhy Bmthef Be“ H” "0 Tail A collection of negro font stories filled with uaintNew m s’ “I
R
“ “G“N Am “
wisdom and humor. Most children are deligh withTom BY
:UFCL E
them especially when read aloud.More stones In negro dialect .
L ITTL E MR . TRm R L Er'
INGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY .
Animal stories told by Brother Rabbit to some childrenwho
VOL . I FOL K STOR IES AND FA B L ES
m m SOURCE OTHRR RELATED BOOKS
The Geese that L aid Gelden E888 From THE BOOK or FABL ES. By Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora ArchibaldThe Boys and the Frogs A collection of fables from E sop selectedandadaptedThe shephe'd'B” and theW0“ by Horace E Scudder THE TALKING BEASTS : A BOOK or FARL EWISDOM.
The Lwh and the Mouse Another good edition of E sop’s fables IsTh best Iabl of allThe Sun and the Wmd d retold by Joseph Jacobswith an introduction giving e es countnu .
Belling the Cat an account of their
The Fox and the GrapesThe Frog and the OxThe Dog In the Manger
The Cat , the Monkey and the ChestnutsThe Country-Maid and herMilk-PailThe Fox in theWell
The Ass in the L ion’
s SkinThe Tortoise and the HareThe Dog and his ShadowThe L ark and her Young OnesThe Fox and the Stork
The Discontented Pendulum From THE CONTRIBUTIONS or Q. Q.
PERIODICA L WORK, by Jane Taylor.(See page 34
The Golden Egg and the Cock of Gold FTom DREAM CHILDREN, by HoraceE. Scud By Horace E. Scudder.
der. SEVEN e rL E PEOPL E.
Modern fairy stories.
More modern fairy stories.
Why the Evergreen Trees never Lose th eir From THE BOOK or NATUR E MYTHS , by By Abbie Fatwell Brown.
l e aves Florence Holbrook . THE CUR IOUS BOOK or BIRDS.
Why there ‘3 a Man.
“1 the MO0“ A collect ion of short stories from primitive folk lore Bh'd stories from the f01k lore Of many countries.
Why the Cat always Falls upon her Feet retold in good and simple fashion.BOOK or SA INTS AND FR IENDL Y BEASTS .
“L egends of the lesser saints and the animals associated
with them retold as simple folk tales.
”
18 FOL K STOR IES AND FA B L ES
Suggestions f or Further R eading
OLD FAIRY TALESBy Andrew Lang .
THE RED FA IR Y BOOK.
THE GR EEN FAIR Y BOOK.
“ 1: YELLOW FAIR Y BOOK.
THE GR AY FA IR Y BOOK.
THE m FA IR Y BOOK.
THE VIOL ET FAIRY BOOK.
THE CRIMSON FA IRY BOOK.
THE ORANGE FA IRY BOOK.
THE BROWN FA IRY BOOK.
THE OL IVE FA IR Y BOOK.
h m L IL AC FA IR Y BOOK.
Nearly all of the world’
s best fairy stories and folk tales are included in these collections. The first three are the best .
By Edouard LaboulayeTHE FA IR Y BOOK.
L AST FA IRY TA L ES .
Entertaining collections of stories adapted from the folk lore of many lands.
By Kate Douglas Wiggin andNora A . Smith .
THE FAIRY R ING.
MA GIC CASEMENTS .
TM or L AUGHTER .
TM or WONDER .
Admirable collections of fplk and fairy tales from many countries.
By Mrs. M. Cary.
FAIRY LEGENDS or THE FRENCH PROV INCES .
A delightful volume.
By R . Nesbit.
WONDER STOR IES
h e folk stories of Russia are unsurpassed in fancy and humor.
By Ernest Rhys.
FA IR Y GOL D.A book of old English fairy tales and romances.
By Anne Macdonell .
By Frances Brown.
GRANNY’S WONDER FUL CHA IR .
Fairy stories and moral tales.
By Frank R . Stockton.
A collect ion of modern fairy stories, some of which bid fair to become classics.
By William Dean Howells.
CHR ISTMAS EVERY DAY , AND OTHER TA Lm .
Four good stories.
VOL . I
MODERN FAIRY TALES AND WONDER STOR IESBy Lewis Carroll .A L ICE’
S ADVENTURES IN WONDERL AND.THROUGH THE LOOKING GL ASS.
Every child should read these delightful ly absurd stories. the best andmost popularof all modern wonder books. (See pageBy Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik .
THE ADVENTURES or A BROWNIE.
A lively and very popular story of a house fairy.
By Abbie Farwell Brown.
THE LONESOMEST DOL L .
A delightful fairy story. The characters are a princess. a porter's daughter, a bandof robbers and the Lonesomest Doll .
VOLUME 11. MYTHS FROM MANY LANDS
Myths are the natural l i terature of chi ldhood . The chi ld delights in them, and i n f ami l iarizing himself wi ththem i s preparing to appropriate and to enjoy i n later years the f rui ts of the highest imaginative l iterature ; f orwi thout a knowledge of mythology hewi ll fi nd himself upon the sea of letters l ike a ship wi thout a chart.
”
THE STORIES OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
mom A WONDER BOOK and TANGL EWOODTA L ES , by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Themost popular versions of theGreek myths. Hawthorne makes no attempt to preserve the classic spirit
of the orig inals, but tells the stories in his ownand inimitable way.
FromOL DGREEK FOLK STORIES, byJosephinePreston Peabody.
A book that young people enjoy and that gives thema true idea of the spirit of the Greek myths .
The Giant Builder From IN THE DA YS or GIANTS. TA L E FROMThe Quest of the Hammer SCANDINA VIAN MYTHOLOGY, by Abbie FarwellThe Dwarf
’
s Gifts
Balder and theMistletoeOne of themost readable and attractive collect ions ofNorse myths.
By R . E. Francil lon.
GODS AND HEROES, OR THE KINGDOM OF JUPITER .
The best version of the dassic myths for younger children .
By Charles Kingsley.
HEROES. OR GREEK FA IR Y TAL ES.
The Greek myths retold in noble and poetic language. Thebest version for older boys and girls.
By Alfred J. Church .
STOR IES OF THE OL D WORL D .A large and well told collection of classicmyths and legends.
By W. M . L . Hutchinson.
THE GOL DEN PORCH, A BOOK OF GREEK FA IR YTA L ES .
Adapted from theOdes oi Pindar. Full of color and exquisite description.
”
By H. W. Mabie.
NORSE STORIES RE'
rOL D FROM THE EDDAS .
There are no better versions Of theNorse myths than thoseof Mr. Mabie.
By Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings .
ASGA RD STOR IES.
Tales from Norse mythology Simplified for the youngerreaders.
VOL . II MYTHS FR OM M ANY L AND S 2]
OTHER RELATED BOOKS
Thor’
s Adventures among the JotunsHow the Wolf Fenris was ChainedThe Wonderful Quern Stones
Iduna’
s Apples
MYTHS OF JA PANThe Ashes that made Trees Bloom From JAPAN INHISTORY, FOL K LORE AND A RT,
byW. E. Gfims.
The story of Japan told in a concise and readablemanner.
The Elves and the Envious Neighbor From TA L ES OF OL D JA PAN, byA . B.Mitford.
(See page
Nedzumi From OL D WOR L D JA PAN. L EGENDS OF THE
The Palace of the Ocean-Bed L AND OF THE GODS, by Frank R inder.
Thzu
gigigsi fs'g‘gdfu A
h
tra
gnes
zation t
‘
l
iiat is unusually sucessful in brin
gingt t t ti°
t th J
ga i-Taro,
lt.he Son of the Thunder-God
on e u y an M 0 8pm Of 6 8m m my 8
he Star vers
The Child of the Forest By Mrs L . Houghton.
A RUSSIAN GRANDMOTHER ’
S WONDER TA L ES.
MYTHS OF THE SL AVE A most interesting collection of fairy tales from Southerl
The Prince with the Golden Hand From FA IR Y TA L ES OF THE SL Av PEASANTS Rum“
The Dwarf with the Long Beard AND HERDSMEN, by Alex. Chodsko. By Jeremiah Curtin.
The Sun ; or , the Three Golden Hairs of A thoroughly enjoyable collection of fanciful tales. MYTHSm FOL KTA L ES OF THE RUSSIANB ,WESTER I'
the Old Man V sévéde SL AVS AND MAGYARS.
A splendid collect ion for Older children. Mr. Curtin is welknown as the translator of the novels of Sienkiewicz as well a;for his studies in folk lore .
From WONDER FUL STORIm FROM NORTHERN By Mary E. L itchfield.
L ANDS, by Julia Goddard. THE NINE WOR L DS.
Thirteen well toldNorse tales.Good and simple versions of theNorthlandmyth.
From THE HEROES OF ASGAR D, by A . and E. By Filson Young .
Keary. STOR IES OF THE WAGNER OPER AS .
A popular collect ion Of Norse myths with an intro The stories are taken from Old myths and legends.
duct ion giving an account of the Eddas, the ancient col
lections Of the tales of Scandinavian gods and heroes.
By W. E. Gfifi s.
THE JA PANESE FA IRY WORL D.Thirty four capital stories from the wonder-lore of Japan.
By Yei Theodora Ozaki.WAR R IORS OF OL D JA PAN AND OTHER STOR IES .
Tales from the mytholog ical and legendary history of thq
lud
’
Kingdom, retold by the author of Japanese Fair;es .
By V iolet M . Pastern.
GODS AND HEROES OF OL D JA PAN.
Stories from the sacred writings and ancient h istories Of thq
Japanese .
By LafcadioHeam .
KWA IDAN.
Strange stories of spirits and enchantments retold from thq
ancient books of Japan . A book for Older boys and girls.
MYTHS FR OM M ANY L AND S VOL . II
THEIR SOURCE
From OL D DEOOAN DAYS , by M . Frere. By Sister Nivedita.
(See page CRADL E TAL ES OF HINDUISM.
Suggestions f or f urther R eading
By HamiltonWright Mabie.
MYTHS THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW.
A collection of the choicest myths Of Greece and Rome.
By Washington Irving .
TA L ES FROM THE AL HAMBR A .
Arranged for children by Josephine Brower. The legends. traditions and fairytales time has woven about the famous Moorish palace.
By Zitkala-Sa.
flyths of the RedMen as told by theDakota story-tellers to little Indian boys and
g r
By Mary Grant O’Sheridan.
GA EL Ic FOL K STOR IES .
Tales of the ancient heroes Of Ireland adapted from the three sagacyclu of Gaelicmythology.
By Thomas Bulfinch .
THE AGE OF FAR L E.
The standard reference book Of mythology. It contains an outline of themyths dGreece and Rome, Scandinavia and India.
By CharlesM. Cayley.
THE CL ASSIC MYTHS IN ENGL ISH L ITERATURE.
Based on Bulfinch’
s“Age of Fable, ” but rather more interesting .
VOLUME III. STORIES FROM THE CLASSICS
A clear or natural eap ression by word or deed is thatwhich we mean when we love and praise the antique.
THE STORIES
L adronius , the Prince of ThievesA rion and the Dolphin
OL D GREEK FOLK STORImOrpheus and EurydiceIcarus and DwdalusPhaethonNiobePyramus and Thisbe
STORIES OF THE TROJ AN WAR
The Apple of DiscordTheWooden Horse and theFall Of
THEIR SOURCE
Iii-cm WONDER STORIES FROM HERODOTUS.
Re told by S. H. Boden and W. Barringtond’Almeida.
A delightful adaptation of a fewOf themost interesting tales found In the works Of this famous traveler.
From A WONDER BOOK , byNathaniel Hawthorne.
Iii-cm TANGL EWOOD TA LES , by NathanielHawthorne.
(See page
FromOL DGREEK FOLK STORIES , by JosephinePreston Peabody.
(See page 90)
FromOL DGREEK FOLK STORIES, byJosephinePreston Peabody.
(See page
R A L PH WAL DO EMERSON.
OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
By Alfred J. Church .
STOR IES OF THE EA ST FROMHERODOTUS.
Mr. Church ’
s versions Of the Old classics are alwayswell toldand true to the original .
By Alfred J. Church .
STORIm FROM OV ID.
By Sir G. W. Cox.
TA L ES OF ANCIENT GREECE .
A large collection Of Greek myths and legends retold forOlder boys and girls with an introduction giving an account of
their origin and history.
By William Cul len Bryant.IR E IL IA D .In blank verse. One of the best translations of this great
epIc poem.
From STORIm FROM L IV Y , by Alfred J. By T. B . Macaulay.
Church . L AYS OF ANCIENT ROME.
Tales of early Roman history drawn from the greatest These heroic and inspiring poems will be particularly appof Roman historians. cis ted by the children after reading the selections from Ivy .
A good translat ion of L ivy is by George Baker, published inHarper’s Classical L ibrary.
THE STORE S
The Fight between Paris and Menelaus
The Duel between Hector and AjaxVulcan Makes Armour for Achilles
The Slaying of HectorThe Funeral Games inHonor Of PatroclusThe Quarrel between Agamemnon and
Achilles
The Death of Patroclus and the Battle ofthe R iver
THE WANDER INGS OF UL YSSESThe Adventure with the Cyclops
Circe’s Palace
The Sirens ScyllaandCharybdis
UL Yssm IN ITHACAUlysses L ands on the Shore Of IthacaUlysses at the House of the SwineherdHis R eception at the PalaceThe Slaying Of the SuitorsThe Trial Of the BowPenelope Recognizes Ulysses
THE WANDERINGS OF THE TROJAN ENEAS
Th’f‘rf
light of E neas from the Ruins Of
YE neas andQueen DidoE neas finally Conquers the L atins
STOR IES FR OM THE C L A SSICS
THEIR SOURCE
From THE BOY’S IL IAD , by Walter C. Perry. By Lang , L eaf and Myers.
THE IL IA D.In prose. A vigorous and pictures que translation.
From THE STORY OF THE IL IAD, by Alfred J. By Alfred J. Church .
! THE IL IA D FOR BOYS AND GIR L S.
Somewhat simpler than the Story of the Iliad by the same
author.
From THE STORY OF THEODYSSEY, by Alfred
From TANGL EWOOD TAL ES , by NathanielHawthorne.
(See pageFrom THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER , translated by
George Herbert Palmer.
Even L amb’s story of Odysseus seldom stirs the
little folk as does this translation in which the poetryand swing Of the great epic are preserved.
From THE ADVENTURES OFODYSSEUS, by F. S. By Alfred J. Church .
Marvin , R . J. C . Mayor, and F.M . Stowell . [THE ODYSSEY FOR BOYS AND GIRIS .
The best version for younger children.
From THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER , translated by By James Baldwin.
George Herbert Palmer. A STORY OF THE GOL DEN AGE .
(See above.) Various legends concerning the causes Of the Trojan War
woven into a story with Odysseus as hero.
Iii-om STORIES FROM V IRGIL , by Alfred J. By C. P. Cranch .
Church . THE E NEID.In blank verse. The best translation for Older boys and
By Will iam Cul len Bryant.THE ODYSSEY.
In blank verse. One Of the best translations Of this greatepIc poem.
By Butcher, L eaf and Lang .
THE ODYSSEY.
In prose. A vigorous and picturesque translation.
By Charles Lamb .THE ADVENTURES OF UL YSSES .
For over a century this version Of the Odyssey has been a
favorite with children.
VOL . III STOR IES FR OM THE C L A SSICS
1Eneas’
Adventure with the Harpies From STOR IES OF OL D ROME , by C. H. Hana
e sm a e
e ne m en 0 nc Ises
E n Visit to the LowerWorldThe wandermgs of Eneas and the foundIng of Rome
told in a clear and simple manner.
E neas’
First Great Battle with the Ia tins
Suggestionsf or
STOR IES FROM ANCIENT L ITERATUREBy Edmund J. Carpenter.
L ONG AGO INGREECE. A BOOK OF GOL DENHOURS WITH THEOLD STORY
Twenty-four stories from Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid. and others.
By Alfred J. Church .
HEROES AND KINGS.
Stories from Apollonius, Homer, and Herodotus .
STORIES FROM THE GREEK TR AGEDIANS .
STOR IES FROM THE GREEK COMEDIANS.
Interesting and well told.
THE GREEK GUL L IVER .
Wonder stories from L ucian.
By John S. White.
PLUTARCH FOR BOYS AND GIR L S.
This is an interesti adaptation from one Of theworld’
s greatest writers . The livesof Themistocles, Peri es, A lexander, and Julius Cm r are particularly recommended.
STOR IES OF ANCIENT L IFEBy Alfred J. Church .
PICTURES FROM GREEK L IFE AND STORY.
PICTUR ES FROM ROMAN L IFE AND STORY.
THREE GREEK CHIL DREN.
THE YOUNG MA CEDONIAN.
Accurate and interesting accounts of life in the Old days.
STOR IES OF THE PERSIAN WARS .
HELMET AND SPEAR .
Stories of the wars of the Greeks and Romans.
OTHER RELATED BOOKS
Further R eading
By Alfred J. Church .
LORDS OF THE WORL D.A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth .
TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
The hero is a young man on board a vessel detailed for the suppression of piracy.
THE BURNING OF ROME.
A vivid story of Rome in the days OfNero following the accounts Of Tacitus.By Charlotte Yonge.
THE COOK AND THE CAPTIVE.
A good story of the Romans in Gaul .By Gen. L ewWallace.
BEN HUR ; A TA L E OF THE CHRIST.
The sea fightwith the pirates and the chariot race at Antioch are among the thrillingincidents Of this popular story of the first ce ntury.
By Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
THE L AST DAYS OF POMPEII .One of the most famous Of modern novels dealing with life in ancient Rome.
By Charles Kingsley.
HYPATIA .
A story of the confl ict between Christianity and Paganism in the 5th century.
By EvaMarch Tappan.
THE STORY OF THE GREEK PEOPL E.
THE STORY OF THE ROMAN PEOPL E.
Entertainingly written and historically accurate. these books give an adequateaccount of the history of Greece and Rome.
By William Shakespeare.
JUL IUS CE SAR .
This playwill be doubly appreciatedafter the knowledge Of Roman life and historygained from the books given above. (See page
VOLUME IV. STORIES OF LEGENDARY HEROES
Courage, generosi ty, poli teness, consideration f or the weak , and self-respect bef ore the strong , a h igh sens e ofhonor and a steadf ast devotion to duty, in a word, al l tha t goes to make up true manl iness , is f ound in these old
tales wi thout a hint of moralizing , but as a series of beautiful and noble p ictures to be admi red and remembered
f orever . WA LTER TA YLOR FIEL D .
HEROIB OF THE BRITISH ISLmBeowulf
A rthur is Chosen King and Gets his SwordExcalibur
The Institution Of the Ques t Of the HolyGrail
Sir BorS and Sir L ionel
L auncelot and Elaine
The Death Of King Arthur
THEIR SOURCE OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
From GUDRUN, BEOWUL F AND ROL AND, by By Clarence Grifi n Child.
John Gibb .The epic Of Beowulf was first chanted by the
Danish be about the fifth century. It was broughtby them to Eng land and there committed towriting inthe eighth century .
From MORTE D’
ARTHUR , byThomasMalory,edited by Sir Edmund Strachey.
“The finest and most inspiring group Of legends to be
found anywhere in literature . Children find them an
inspiration to right thinking and noble living .
The legendary heroes of King Arthur’s court were a
favorite subject for the poets and romancers Of themiddle ages and many stories Of their exploits werecurrent , particularly in France and Germany. The bestof these stories were collected byThomas Malory in thesixteenth century and translated intoEnglish under thetit le
“Morte d’
Arthur.
”
(See Characters and Incidentsof The Children’
s Hour. page
BEOWUL F. (R iverside L iterature Series .)A complete and literal translation.
By L illian 0. Stevens and E. F. Allen.
KING ARTHUR STOR IES FROMMA LORY.
(R iverside L iterature Series.)A connected group Of King A rthur stories told in Malory
’
s
quaint language.
By Howard Pyle .
THE STORY OF KING AR THUR AND HIS KNIGHTS .
THE STORY OF THE CHAMPIONS OF THE ROUNDTA B L E.
THE STORY OF SIR L AUNCELOT AND HIS COMPANIONS .
THE STORY OF THE GR A IL AND THE PA SSING OF
ARTHUR .
Boys are always delighted with these spirited versions .
By Sidney Lanier.
THE BOY’S KING A RTHUR .
R etold from Malory by one of America’
s chief poets andessayists .
By Mary Macleod.
THE BOOK OFKING A RTHUR AND HISNOBL E KNIGHTSThe best version for younger children.
STOR IES OF L EGEND A R Y HER OES VOL . IV
THE STORE S
Rodrigo and the L eper
The Knighting of RodrigThe Cid is Driven into BanishmentThe Cid Comes to the A id Of the KingHow the CidMade a Coward into a Brave
How the Cid Ruled Valencia
TheMarriage Of theCid’
sTwoDaughters tothe Infantes of Carrion.
The Trial by SwordsThe Cid’
s L ast VictoryThe Burial Of the Cid
THE PERSIAN HERO
The Childhood Of Rustum
The Seven Adventures of RustumR ustum and Sohrab
From EPICS AND RoMANcm OF THE MIDDL EAGES , adapted by M . W. Macdowal l .Includes the stories Of L ohengrin. Percival, Tristram
and Isolde,Tannhiiuser, theNibelung , and other legendson which the operas ofWagner are based.
The story of Siegfried Is taken fromed, an ancient German epicin the 1sth century, probablyOlder hero tales .
From the CHRONICL ES OF THE CID , compiledand translated from the ancient Spanish manuscripts by Robert Southey.
The Cid is the national hero of Spain and manyromances were written in themiddle ages tocelebratehis valiant deeds. (SeeCharacters and IncidentsofTheChildren ’
s Hour, page
FromHEROES OF EA STERNROMANCE, OR STOR
IES OF THE MAGICIANS , by Alfred J. Church .
A lso conta ins a prose version Of Southey’S Orientalromances,
“Thalaba, the Destroyer ” and The Curse
of Kehama.
The legend of Sohrab and Rustum is taken from theBook ofKings, an epic m written in the loth centby Firdausi. giving c history of
By Calvin Dill Wilson.
THE STORY OF THE CID .
This is a Simpler and more concise version ofSouthey’s trans
By Elizabeth D . Renninger.
THE STORY OF RUSTUM.
By MatthewArnold.
SOHRAB AND R USTUM.
A famous poem based on the Persian romance.
THE STOR Y OF SIEGFRIED.A full account of themany strange anddaring deedswrough tby this famous hero.
By Daniel B . Shumway.
THE NIBEL UNGENL IED.A literal translat ion of this great German epic telling Of the
life and death of Siegfried and of the vengeance that overtook
la
By Richard Markham.
HEROES OF CHIVA L RY.
A good account of the life and exploits of the Cid. This volume also contains the life of Chevalier Bayard,
“the Knig ht
without fear and without reproach, ” by E. C . Kindersley .
VOL . IV STOR IES OF L EGENDA R Y HER OES
Suggestionsf or Further R eading
STOR IES FROM MEDIE VAL L ITERATUREBy Horace E. Scudder.
THE BOOK OF LEGENDS.
Contains simple versions Of St . George and the Dragon.WilliamTell.The FlyingDutchman, and other well known legends.
By Marion Florence Lansing .
PAGE, SQUIRE AND KNIGHT.
Tales of King A rthur, Charlemagne, Bayard, and others, in simple story form . A
good introduction to the
BEL T AND SPUR .
Stories OfWill iam the Conqueror, Richard Ce nt de L ion, the Black Prince, Hotspur, and other valiant knights, retold from the Old chronicles .
By Joseph Jacobs.
THE BOOK OF WONDER VOYAGE .
TheArgonauts, Maelduin, Hasan of Bassorah.Thorkill.andEric theFarTravelled.
By Andrew Lang .
THE BOOK OF ROMANCE.
A splendid collection of hero stories including King Arthur, Roland. Grettir theStrong , and Robin Hood.
By F. J. Harvey Darton.
A WONDER BOOK OF OL D ROMANCE.
The knightly legends of King Robert of Sicily, Sir Gawain and theGreenKnight,Guy of Warwick , and others.
By James Baldwin.
THE HORSE FA IR .
A collection ofW legends and stories relating to famous horses.
By ThomasWentworth Higginson.
TA L ES OF THE ENCHANTED ISL ANDS OF THE ATL ANTIC.Heroic legends connected with the fabulous islands of medireval times.
By Anna Alice Chapin.
WONDER TA L ES FROM WAGNER .
The stories of the Flying Dutchman,Tannhlluser.Tristram and Isolde, and Hans
STORY OF THE RHINEGOL D.Wagner
’
s operas of theNibelungen R ing retold for young people.
By Christopher Hare.
THE STORY OF BA YAR D, THE GOOD KNIGHTWITHOUTFEAR AND WITHOUT
Retold from the old chronicles.
By Sebastian Evans.
THE HIGH HISTORY OF THE HOL Y GRAIL .
Translated from the French . A quaint and beautiful version that will appeal toalllovers of old romance.
By Alfred J. Church .
HEROES OF CHIVA L RY AND ROMANCE.
Beowulf, King A rthur, and Siegfried.
THE FA IR Y QUEEN AND HER KNIGHTS.
Retold from Edmund Spenser’s great romantic poem The Faerie Queene.
By MaryMcL eod.
STOR IES FROM THE FAER IE QUEENE.
Adventures of the Red Cross Knight, the perilous voyages Of Sir Guyon in searchof the Bower of Bliss, theQuest of Britomart, thewarrior princess and other tales ofbrave knights and fair ladies .
”
By H. C . Hollway-Calthrop.
PA L ADIN AND SAR A CEN.
The Orlando of Ariosto, the great Italian poet , adapted for young people. Thisfamous epic romance is full of wonderful adventures and knightly deeds.
By EvaMarch Tappan.
CHAUCER STORY BOOK.
Palamon and Arcite, Patient Griselda, and other of the ever popular CanterburyTales,
”
retold in the prose of to-day.
STOR IES OF L EGEND A R Y HER OES
THE BOY ’S FROISSART.
This famous chronicle covering the history of France and England during the 14thcentury retold in clear and simple Eng lish . For centuries boys have been thri lledby these tales of hard fought battles and doughty deeds .
By T. W. Rolleston.
THE HIGH DEEDS OF FINN AND OTHER BAR DIC ROMANcm OF ANCIENT
Stories of Finn MacCumhal the mighty captain, Conn of the Hundred Batt les,King Cormac and many other illustrious rulers and valiant fighting men . No othermyths and legends are as full of poetic feeling , love of nature, and appreciation of
beauty as the Celt ic, and these qualities are admirably preserved in Mr. Rolleston’
s
versions.
By Eleanor Hull .THE BOY’S CUCHUL AN.
A spirited retelling of the heroic legends Of Ireland.
By Jeremiah Curtin.
HERO TA L ES OF IREL AND.L egendary and mythological stories as told by the peasant folk of to-day.
STOR IES OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY(In Prose)
By Charles Kingsley.
HEREWARD THE WAKE .
The brilliant exploits of a young adventurer at the t ime of theNorman Conquest .By Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
HAROL D , THE L AST OF THE SAKONS .
i
A vivid and historically accurate picture of the struggle between theNormans andthe Saxons for the mastery of England.
By A llen French .
SIR MA RROK .
A tale of the days of King Arthur.
By SirWal ter Scott.
IVANHOE.
A story of Eng land at the time of R ichard, the L ionHearted. (See pageTHE TA L ISMAN.
A story of the Crusades . These thrilling novels are full of the spirit of chivalry andromance.
By A . Conan Doyle.
THE WHITE COMPANY.
The exploits of an Eng lish band of free lancers in the wars Of the Black Prince. Allboys are fascinated by this story of desperate battles and thrilling adventures .
STOR IES OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY(In V erse)
L IFE INTHEMIDDLE AGESBy EvaMarch Tappan.
WHEN KNIGHTS WER E BOL D .IN THE DAYS OF A L FR ED THE GR EAT.
IN THE DAYS OF WIL L IAM THE CONQUEROR .
By Alfred J. Church .
STOR IES FROM ENGL ISH HISTORY, FROM JUL IUS CE SA R TO THE B L ACK
PR INCE .
The knowledge of feudal customs and medie val history given by these book s wil lgreatly add to the interest of the stories in this volume.
By Sir Wal ter Scott.
MARMION.
A stirring poem of the Scottish invasion of England under James IV culminating inthe battle of Flodden Field.
THE L A Y OF THE L A ST MINSTREL .
A song of border warfare and enchantment in the l 6th century.
THE L ADY OF THE L AKE.
A romantic poem of love and war.
By Sidney Lanier.
THE BOY’S PERCY.
Ballads of war, adventure , and love from Percy’s Reliques of Ancient E
Poetry.
”
The old ballads in Vol . IX of“The Children’
s Hour”
will be part i
enjoyed if read at this time.
By Alfred Tennyson.
THE IDYL L S OF THE KING .
The legends ofKing A rthur and his Court retold in noble verse . A poem wh ich hasmore epical grandeur and completeness than anything that has beenmade in Eng landsince Milton died.
”
Dr. Henry van Dyke.
VOLUME V. STORIES FROM SEVEN OLD FAVORITES
Thefi rst time I read an excellent book , i t i s to mejust as if ] had gained a newf riend; when I read over
book I haveperused bef ore, i t resembles a meeting wi th an old one. OL IV ER GOL DSMITH.
THE STORIES THEIR SOURCE OTHER RELATED BOOKS
Christian Passes through the Wicket GateA V isit to the House of the InterpreterA t the House Beaut ifulChristian’
s Fight with ApollyonThe Castle of Giant DespairThe Delectable Mountains
The PilgrimsWander from theWayThe Celestial City
Robinson Crusoe is ShipwreckedUnloading aWreck
Robinson Crusoe ’
s FirstHome on the IslandRobinson Crusoe Builds a BoatThe Mysterious FootprintThe Coming of FridayHomeward Bound
Gulliver is Shipwrecked on the Coast of
L ill iput
Gulliver seizes the Enemy’s FleetA L ill iputian Ode to the Man-Moun
Among the Brobdingnagian GiantsAdventures in BrobdingnagGulliver
’
s Escape
From THE PIIG R IM’
S PROGRESS FROM THISWOR L D To THA T WHICH IS TO COME. DEL IVEREDUNDER THE SIMIL ITUDE OF A DREAM. Written byJohn Bunyan about 1670.
There is an inexpensive edition of this classic with a
sketch of the author’
s life in the R iverside School L i
brary (Houghton Mifi in a handsome volume
illustrated in colors by the brothers Rhead (The Century and many other editions .
The Pilgrim '
s Progress ” has been translated
venty-five different languages and dialects .
FromTHE L IFE AND STRANGE ADVENTUR ES OFROBINSONCRUSOE , OF YORK , MA RINER . Written
by Daniel Defoe and published in 1719 .
Robinson Crusoe is published with a short sketch of
Defoe’
s life in the R iverside School L ibrary (HoughtonCompany). An edition that always appeals to
young people is the one illustrated in color by E. BoydSmi th (Houghton Mimin
FromTR AVEL S INTO SEVER A L REMOTENATIONSOF THEWOR L D RY L EMUEL GUL L IVER .
Written by Jonathan Swift and published in 1There are several editions of Gulliver
’
sTravels abridgedfor young people including one in the R iverside L it
erature Series wi th introduction and notes (HoughtonMifi in and an edition with illustrations in color
by Arthur Backham (E. P. Dutton Co.)
The Pilgrim’
s Progress Is unique in the world’
s literaturThe style is so simple and easy that any one can understand iand so vigorous and picturesque that the greatest authors ha~
taken it as a model . The story is such an enchanting mixtuof fairy tale. novel and adventurous romance
"
that for mo
than two htmdred years it has been a favorite with boys aIgirls in all parts of the world, and so rich in Wisdom and humIexperience that its influence has been greater than thatalmost any other English book.
Robinson Crusoe Is one of the greatest of all talesadventure . Defoe tells his story with such skill that the lonelife of the shi wrecked sailor seems as rea l to us as though I
had been on e island with him. And furthermore. Defoe h
given the world an inspiring picture of what one man Wicourage and perseverance can accomplish against overwhelIing obstacles . SwissFamilyRobinson (page is a somewhsimilar story, although inferior in artistic merit . For boo
describing sailor life see page 89 ; for novels dealing with shiwrecks, castaways, etc., see page 72.
There is no other book quite like Gulliver’
s Travels.
reading it , we can understand how many peo le when t
story was first published thought it really true. y the simpmatter Of fact way in which he writes of the wonders Gullivsaw, and by the care he takes to keep every thing in the rigproport ion. Swift has succeeded in making the impossible seereal . Gulliver
’
s Travels was written as a satire on polit ics anhuman nature, but the purpose has been almost forgotttthough the story itself is as popular as ever.
STOR IES FR OM
THE STORIES
Don Quixote Determines to Become a
KnightThe Fight with theWindmillsThe Innkeeper’s BillThe Battle of the SheepThe Conques t of Mambrino
’
s HelmetDon Quixote’s Battle with the GiantsDon Quixote Meets the L ions
The R ide on the Wooden HorseThe Three Thousand Three Hundred and
Odd L ashesThe Return and Death of Don Quixote
The Story of A laddin ; or, the WonderfulL amp
Al i Baba and the Forty ThievesSinbad the Sailor
The Baron’
s First Wanderings
The Baron’
s Journey to St . PetersburgThe Baron ’
s Wonderful HorseThe Baron’
s Cold Day
The Comedy Of ErrorsThe Merchant of V eniceThe Tempest
THEIR SOURCE
From THE ADVENTUR ES OF DON QUIxOTE DE
L A MANCHA , by Miguel de Cervantes Scavedra. Published in 1605 .
The best edition of Don Quixote for young people isthat retold by Judge Parry and illustrated by WalterCrane (John L ane
From THE AR ABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAm
MENTS , sometimes called THE THOUSAND AND
ONE NIGHTS .
Asiatic stories of unknown ant iquity, collected ro~
bably about the 16th century and first introduced)
to
Europe in 1704.
The best collect ion for young people is that edi tedby Andrew L ang (Longmans, Green Thereis also an inexpensive edition in the Riverside SchoolL ibrary (Houghton Mifi in
From THE TRAVEL S AND SURFR ISING ADVEN
TURES OF BA RONMUNCHA USEN, by Rudolph E.
Raspe.
There is an illustratededition, inTheChildren’
sFavo
rite Classics Series published by Thomas Y. Crowel lCO.
From TA L ES FROM SHA KESPEA RE. Twenty ofShakespeare’s plays rewritten for children byCharles and Mary Lamb . Published in 1807.
An attractive illustrated edition Of Tales is publishedby Charles Scribner’s Sons with illustrations in color
by Norman M. Price . There is an inexpensive editioni
s the Riverside School L ibrary (Houghton Mifl in
o.
SEVEN OL D FA VOR ITES V OL . V
L owell says of Don Quixote, It would be hard to find a
book more purely original and Without receden t .”
ThisWitty entertaining story with its kindly wisdom and profoundobservations on human life and characterwas wri tten by Cervantes, at the close of a life full of hardship and misfortune.
For three hundred years it has been ed as one of theworld
’
s greatest books and theregardt of the R ueful COImte~
nance as among the most noubl
li
e
n
fi raeterl in all literature.
There have been no other stories written so full of strangeadventures and gorgeous pictures as theold.old tales gatheredfrom the Orient under the name of the Thousand and (h eNights . Open a volume and you are straightway home into aworld of wonders a realm inhabited by sultans. sorcerer-s.demons and lovely princesses, where enchantments are no
longer rare. and genii grow on every bush .
TheTravels of BaronMunchausen are remarkable for theabundance of invention displayed and for the amusing serious
nesswithwhich themost absurd stories are told. The best andI
aoet entertaining of the tales are given in The Children
’
s
our.
Lamb’s Tales are chiefly valuable as an introduction to
Shakespeare himself. “The Tempest ” and
“A Midsummer
Night’
s Dream"
are the best to begin with .
“The Merchant
of Venice”
may be read shortly afte r. “ Julius Cesar” in con
nect ion with the selections in Volume III, then“King John.”
“R ichard III,
” “Twelfth Night.
” “Macbeth, and the ra t
of“that noble company.
"
An excellent one -volume Shakespeare is the CombEdi tion edi ted byWilliam A . Neilson (Houghton Mimia Co.
VOLUME VI.
The Captain of the Guard Rebels
Eyes andNoEyes ; or, the Art of SeeingThings by their R ightNamesThe ColonistsThe L ittle Philosopher
Tommy Merton meets Harry SandfordTommy Decides to Study Arithmetic
The Barring out, or Party SpiritSimple Susan
Frank Divides the CakeFrank Learns aNewWay toEat
OLD-FASHIONED STORIES AND POEMS
THEIR SOURCE OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
From MA L IE V IL L E, by Jacob Abbott. By Jacob Abbott.A story of life in NewHampshire . This is the first
volume of the Franconia Series and the best of Abbott ’sjuvenile books THE ROL ID BOOKS, eighteen volumes.
STORIES OF R AmDOW AND L UCKY. Five Volumes
From EVENINGS ATHOME ; OR , THE JUVENIL E ByHom e E. Scudder.BUDGET OPENED, by John Aiken and Mrs. THE BODL EY BOOKS.
Anna Letitia Barbauld. Eight volumes somewhat after the style of Jacob AbbottWell told and full of useful information.
From THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MER BYMTS SherwOOdTON,
by Thomas Day. THE FA IRCHIL D FAMIL Y.
This‘
Is one of the most famous of the Instructive This long story of three children and their pious parentswestories and for many generations Sandford and Merton popular 3 century 880 h“ recently been reprinted.
were familiar names to most English and American
FromEAR L Y LESSONS, by Maria Edgeworth . Compiled by E. V . Lucas.
Contains Harry and L ucy, L ittle Dog Trusty. The OL D FASHIONED TA L ES.
Orange-Man.The Cherry Orchard. Frank. Rosamond.
From the PA RENT’
S ASSISTANT; OR , STORIES
FOR CHIL DREN, by MariaEdgeworth . POPUL AR TA L ES .
Contains alsoTarlton, The False Key.The Orphans, Contains L ame Jerves, The Will. L imerick Gloves, Out cL azy L awrence, The Basket Woman, Eton Montem, Debt Out of Danger, Rosanna. The Lottery, Murad thWasteNot Want Not, Forr
gtve
Mand
.
Forget, TheWhite Unlucky, The Manufact The Contrast , The GrateftPigeon, The Bracelets, Mimic, Mademoiselle Negro, To-morrow.
Panache, Old Poz, The L ittleMerchants .
MOR AL TA LES .
Contains Forester, The Good Aunt, Angelina.
TA L ES THAT NEVER DIE .
A select ion of the best ofMiss Edgeworth’s storia edited bCharlesWelch .
34 OL D—FA SHIONED STOR IES AND POEMS V OL . VI
THE STORE S
The RenownedHistory Of L ittleGoodyTwoShoes
MosesGoes to theFair
Parley the Porter
Busy IdlenessThe SoreTongue
The Swiss Family Robinson’
s First Day on
the Desert Island
Poems and RhymesStories in V erse
THEIR SOURCE
By Oliver Goldsmith .
(Published separately.)
From THE V ICA R OF WAKEFIEL D by OliverGoldsmith .
A story of English country life. full of humor and
homely Wisdom. One of the most del ightful of al l English novels.
By Hannah More.
(Published separately.)
From THE CONTR IBUTIONS OF Q. Q. TO A PE
RIODICA L WORK , by Jane Taylor.
Prose and verse contributed to the Youths’
Maga
zine between 1816 and 1822.
FromTHESWISSFAMIL YROBINSON, byJohannRudolf Wyss.
A famous story of a family shipwrecked on an unin
habited island.
For Campbell, Cowper, Hemans, Southey, and
Wordsworth, see V ol . Ix . The remaining verses of this
volume are from books that are out Of print, generallyinaccessible, or containing no other poems of interest toyoung people.
Compiled by John Greenleaf Whi ttier .
CHIL D L IFE IN PROSE.
Stories , fancies andmemories of child life byThaxter. L amb.Saint Pierre, DeQuincey, Larcom.andothers. Not exact ly oldfashioned but contains many stories seldom me t wi th in morerecent collections .
By CaptainMarryat.
MA STERMAN REA DY.
A book very simi lar in subject and treatment to the SwimFamily Robinson.
By Ann and Jane Taylor andAdelaide O’Keefe.
THE OR IGINA L POEMS AND OTHERS.
Mr. E. V . L ucas has recently edited an edition of this book
that includes all the verses of these three authors, g iven in
The Children ’
s Hour, and many more of the same kind.
By Charles andMary L amb.
POETRY FOR CHIL DREN.
Recently reprinted with many quaint and delightful illustrat ions .
Compiled and illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith .
A CHILD ’S BOOK OF OL D VERSE.
The best of the old-fashioned poems .
A bout the Crow
A Woodland Intimate
Our NewNeighbors at Ponkapog
My Dog Wisie
A Faithful Dog
TheWar Eagle andOther Soldiers’
Pets
OUT—OF D OOR BOOKS
THEIR SOURCE
From BIRDS THROUGH AN OPER A GL ASS , byFlorence A . Merriam .
The habits , plumage, songs, and homes of more than70American birds.
From A R AMBL ER’
S LEASE, by BradfordTorrey.
Out-of-door sketches for older boys and girls by oneof America
’
s best nature writers.
From MAR JORIE DAwANDOTHER STORIES, byThomas Bailey Al drich .
From PRE TERITA . OUTL INES OF SCENES AND
THOUGHTS PERHA PS WORTHY OF MEMORY IN MYPA ST L IFE, by John Ruskin.
From TRUE TA L ES FOR MY GRANDSONS , bySir Samuel Wh ite Baker, the famous English sportsman and explorer.
From RECOL LECTIONS OF A DRUmIEB BOY, byHarryM . Kiefier.
A book that has long been a boy’
3 favorite. Theauthorwas a drummer In the l 5oth Pennsylvania Regiment during the Civil War.
VOL . V II
OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
By Florence A . Merriam .
BIRDS OF V IL L AGE AND FIEL D.A capital bird book for beginners.
By Bradford Torrey.
EVERYDA Y BIR DS .
Simple des criptions of common birds.
By Olive Thome Mil ler.
L ITTL E FOLKS IN FEATHEBS AND FUR AND OTHERSIN NEITHER .
Interesting stories of penguins, armadillos, anteaters, andother curious birds. animals, and insects.
By Dr. John Brown.
One of the best dog stories ever written .
By Alfred Oll ivant.BOB , SON OF BATTLE.
A story of a Scotch sheep dog and his friends.
By Eleanor Atkinson.
GREY-FBIA BS BOBBY.
A true story of a faithful dog .
By John Muir.
STICKERN.
A true story of a clever dog and a perilous adventure on an
glacier.
By Helen Hunt Jackson.
CAT STOR IES .
Bright interesting stories for small children .
By EvaMarch Tappan.
DIx IE KITTEN.
A true story of a pet cat.
VOL . VH
OurRural Divinity
About the Fox
Twin Babies
TheElephants that Struck
M ing Elephants in Ceylon
OUT OF DOOR BOOKS
From A L EKANDER THE GREAT, by Plutarch . By Olive Thome Miller.(See page FOUR -HANDED FOLK.
The queer doings of some pet monkeys.
Stories of cats, dogs, and birds and advice on howto care for
By Edward Brock .
True stories of two bear-cubs, a moose-calf, and other Wild
From BIR DS AND POETS, by John Burroughs.
From SQUIR REL S ANDOTHER FUR-BEARERS , byJohn Burroughs.
Mr. Burroughs’
nature studies though scientific and
authoritative are written m a simple and delightful wayand make very interest ing reading .
From TRUE BEAR STORIES , by Joaquin By Ernest Ingersoll .WIL D NEIGHBORS .
Many good stories of bear traits and of adventures An excellent book for arousing an interest in animals andwith bears. their habits .
From TRUE TA L ES FOR MY GR ANDSONS , by By Sir Samuel W. Baker.
Sir Samuel Whi te Baker. WIL D BEA STS AND THEIR WA YS .
(See page Interesting accounts of the tiger, elephant. bear, and otherimportant animals.
From THEWIL D EL EPHANT AND METHODS OF By W. P . Garrison.
CA PTUR ING AND TAMING IT IN CEYLON, by J. WHA TMR . DA RWINSAW INHIS VOYAGE A ROUND THE
Emerson Tennents. WORL D IN THE SHIP BEAGLE.
Simple, interesting accounts of animals and the savages,
given for the most part in Darwin’
s own language.
By John Burroughs.
BIRD STOR IES FROM BuR ROUoHs .
For younger readers.
WAHE ROBIN.
WINTER SUNSHINE .
LOUUSTS AND WIL D HONEY .
These and all other volumes of Mr. Burroughs’
out-oi-dooressays are valuable for inspiring a healthy love of nature andteaching the reader to observe the interesting details of plantand animal life.
How to Train a L ion
STORIES OP TR AVEL AND ADVENTUREAn African Pet
The Girl and the PantherIn a QuicksandA Traveler
’
s Ordeal
Escape of an Exile from Siberia
My Escape from the Patagonians
Champlain’
s Search for the Indies
A Night Alone on Chocorua
OUT OF D OOR BOOKS
Tm SOURCE
From THE TRA INING OP WIL D ANIMA L S , byFrank C . Bostock , one of the world’s greatestanimal trainers .
From STORIES PROM THE GORIL L A COUNTRY,narrated for young people, by Paul B. Du
From L IPE m THE DESERT, by Louis duCouret.
An art icle byWilliamWestall in the ContemporaryReview.
”
From THE CAPTIVE IN PATAGONIA , OR L IPE
AMONG THE GIANTS, by Benjamin FranklinBourne.
From THE PIONEERS OP FRANCE IN THE NEWWORL D, by Francis Parkman.
(See Page
From AT THE NORTH OP BEA RCAMP WATER .
CHRONICL ES OP A STROL L ER IN NEW ENGL ANDPROM JUL Y To DECEMBER , by Frank Bolles.
Nature sketches.
VOL . V II
OTHER RELATED BOOKS
TENT L IPE m SIBERIA .
An exciting account of exploration and adventure in Northern Asia.
By Thomas W. Knox.
THE TR AVEL S OP MA RCO POLO.
Adapted for children from the“Book of Marco Polo. A
stirring account of travel and adventure in the East in the 1sthcen tury from the narrative of theworld’
smost famous traveler.
By Tudor Jenks.
BOY’S BOOH OP EXPLORATION.
True stories of the heroes of travel and discovery in Asia,
Africa and Australia.
By Charles DudleyWarner.
IN THE WIL DERNESS .
Stories of hunting , fishing , camping out , etc. , in the Adirondack forests.
ADVENTURES IN THE WIL DERNESS ; OR , CAMP L IPEIN THE ADIRONDACHS.
By Ernest Young .
ADVENTURES AMONG HUNTERS AND TRA PPERs .
Romantic incidents and perils among animals, big and small ,in all parts of the world.
By Paul B . Du Chaillu.
THE COUNTRY OP THE DWA RPS.
LOST IN THE JUNGLE.
MY A PINGI KINGDOM.
WIL D L IPE UNDER THE EQUATOR .
Full of thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes fromld beasts and from the dwarfs, man-eaters and other savage
tribes of the Dark Continent .L AND OP THE LONG NIGHT.
Perilous travels within the Arctic circle.
For the travels of Stanley and L ivingstone see page 47 .
THE STORIES
A V isit from the Indians to Bartholomew
A Night at the Highland L ight
Our First Whale
Midshipmen’
s Pranks
A V isit to Robinson Crusoe’s Isle
DEEDS OP DAR INGCapturing Guillemots and Pufiins in Iceland
A Battle with a Cannon
The R isks of a Fireman’
s L ife
OUT OF DOOR BOOKS
From the account of John Brereton published inC
orS’ Narratives of Voyages along theNewEng land
cast .”
From CAPE COD , by Henry D. Thoreau.
An account of a walking-tour by America’
s greatest
nature writer.
From WHA L ING AND FISHING, by Charles
Experiences on a whaling voyage to the Indian
From VOYAGES AND TRAVEL S , by Basil Hall .A lively entertaining book with much humor and
excitement .
From TWO YEA RS BERORE THE MAST, byRichard Henry Dana.
The best account of life on shipboard in the days before steam .
From A FORTNIGHT IN FAROE , an account of a
vacat ion trip to Iceland by George WebbDasent, author of
“Norse Fairy Tales , etc.
This sketch is published in a collection of essaysentitled
“In Jest and Earnest .
From NINETY THREE , by V ictor Hugo.
(See Page
From FIGHTING A FIRE , by Chas. T. Hi ll .Incidents and perils of a fireman’
s life in a largecity.
By HjalmarHjorth Boyesen.
BOYHOOD IN NORWAY.
MODERN VIKINGS .
NORSEL AND TA L ES .
Stories of boy life and sport in the Northland.
By Frank E.Martin and George M. Haines.
FIREBRANDS .
Stories of fires showing how they start and how they can beprevented.
By J.MacDonald Oxley.
THE BOY TR AMPS.
An account.most interestingly written, of the adventures oftwo boys from Scotland on a walking tour in Canada.
By Henry D . Thoreau.
THE MA IN] : WOODS .
A quiet. leisurely account of anataralist ’s excursions in theMaine wilderness.
By Charles Nordhofi .
MAN-OP-WA R L IPE.
A boy’s experience in the U . S. Navy.THE MERCHANT V ESSEL .
A sailor boy’s voyages.
By Frank T. Bullen.
THE CRUISE OP THE CA CHA LOT.
Experiences on a South Sea Whaler. Rudyard Kiplingwrites of this book. I
’
ve never read anything that equals it inits deep sea wonder andmystery, nor do I think that any bookbefore has so completely covered the whole business of whalefishing and at the same time g iven such new and real sea
pictures.
The Steeple ClimberThe Pilot of the L achine Rapids
The Children of Blentarn GhyllThe Boy that Stood on the Burning Deck
UNCL ASSIPIED SEL ECTIONSHow the Cowboys crossed the Big Boggy
TheHarwell-Yates Game
The Champion Stone-Cutter
Punishments in Camp
When ClaraMorris first met Garfield
OUT OF DOOR BOOKS
THEIR SOURCE
From CA REERS OP DANGER AND DA RING, byClevelandMofi et't.The courage and achievements of divers, firemen,
engineers, bridge builders. and others.
From A BOOK OP GOLDEN DEEDS , by Charlotte M . Yonge.
Short stories of noble and heroic acts .
From THE LOG OP A COWBOY, by Andy
Mr. Adamswrites from experienceof life on the cattle
From THE HA L F-BACK, by Ralph Barbour.
A good storyof life at a preparatory school andduringthe first year in college.
From MY SCHOOL S AND SCHOOLMA STERS , byHugh Miller, the Scottish geologist and author.
From RECOL LECTIONS or A DRUMMER BOY, byHarry M. Kiefi er.
(See Page
FTomTHE L IPE OP A STA R , by ClaraMorris.The autobiography of this famous actress.
VOL . VII
OTHER RELATED BOOKS
By Wilfred T. Grenfell .ADR IP r ON AN ICE-PAN.
A true story of a thrilling escape from death famousmissionary and doctor of the L abrador coast.
By Andy Adams.
WEL L S BROTHERS , THE YOUNG CATTL E KINGS.
Exciting experiences in cow-punching and cattle raising toldfor boys.
By Emerson Hough .
STORY OP THE COWBOY.A vivid picture of life on the plains.
By Eleanor Gates.
THE BIOGR APHY or A PR AIRIE GIRL .
By Ralph H. Barbour.CAPTAIN OP THE CREW.
FOR THE HONOR OP THE SCHOOL .
Excellent stories of school athletics.
By Walter Camp.
THE SUBSTITUTE .
A good footbal l story by one of America’
s greatest coaches.
By Arthur Stanwood Pier.HA RDING OP ST. TIMOTHY’S.
THE NEw BOY.
THE JESTER OP ST. TIMOTHY’S.
Clean exciting stories of boarding school life.
For stories of school life in other lands, see page 67 .
OUT- OF—DOOR BOOKS
From THE BIOGR APHY OP A LOCOMOTIVE , by By HenryFrith .
THE ROMANCE OP ENGINEERING.Stories of the highway.waterway, railway. and subway.
By CyWarman.
THE STORY OP THE R AIL ROAD.
Mr.Warman’s railroad stories are great favorites with the
A simple guide to themost important stars and constella
No SteamA R unaway L ocomotive Henry Frith .
Stories of an English railroad.
Are there People in theMoon? From STARL AND by Robert H. Bal l .
A popular book on astronomy.
Suggestions For
STOR IES
By Jane Andrews.
STOR IES MOTHER NATURE TOL D HER CHIL DREN.
Stories of the coal , the coral insects, the dragon-fly and otherwonders of nature told
ByMyrtaM. Higgins.
L ITTLE GA RDENS POR BOYS AND GIRL S .
A simple practical guide to gardening . Very helpful for showing yOImg people a
wholesome and useful way to employ their spare time.
By Juliana HoratioEwing .
MARY’S MEADOW.
A delightfully told story of a family of children who lived In the country andof theun eth had gardenCY
written for young people by
THE L A Y OP THE L AND.Delightful nature essays for older readers.
By Stewart Edward White.
THE MAGIC FOREST.
Story of a small boy who spends a summer among the Indians. Excellent out-ofdoor book.
F urther R eading
By Dallas Lore Sharp.
THE FA L L OP THE YEAR .
WINTER .
THE SPRING OP THE YEA R .
Unusually interesting sketches of out-of-doorof the best of American nature writers.
OUT OF D OOR BOOKS
By Andrew Lang .
THE RED BOOK OP ANIMA L STORIES .
Splendid collections of famous stories about animals.
THE WONDERPUL A DVENTURES OP NIL S.
Howcruel Nils was Changed into an elf and borne on a gander's back to far-off landswhere he learned to be kind to his broth ers , the animals . One of the most interesting and delightfully written of all animal stories .
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OP NIIS .
By Richard Jefieries.
SIR BEVIS : A TA L E OF THE FIEL DS.
Adapted from “Wood Magic.
”
Stories of a boy’s adventures among talking animals by one of England
’
s best nature writers.
BEVIS : THE STORY OP A BOY.
A sequel to Wood Magic. Bevis is nowhalf grown up and has jolly times withhis friends the animals .
ByKenneth Grahame.
THE WIND IN THE WIL LOWS.
Quiet, whimsical stories of animals that act and talk like men .
By Ernest Thompson Seton.
BIOGRA PHY OP A GRIZZL Y.
L IVES OP THE HUNTED.WIL D ANIMA L S I HA VE KNOWN.
Popular nature books written with a keen feeling for the dramatic incidents of
By Rudyard Kipling .
13m JUNGL E BOOK .
THE SECOND JUNGL E BOOK.
Vivid, thrilling stories of the adventures of Mowgli, a man cub reared by a wolfpack in an Indian jungle . Among the
' best animal stories ever written.
By W. A . Fraser.
THE SA -ZA DA TA L ES .
Exciting stories told by animals in a menagerie of their wild life in the Indian
jungle.
VOL . VII
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE
SEVEN L ITTL E SISTERS.
EA CH AND A L L .
Simple interesting stories of child life in difl erent countries. Useful for giving theyounger children their first idea of geography .
By Alice Hegan Rice.
The story of a little American boy whose mother leaves him in Japan with
A picturesque and humorous account of travel in theWest.
INNOCENTS AB ROA D.Older boys and girls will enjoy the shrewd observations and laughable situations .
The best general books of travel foryoung people areThomasW. Knox ’
s The BoyTravelers, and Hezekiah Butterworth
’
s“Zigzag Journeys .
”
Each of these series
takes the reader to important port ions of the world. giving many of the local traditions and stories. Descriptions of child life in the different countries of the world are
found in“Our L ittle Cousins Series ” (Our L ittle Chinese Cousin,
ByH. E. Harper.
The story of a Japanese girl .By Laura E. Poullson.
L ISBETH LONGPROCK.
A charming story of a littleNorwegian girl . Translated from Hans Aanrud.
By Josephine D . Peary.
THE SNOW BA BY.
A story of Arctic exploration and life in the frozen North.
By Frederick Schwatka.
“ E CHIL DREN OP THE COL D.A delightful account of the life and pastimes of the little Eskimo boys and girls.By Fridtjof Nansen.
FARTHEST NORTH.
The story of an attempt to reach the pole.
By Bayard Taylor.
BOYS OP OTHER COUNTR IES .
Good accounts of boy life in foreign lands.
By Samuel L . Clemens. (Mark Twain.)
VOLUME VIII . ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
There havebeen heroes in plenty i n theworld’s catalogue, heroes of action, of endurance, of decision, of f ai th.
A nd the deeds of these heroes are every one a story. W'
s tell these stories , both to br ing the g reatpast into i ts due re
lation wi th the l iving p resent, and to arouse that generous admiration which i s the source of somuch insp ira
tion i n chi ldhood. The historical story g ives a sense of reali ty and humanness of past events, is a valuable aid
topatriotic training , and stirs the desi re of emulating goodness and wisdom.
”SAR A CONE BR YANT.
THE STORIES THEIR SOURCE
STORIES OP AMER ICAN EXPLORATION AND
From PIONEERS OP FR ANCE IN THE NEW
TheWh ite Champion of the Algonquins WOR LD. by Franci s Parkman.
This is the first volume of France and England in
North America,
”
Parkman’
s great history of the struggle for the possession of this continent.
TheMen who E lored the Mississippi From AMERICAN HERO STORIES, by EvaThe Pathfinders, wis and Clark March Tappan.
Stories of the brave deeds done on this continent
from the days of Columbus to the period of the CivilWar.
Bears, Indians andKit CarsonCARSON, by John S. C. Abbott.
By Francis Parkman.
THE OREGON TR AI L .
Describes the author’
s actual wanderings in 1846 with a
company of Sioux Indians, his buffalo hunting in the BlackHills and his return through the Rocky Mountains.
THE CONSPIR ACY OP PONTIA C.A pictu noand thrilling history of oneof the fiercestwarsbetween the dians andWhites.
By MaryH. Catherwood.
HEROES OP THE MIDDL E WEST.
Stories of Marquette, Joliet. L a Salle. and other Frenchexplorers.
By Francis S. Drake.
INDIAN HISTORY POR YOUNG FOLKS.
Stories of famous Indian chiefs and their wars with theWhites .
By Theodore Roosevelt.WINNING THE WEST.
A history of the exploration and settlement of the countrywest of the A lleghanies that will be enjoyed by older boys.By John S. C . Abbott.DANIEL BOONE.
DAVID CROCKETT .
Popular biographies of these famous frontiersmen and Indianfighters.
VOL . V IH
A Natural ist among A lligators
Audubon’
s Hostess
Dr. Kane to the Rescue
HEROES OP AMERICAN HISTORYTWO Scenes from the L ife of GeorgeWash
ington
Israel Putnam
THEIR SOURCE
From TR AVEL S THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTHCA ROL INA , GEORGIA , EA ST AND WEST FL OR IDA ,
THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY , THE TERR ITORIES OPTHE MUSCOGULGES , OR CREEK CONPEDER A CYAND THE COUNTRY OP THE CHACTAWS, by Wil In
h om THE L IPE OP
edited by his widow.
JAMES AUDUBON,
From ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS, by ElishaKentKane.
An account of the second Grinnell Expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin.
From AMERICAN HERO STORIES , by Eva
March Tappan .
(See page
From CA PTA INS OP INDUSTRY, by James
Short sketches of famous men written to Show that
success is obtained through perseverance, good habits,
A D VENTUR ES AND A CHIEVEMENTS
OTHER RELATED BOOKS
By Washington Irving .
THE ADV ENTURES OP CA PTAIN BONNEVIL L E, U . S. A .
m THE ROCKYMOUNTA INS AND THE FA R WEST.
d’story of perilous exploration and adventure among the
Ians .
By Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer.
BOOTS AND SA DDLES , OR L IFE INDAKOTA WITH GENER AL CUSTER .
Stories of army life describing many fights with the Indians.
By 0. 0. Howard, Major Gen. U. S. A rmy.
FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEPS I HAVE KNOWN.
Short accounts of well known warriors from Osceola to
Geronimo.
By Horace E. Scudder.
GEORGE WA SHINGTON.
The bes t biography of Washing ton for young people. Accurate, interesting and
'
Inspiring .
By James Baldwin.
FOUR GREAT AMERICANS.
Interesting accounts for younger children of the lives of
Washington, Franklin, Webster and L incoln .
By T. D . Bonner.THE L IPE AND ADVENTURES OP JAMES P. BECK
WOURTH, MOUNTA INEER , SCOUT, PIONEER AND CHIEPOP THE CROW NATION OP IND IANS.
Few men ever lived who have met with more adventuresinvolving danger to life.
”
By J . W. Schultz
WITH THE INDIANS IN THE ROCKIES .
A vivid and exciting story of the author’s boyhood expebiences among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains.
AD VENTUR ES AND A CHIEVEMENTS VOL . VIII
THE STORE S OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
Winfield Scott at the Battle of Queenstown From THE L IFE OPWINFIEL D SCOTT, by J.T. By MollyEliot Seawell .Headley.
DollyMadison and theBurning ofWashing From the MEMOIRS AND LETTERS OP DOL L Yton MA DISON.
A Story of Midshipman Farragut h orn OL D SAL AMANDER . A life of Admiral
Farragut , by P . C . Headley.
TheMobbing of Garrison From THE STORY or A NOBL E L IPE ; WIL L IAML LOYD GAR R ISON, byWill iam E. A . Axon.
HowBeecher Conquered his Audience From PATRIOTIC ADDRESSES, byHenryWard
Beecher.
PA UL JONES. (Young Heroes of OurNavy .)The story of one of the boldest men who ever sailed the seas .
DECATUR AND SOMERS . (YoungHeroes ofOurNavy .)Comradeship of two young naval heroes and their daring
exploits during the TripolitanWar.
By James Barnes.
COMMODORE BA INBRIDGE. (Young Heroes of our
Navy.)The story of a heroof the A lgerineWar and theWar of 1812.
THE HERO OP ERIE . (Young Heroes of ourNavy .)The story of Oliver Hazard Perry.
MIDSHIPMAN FAR RAGUT. (Young Heroes of OurNavy.)How the great Admiral served as midshipman on theEssex
during its famous cruise in the Pacific.
YANKEE SHIPS AND SA ILORS .
Stories of val iant deeds and st irring inci dents of theWar of
1812.
By Charles W. Moores.
THE L IPE OP ABRAHAM LmCOLN POR BOYS AND
GIR L S .
Th is excellent biography is particularly successful in showingthe unique personal ity and noble character of L incoln.
By Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge.
HEROES TA L ES PROM AMER ICAN HISTORY.
By EdwardEggleston.
STOR IES OP GREAT AMERICANS POR L ITTLE AMER
ICANS .
VOL . V IH A DVENTUR ES AND A CHIEVEMENTS
THE STORE S
HEROES OP THE OL D WORL DL ycurgusAlexander the Great
Stories from the L ifeof Julius Ce sar
Brian ofMunster, the Boy ChieftainCharles of Sweden, the Boy Conqueror
The Escape of Charles H. (1651)
The Return of Napoleon Bonaparte fromElba, and his Reception at Grenoble
The Escape of Louis Napoleon from
A QuietWalk with Stanley in Africa
The L ion and theMissionary
THEIR SOURCE OTHER REL ATED BOOKS
From OUR YOUNG FOLKS ’ PLUTA RCH, by Ro By LydiaH.Farmer.sal ie Kaufman.
(See Page
From Sir Christopher North’s translat ion of
PL UTAR CH ’
S L IV ES, adapted by W. W. Skeet.
From HISTORIC BOYS , by E. S. Brooks.
Tales of famous young heroes.
From WONDER FUL ESCA PES , revised from the
French of F. Bernard , with additional chaptersby Richard Whi teing .
Forty-four famous escapes from captivity from thedawn of history to the pres ent t ime.
From THEHISTORY OPNA POL EON BONA PA RTE ,
by John s. C . Abbott .
From THE PR ISONER OP HAM, by E. T. Briffault.
From How I FOUND L IVINGSTONE, by HenryM. Stanley.
An account of exploration in Central A frica.
From TR AV EL S AND RESEAR CHES IN SOUTHAPRICA , by David L ivingstone, the famous
missionary and explorer.
THE BOYS ’ BOOK OP FAMOUS RUL ERS .
Brief sketches of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, Robert Bruce,Peter the Great. and others.
By 1m March Tappan.
OL D WORL D HERO STORIES .
From the days of Homer toNapoleon.
By HenryM. Stanley.
THROUGH THE DA RK CONTINENT.
A thrilling story of African exploration .
By N.H. Davenport.
IN PERIL S OPT .
The lives and exploits of JosephWolff, Sir Samuel Baker,Sir James Brooks, General Gordon.and other famous heroes ofthe l 9th century.
By CharlotteM.Yonge.
A BOOK OP WORTHIEB .
Stories of David, Hector, Aristides, Ce sar, andmany others.
By P . V illar.
THE ESCA PES OP CA SANOVA AND L ATUDE PROM
PR ISON.
Their own narratives edited byP. Villar. The stories of thesecelebrated escapes are of great interest for the almost incredibledaring and ingenuity shown by the prisoners.
By Mme. EugenieFoa.
BOY L IPE OP NA POL EON, A PTERWA RDS EMPEROR OP
THE FRENCH , adapted by E. 8. Brooks.
His childhood in Corsica, his l ife as a student at a militaryacademy and as a lieutenant in the art illery. Interesting andaccurate.
A DVENTUR ES AND A CHIEVEMENTS VOL . VIII
The Petitioners for Pardon
The Heroine of the Fame Islands
FlorenceNightingale
The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A Boy Geologist and the Doocot Cave
Alexander Dumas Founds aNewspaper
My Hunt after The Captain
The Imprisonment of Adoniram Judson in
THEIR SOURCE
From A BOOK OP GOL DEN DEEDS , by Char By N. Hudson Moore.
lotte M. Yonge. DEEDS OP DA RING DONE BY GIRL S.
(See Page
From TWEL VE NOTABL E WOMEN OP THE By Sarah A . Tooley.
NINETEENTH CENTURY, by Rosa Nouchette THE L IPE OP FLORENCE NIGHTINGA L E.
Carey. An interesting biography of the famous army nurse andheroine of the Crimean ar.
From PLINY’S LETTERS , translated by AlfredJ. Church andW. J. Brodribb.
From MY SCHOOL S AND SCHOOLMASTERS , byHugh Miller.
From THE L IPE AND ADVENTURES OP A L ExANDER DUMAS.by Percy Fitzgerald. By Will iam D . Howells and Thomas Sperry.
THE L IBRA RY OP UNIVERSAL ADVENTURE RY SEA AND
L AND . STOR IES OP PERSONA L PROWESS AND PERIL IN
From PAGES PROM AN ODD VOLUME OP L IPE,
”
a“Wdfifi
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131m
deedsby OliverWendell Holmes.
uge co eetIon t e Ig t a overs o rave
d thrill'
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ts.
A miscellaneous collection of sketches and essays.
an Ing exp m
By Jacob Riis.
From THE MISSIONARY IN MANY L ANDS, by HERO TA L ES OP THE FA R NORTH .
IrwinM. House. Thrilling stories of the heroes of Scandinavia.
HISTOR IC GIR L S.
Stories of Zenobia of Palmyra. Catarina of Venice.Theresaof Avila. andWoo of Hwang-ho.
By L ydia H. Farmer.THE GIRL S
’ BOOK OP FAMOUS QUEENS.
From Semiramis , Queen of Assyria toQueen Victoria.
By Andrew Lang .
THE TRUE STORY BOOK .
THE RED TRUE STORY BOOK.
THE RED BOOK OP HEROES .
Excellent collections of hero tales and adventures.
By EdwardEverett Hale.
BOYS’ HEROES .
Hector. A lexander, King Arthur.King Richard, Israel Putnam, and others.
A DVENTUR ES AND A CHIEVEMENTS
Suggestionsf or Further R eading
STOR IES OF SEA ROVERS AND DISCOVERERSBy Edward Everett Hale.
STORIES OP DISCOVERY TOL D BY DISCOVERERS.
Th e exploits of Da Gama, Magalhaens. Drake, and others ; takenm their own
STORIES or THE SEA TOL D BY SAHORS.
The Spanish Armada, Battle of L epanto, the Buccaneera Paul Jones, Shipwrecks.
STORIES or ADVENTURE TOL D BY ADVENTUREm .
MarcoPolo, Sir JohnMandeville, Cortes. the Jesuits.and others.
By William Henry Johnson.
THE WORL D’S DISCOVERERS.
Stories of bold voyages by brave navigators during a thousand years.
THE ROMANCE OP DISCOVERY.A thousand years of exploration and the unveiling of continents.
By Joseph Jacobs.
m STORY OP GEOGRA PHICA L DISCOVERY.
Interesting accounts of ancient.medie val and modern exploration.
By Edward R . Shaw.
DISCOVERERS AND ExpLORERs.
Simple sketches for younger children.
By Edwin M . Bacon.
THE BOYS ’ HA KLUYT, ENGL ISH VOYAGES OP ADVENTURECOV ERY.
Tales of Drake.Hawkins, Cabot, andother bold captains and explorers. taken fromthe works of Hakluyt , the famous Elizabethan historian.
By CharlesW. Moores.
THE STORY OP CHR ISTOPHER COLUMBUS .
The best account of his life and voyages for younger boys and girls.
THE L IPE AND VOYAGES OP COLUMBUS.
A standard biography.
By George M. Towle.
VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES or V Asco DA GAMA .
DRAKE, THE SEA Knm OP DEVON.
SIR WA LTER R AL EIGH.
These books deal with the discovery, exploration, and conquest of theNewWorldand are full of thrilling deeds and glorious achievements .
By Agnes C. Laut.
m os OP THE PA CIPIC.
Adventures of the explorers who came from the West, eastward— Bering theoutlawhunters, the Polish pirate. Captain Cook, and others.
By Cyrus Townsend Brady.
Balboa, Pizarro, Cortes, and other noted Spanish captains . A lso the yarn of theEssex
’ Whaler, some famous American duels. John Paul Jones, etc.
blockades. etc.
ByHoward Pyle.
THE BUCCANEERS AND MA ROONERS OP AMERICA . BEING AN ACCOUNTOP THE FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND DA RING DEEDS OP CERTAINNOTORIOUSFREE-BOOTERS OP THE SPANISHMA IN.
By JohnK. Laughton.
SEA FIGHTS AND ADV ENTURES .
Buccaneers of the Spanish Main, the invasion of Ireland, famous
ByFrank R . Stockton.
BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OP OUR COASTS.
The daring exploits of Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd,booters. Stories that will satisfy any boy’s love of excitement
A D VENTUR ES AND A CHIEVEMENTS
HISTOR IES AND HISTOR ICAL STOR IESBy Jane Andrews.
TEN BOYS ON THE ROA D PROM LONG AGO To Now.
A valuable introduction to h istory. Each of the boys represents a distinct periodand their stories furnish excellent pictures of life, manners, and customs .
By EvaMarch Tappan .
LETTERS PR OM COLONIA L CHILDREN.
Shows pioneer life from the child'
s point of view in Plymouth.Quebec, Jamestown,and other American
OUR COUNTRY’S STORY.
A simple connected account of this country from its discovery to the present day.
ByNathaniel Hawthorne.
GRANDPATHER’
S CHA IR .
Our colonial history told in the form of stories.
By Charles Carleton Conin.
OL D m IN THE COLONIES.
One of the best histories of the colonial period for young people.
h m BOYS or’
76.
A good picture of Revolutionary times.
BUIL DING THE NATION.
An interesting account of the country’
s development .
ByWilliam E. Grifi s.
THE ROMANCE OP CONQUEST; OR , THE STORY OP AMER ICANPANSION THROUGH ARMS AND DIPLOMA CY.
By Agnes C. Laut.
PATHFINDERS OP THE WEST. BEING THE THRIL L ING STORY OPADVENTURES OP THE MEN WHO D ISCOVERED THE GREAT NORTHWEST;R ADISSON, L A V ERENDRYE AND L EWIS AND CL A RK.
THE CONQUEST OP THE GREAT NORTHWEST. BEING THE STORY OP THEADVENTURERS OP ENGL AND KNOWN AS THE HUDSON BA Y COMPANY.STORY OP THE TRAPPER .
A popular account of the development of the fur trade in theWest and the North
Miss Laut’
s books are intensely interesting and give a vivid picture of frontier life.
BORDER FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Stories of the pioneers and frontiersmen.
VOL . VIII
By Cyrus Townsend Brady.
COLONIA L FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS .
Stories of exploration, adventure, and battle on the American continent prior to theRevolution.
AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS .
18Stories of the first fivewars of the United States from the Revolution to theWar of2.
INDIAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS .
Warfare with the Sioux .
By John Fiske.
Clear. scholarly. and of absorbing interest . The War of Independence by thesame author contains the essence of this great work in a simpler and more concise
form. The American Revolution is one of a series of volumes by Mr. Fi ske dealingwith the history of this country from its discovery to the adoption of the Constitution .
ByW. H. Prescott.
THE CONQUEST OP MEXICO.
THE CONQUEST OP PERU.
Standard accounts of two of the most romantic adventures in the world’
s history.
ByWashington Irving .
THE CONQUEST OP GRANADA .
A vivid account of the fiery wars between the Christians and the Saracens in the
15th century.
By Charles Dickens.
CHIL D ’S HISTORY OP ENGL AND .A book that is always popular with young people.
By Sir Wal ter Scott .
TA L ES OP A GR ANDPATHER .
Th e history of Scotland in narrative form .
By V iolet Brooks Hunt.PRISONERS OP THE TOWER OP LONDON.
Being an account of some who at divers times lay captivewithin its walls.
VOLUME IX. POEMS AND RHYMES
The enjoymentwhich chi ldren receivef rom poetry i s f ar-reaching and of many kinds. Martial strainswhich
f ire the blood, f ai ry music ring ing in the ears, half-told ta les which set the young heart dreaming , brave deeds, un
happyf ates, sombre bal lads, keen joyous lyri cs, and sma l l jeweled verses where every word shines l ike a polished
gem,— all these good things chi ldren know and love. I t i s useless to of er them mere rhymes and j ing les; i t is nu
generous to stint thei r young , vigorous imag inations wi th obviousprattle,fi tted dewterously to thei r understandings.
In the matter of poetry, a chi ld’s imagination outstrips his understanding ; his emotions carry him f ar beyond the
narrow reach of his intell igence. To help a chi ld to the love of poetry is to insure f or him one source of happ iness in a not too happy world . I t i s to charm and brighten the gray routine of life, and to lift him f or some brief ,sweet moments f rom all the cares and vacations , and drudgeri es of earth up to those shining abodes Wh ere theE ternal are.
’AGNES REPPL IER .
THEIR SOURCE OTHER PAVORITE POEMS
ARRANGED A L PHA BETICAL L Y BY AUTHORSTheWants of Man From POEMS OP REL IGION AND SOCIETY, by
John Quincy Adams.
The Spacious Ermament on High From THE POETICAL WORKS OP Joseph Addison.
The Ballad of Baby Bell FromTHE Pom sorThomas BaileyAldrich . By Thomas Bailey A ldrich .
The Burial ofMoses By Mrs . CeCil Frances Alexander. (Published separately .)
Wayside Flowers mom FLOWER PIECES AND OTHER POEMS , byROBIN R EDBREA ST.
WIL D ROSE.
BLOWING BUBBL ES .
THE ABBOT OP INNISPA L L EN.
From SONGS , BA L L ADS AND STORIES, by Wil
VOL . IX
The Jolly Old Pedagogue
POEMS AND RHYMES
Tm SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From Pom , by George Arnold. By George Arnold.
SWEET SEPTEMBER .
THE OL D SCOTTISH CA VAL IER .
From h m POETICAL WORKS OP MatthewArnold.
From UNDER THE BEECH TREE, by Arlo
From h m POETICA L WORKS OP William By William Blake.
Blake. INFANT Jor .
NIGHT.
From CHR ISTMAS SONGS AND EASTER CA ROIS ,
by Phillips Brooks.
From A POCKETFUL OP POSIES, by Abbie Farwell Brown.
From THE COMPL ETE POETICAL WORKSElizabeth Barrett Browning .
From THE COMPL ETE POETICAL WORKSRobert Browning .
From THE COMPL ETE POETICA L WORKSWilliam Cullen Bryant. THE GREEN MOUNTA IN BOYS. SEL L A .
THE TWENTY-SECOND or DECEHRER .
By John Bunyan.
By Abbie Farwell Brown.
THE LOST PL ATMATE.
THE BABY L ION.
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
A PORTRAIT.
Mr DOVES .
ROMANCE or A SWAN’
S NEST.
By Robert Browning.
THE L OST L EADER .
R ABBI BEN EZRA .
A PRIL rN ENGL AND.
Flow gently , Sweet AftonAuld L ang SyneBruce to h is Men at BannockbumTO a Mouse
Honest Poverty
Waterloo
On the Loss Of the Royal GeorgeV erses Supposed tobeWritten bySelkirk
POEM S AND RHYMES
Tm SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From THE COMPL ETE POETICAL WORKS on
Robert Burns.
From CHIL DE HA ROL D’S PIL GR IMAGE, byGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron.
From IRE POETICA L WORKS OF ThomasCampbell .
From POEMS BY Alice AND Phe be Cary.
From THE POETICA L WORKSTaylor Coleridge.
From THE POETICA L WORKS WilliamCowper.
VOL . IX
By Robert Burns.
JEAN.
TO A DA ISY .
MA CPHERSON’
S FA REWEL L .
THE BANKS O’
DOON.
MY HEA RT ’
S IN THE HIGHL ANDS.
MY BONNIE MA RY.
By Lord Byron.
THE OCEAN.
THE V ISION OF BEL SHA EZA R .
THE DESTRUCTION OP SENNACHERIB.By Thomas Campbell .
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
KUB L A KHA N.
THE KNTGHT’
S TOMB .ANSWER To A CHnD
’
S QUESTION.
By Wil liam Collins.
HOW SL EEP THE BR AVE.
By Barry Cornwall (BryanWaller Proctor).THE SEA .
By Wil liam Cowper.
EPITA PH ON A HA RE.
THE COLUBR IA D.THE NIGHTINGA L E AND THE GLOW WORM.
VOL . IX
The Unknown Country
Sea Song
The Ivy Green
The Mountain and the Sq
The Forging Of the Anchor
L ittle Boy BlueWynken , Blynken andNodJapanese L ullaby
POEMS AND RHYMES
THEIR SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From POEMS , by Dinah Mulock Craik . By Dinah Mulock Craik .
AUTUMN’
S PROCESSIONA L .
HIGHL AND CATTL E.
From Pom s AND SoNGS , by A llan (hmning By A llan Cunningham.
LOYAUI‘Y.
From POEMS AND V ERSES, by Charles Dick
From POEMS , by Emily Dickinson.
ODEONST. CECIL IA ’
S
From Pom s. by Ralph WaldoEmerson.
From L AYS or THEWESTERNGAEL ANDOTHERPom s , by Samuel Ferguson.
From A L ITTL E BOOK OFWESTERN V ERSE, by By Eugene Field.
Eugene Field. THE THREE Knms.
THE ROCK-A -DY L ADY.NIGHTFA L L IN DORDRECHT.
By Emily Dickinson.
THE GRASS.
THE BEE .
CHA RTLESS.
By Michael Drayton.
THE BATTL E OF AGINCOURT.
By John Dryden.
AL Ex ANDER’
S FEAST. (FROM
By George Eliot.
SPRING SONG.
BROTHER AND SISTER .
Sleep , Baby , SleepElegy Written in a Country Churchyard
John Burns Of Gettysburg
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers inNew
The Elixir
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
The Things I MissWaiting for the Bugle
POEMS AND R HYMES VOL . IX
THEIR SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From BA L L ADS AND OTHER V am : an, by James
By RiOhard Watson Gilder.A MIDSUMMER SONG.
From the German.
From THE POETICA L WORKS or Thomas By Thomas Gray.
ON A FA VORITE CAT DROWNED IN A TUB or GOL D
By Fitz Greene Halleck .
MA RCO BOZZA RIS.
From THE COMPLETE POEMS OP Bret Harte. By Bret Harte.
FromTHE POETICA L WORKS OF Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
From THE POETICA L WORKS OF GeorgeHer
From THE POETICA L WORKS OF Robert Her
From OUTDOOR STUDIES AND POEMS,
ThomasWentworth Higginson.
DICKENS m CAMP .
By John Hay.
THE ENCHANTED SHIRT.
By Felicia DorotheaHemans.
HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS .
By George Herbert.BE USEFUL .
V IRTUE.
By Robert Herrick .
GOING A -MA YING.
THE STA R SONG .
CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS .
A GR ACE FOR A CHIL D.By ThomasWentworth Higginson.
THE SNOWING OF THE PINES .
By James Hogg .
VOL CIX POEMS AND R HYMES
THEIR SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From THE PURITANGUEST AND OTHER POEMS.by Josiah Gilbert Holland.
Wonder From THE COMPL ETE POETICA L WORKS OF By OliverWendell Holmes.
OliverWendell Holmes. GR ANDMOTHER ’
S STORY or BUNKER Hm BATTLE.
BA L L AD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PA RTY.ODE FOR WASHINGTON’
S BIRTHDA Y.
How THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET.
By Thomas Hood.
I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER .
By Lord Houghton.
L A DY MOON.
BattleHymn of theRepublic From FROM SUNSET RIDGE. POEMS OL D AND
NEW , by JuliaWard Howe.
AbouBen Adhem From THE POETICAL WORKS OF Leigh Hunt. By Leigh Hunt.To THE GR ASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET.
Two HEAVENS .
TheHighTide on the Coast of L incolnshire From POEMS , by Jcan Ingelow. By Jean Ingelow.
SEVEN TIMES Two.
My Tenants From Pom , by Helen Hunt Jackson.
From THE POETICAL WORKS or Ben Jonson. By Ben Jonson.
HYMN To DIANA .
SO SWEET IS SHE.
y John XeMORNING.
MINNOWS .
GOL DPINCHES .
SWEET PEA S.
ON THE GR ASSHOPPER AND CRICKET.
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHA PMAN’
S HOMER .
POEMS AND R HYMES VOL .
THEIR SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From POEMS. by Francis Scott Key.
From Pom s, by Charles Kingsley.
mom POEMS, by Charles Lamb.
Swinging on a Birch Tree By Lucy Larcom.
SKIPPER BEN.
From NONSENSE BOOKS , by Edward Lear.
From THE COMPLETE POETICA L WORKSHenryWadsworth Longfellow.
ant
From THE COMPL ETE WORKSThe Shepherd of King Admetus James Russell Lowell .The V ision of Sir Lannfal
Spring in NewEngland L ittleKindnessesTo the Dandelion The Heritage
By Charles Kingsley.
THE“OL D, OL D SONG.
ODE TO THE NORTH WIND.
THE LOST DOL L .
By Rudyard Kipling .
A BA L L AD OF EA ST AND WEST.
THE DOVE OF DA CIA .
By HenryWadsworth Longfellow.
TWIL IGHT.
THE CUMBERL AND.THE SKEL ETON IN A RMOR .
THE NORMAN BA RON.
THE WA RDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS.
THE DISCOVERER or THE NORTH CAPE.
THE ROPE WA L K.
THE BEL PRY OP BRUGES .
THE A RSENA L AT SPRINGFIEL D.
THE SECRET OF THE SEA .
EVANGEL INE : A TA L E OF A CA DIE.
THE SONG or HIAWATHA .
THE COURTSHIP OP MIL ES STANDISH.
y James Russell Lowell .MAHMOOD, THE IMAGE BREAKER .
AL ADDm.
POEMS AND RHYMES VOL . IX
THEIR SOURCE OTHER PAVORITR POEMS
By Gustave Nadaud.
By Caroline Elizabeth Norton.
Home, Sweet Home Written by JohnHoward Payne, to be sung THE SOL DIER PROM BINGEN.
in his play, CL AR I, THE MA ID or MIL AN. THE Knm OF DENMA RK’S R IDE.
From NEW SONGS AND BAL L ADS , by Nora By Nora Perry.
Perry. THE COMING or SPRING.Did You Speak? From POETIC STUD by Elizabeth Stuart
From SONGS or THE SHENTWORL D, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
By John Pierpont.WA RREN
’
S ADDRESS.
The Bells From THE COMPL ETE POEMS OF Edgar Allan By Edgar Al lan Poe.
THE R AVEN.
ISR APEL .
By WinthropMackworth Praed.
SIR NICHOL AS AT MAESTON Moon.
TheMilan Bird-Cages From COLONIA L BA L L ADS , SONNETS AND
OTHER V ERSE , by Margaret J11a
Domine, cui sunt Pleiades Curse From POEMS, by Charles G. D. Roberts .
By Christina G. Rossetti .
CHIL D’S TA LK IN APRIL . SUMMER DA YS .
A YEA R ’
S WINDFA L L .
A L L THINGS WAIT UPON ME.
Dinna Chide
HowCyrus L aid the Cable
Blow, Blow, thouWinterWind
Jog on, Jog on
To a SkylarkThe Cloud
POEMS AND R HYMES
THEIR SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From POEMS OP THE HOUSEHOL D, by Mar
garet Elizabeth Sangster.
From POEMS, by John Godfrey Saxe. By John Godfrey Saxe.
SOLOMON AND THE BEES.
From THE COMPL ETE POETICAL WORKS or Sir By Sir Wal ter Scott.A L L EN-A -DA L E.
From AS YOU L IKE IT.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’
S DREAM.
THE WINTER’
S TA L E.
By William Shakespeare.
From THE COMPL ETE POETICA L WORKS OF
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
From LTI'TL E FOLK L YRICS, by Frank Dempster Sherman.
COUNTY GUY.
A L ICE BR AND .PIBROCH OP DONA L D DHU.
L UL L ABY or AN INFANT CHIEP.
JOCK OF HA ZEL DEAN.
(For L ay OI the L ast Minstrel, Marmion.L ake see pageBy Will iam Shakespeare.
AR IEL’
S SONGS .
(From“The Tempest .
A SEA DIRGE.
(From“The Tempest .
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE .
(From“As You L ike It
”
)
WHEN ICICLES HANG BY THE WA L L .
(I‘h'om“Love
'
s L abor Lost .L UL L ABY FOR TITANIA .
(From Midsummer Night’
s Dream.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley.
DA YBREAK.
A DIRGE FOR THE YEAR .
To NIGHT.
By Frank Dempster Sherman.
Opportunity
My Country,
’
t is Of Thee
Bishop Hatto and his Mouse TowerThe InchcapeThe Cataract Of LodoreWhat theWinds BringThe Discoverer
While Shepherds Watched their FlocksNight
POEMS AND RHYMES
THEIR SOURCE
From THE COMPL ETE POEMS or Edward ROland Sill .
From POEMS OFHOME AND COUNTRY, by Samuel Francis Smi th .
From THE POETICA L WORKS or RobertSouthey.
From POEMS, by Edmund Clarence Sted
From A CHIL D’S GAR DEN or VERSE, by Rob
ert Louis Stevenson.
From HYMNS, by Nahum Tate.
POETICAL WORKS or Alfred,
VOL . IX
By Edmund Clarence Stedman.
GOING A -NUTTING.
THE FL IGHT OP THE BIRDS .
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
THE WIND.A V ISIT PROM THE SEA .
THE L AND or COUNTERPANE.
THE COW.
MY SHA DOW.
y Algernon Charles Swinburne.
TUDE REA L ISTE.
A CHIL D’S L AUGHTER .
A JA COBITE IN ExIL E.
VOL . IX
L ittle Billee
The Sandpiper
Autumn among the Birds
The KingfisherStory ofDarius Green and his Flying MachineFarmer JohnThe Charcoalman
Robin Hood and A llin a Dale
King John and the Abbot Of CanterburySir Patrick S ns
William of C oudesle
The Heir Of L inneThe Hunting of the Cheviot
My Times are in Thy Hand
0 Captain ! My Captain
POEMS AND R HYMES
THI IR SOURCE OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From BA L L ADS , by William Makepeace
Celia Thaxter.
From IN THE YOUNG WORL D, by Edith M .
Thomas.
From POEMS, by Maurice Thompson.
From THE COMPL ETE POETICA L WORKS By John Townsend Trowbridge.
John Townsend Trowbridge. EVENING AT THE FA RM.
MIDWINTER .
Authors unknown.
GLENLOGIE .
HYNDE HORN.
Thom HYMNS AND
LetitiaWaring .
From LEAVES OF GRASS , by WaltWhi tman.
From THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF
John Greenleaf Whitter.
Unknown.
A SPRING Lmr.
THE NORTHERN STA R .
EA R L or MAR’
S DA UGHTER .
LORD BEICHAN AND SUSAN
THE BA IL ITP’
S DA UGHTER or ISL INGTON.
By EdmundWaller.
GO, LOVEL Y ROSE.
By WaltWh itman.
Two VETERANS .
By John Greenleaf Whi ttier.INDIAN SUMMER .
MY PL A YMATE.
THE SISTERS .
BA RBA RA FR IETCHIE.
THE PIPES AT L UCKNOW.
SKIPPER IRESON’
S RIDE.
SNOW-BOUND.
POEMS AND R HYMES
OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
From THE POETICA L WORKS or William By Will iamWordsworth .
L UCY.
THE WHITE DOE or RYLSTONE.
THE PR IMROSE.
rm: POEMS THEIR SOURCE
The Burial of Sir John Moore From POEMS, by CharlesWolfe.
In March
Daflo dils
To a Child
Suggestions f or
RHYMES AND JINGLES FOR L ITTLE ‘ FOLKS
By Mary Mapes Dodge.
RHYMES AND JINGL ES.
WHEN L IFE IS YOUNG.Two books of rhymes that are very popular in the nursery.
By Mrs. Laura E. Richards.
SUNDOWN SONGS.
Twenty-eight merry Jingles .
By Emilie Poulsson.
THROUGH THE FA RMYA RD GATE.
Simple stories and rhymes about familiar animals.
CHIL D STORIES AND RHYMES.
By Ottilia Adelberg .
CL EAN PETER .
A bright nonsense tale in verse.
By Gelett Burgess.
GOOPS , AND How TO BE THEM.
MORE GOOPS , AND How NOT To BE THEM.
Popular nonsense rhymes.
By Katherine Pyle.
CA REL ESS JANE AND OTHER TA L ES .
childbr
o
e
ut Georgie L ies -Bed, Untidy Amanda. Boisterous Ann. and other naughtyII .
OR IGINAL POETRY
ByHenry Wadsworth Longfellow.
THE CHIL DREN’
S LONGPEL LOW.
Eighty of the poems that are favorites with young people.
By EugeneField.
WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM.
VOL . IX
Further R eading
Edited by John Henry Haaren.
RHYMES AND FA BL ES.
Popular nursery songs.
Edited by Andrew Lang .
NURSERY RHYME BOOK.
Mother Goose verses. old tales. proverbs, lullabies. and jingles.
Edited by Mrs. Mary W. Tileston.
SUGA R AND SPICE AND A L L THAT’
S NICE.
Favorite nursery rhymes .
Edited by Kate DouglasWiggin andNora A . Smi th .
PINA FORE PA L ACE : A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY.Edited by Isaac T. Headland.
CHINESE MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES.
Jolly songs and jingles translated from the Chinese.
VOL . IX
By James Whi tcomb Riley.
RHYMES OE CHIL DHOOD.By Christina G. Rossetti .
By Abbie Farwell Brown.
By Josephine Preston Peabody.
THE BOOK OT THE L rITLE PA ST.
By CarolynWells.
THE JINGL E BOOK.
By Lucy Larcom.
CHILDHOOD SONGS.
ANTHOLOGIES
By Kate Douglas Wiggin andNora A . Smith .
m POSY R ING.For boys and girls between the ages of seven and twelve.
By Edward Verral l Lucas.
BOOK OE VERSES FOR CHIL DREN.
ANOTHER BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHIL DREN.
By Katherine H. Shute.
1“ L AND OF SONG.(Three volumes .)
By Lucy Chisholm.
THE GOL DEN STA IRCA SE.
By Lewis Kennedy Morse.
MELODIES OF ENGL ISH V ERSE.
Poems to be memorized. Chosen and grouped according to sound and rhythm.
By F. T. Palgrave.
CHIL DREN’S TREASURY OT POETRY AND SONG.By Jeanette L . Gilder.
L THE HEART or YOUTH.
POEMS AND RHYMES
Compiled by Clarence Forsythe.
OLD SONGS FOB YOUNG AMERICA .
Bobby Shafto.Old Dan Tucker. London Bridge. etc.
SINGING V ERSES EOE CHIL DREN.
Songs about the babymoon, the little stars. thepussywillows.etc.
ey.
By Kate Douglas Wiggin andNora A . Smith .
GOL DEN NUMRERS .
For young people between the ages of twelve and seventeen.
By Agnes Repplier.
A L ITTLE BOOK or FAMOUS VERSE.
By Andrew Lang .
THE BLUE POETRY Boox .
ByHenry Cabot Lodge.
BA L L ADS AND L YR ICS .
ByMary W. Tileston.
HEROIC BA L L ADS .
SONGS SET TO MUSICBy Emilie Poulsson.
FATHER AND BABY PL AYS .
Songs for parents to sing while playing and romping with little folks.
FINGER PL AYS EOE NURSERY AND KINDERGA RTEN.
haKeg-see andmusic for all sorts of games andmake-believes tobe playedwith
By W. H. Neidlinger.
SMA L L SONGS FOR SMA L L CHILDREN.
Clever rhymes set to good music.
By Myrtle R eed and Eva C .Hart.PICKABA CK SONGS .
Nursery rhymes set tomusic.
By J. W. Eliot.
POEMS AND RHYMES
SONGS OF CHIL DHOOD . Edited byHenry R . Bramley.
Eugene Field’
s poem set tomusic by Reginald de Koven and others.
THE STEVENSON SONG BOOK. Compiled by CharlesH. Levermore.
THE ACADEMY SONG BOOK.
Contains the best of the folk songs, patriotic selections. favorite tunes. school andcollege songs. hymns. etc. of all countries.
Two L ittle R unaways
The Prince’
s V isit
The Queen of the Pirate Isle
A Dog Of Flanders
STORIES or ADVENTUREJackanapes
WeeWillieWinkie
MODERN STOR IES
THEIR SOURCE
From TIMOTHY’S QUES T, by Kate Douglas
A story of two littlewaifs and their search for a home.
d
From DREAMCHIL DREN, byHoraceE. Scud
er.
(See page 17)
From STORIm OF AND FOR THE YOUNG, by Bret
Contains besides this, A Mother of Five,” “Sarah
Walker and Johnnyboy. These four stories are
usually included in the volume entitled“Bohemian
Papers.
”
From A DOG OFFL ANDERS ANDOTHER STORIES,by Louise de la Ramée.
Contains also the “Numberg Stove,” “In the Apple
Country, ” “The L ittle Earl.
”
By JulianaHoratiaEwing. (Published separately.)The story of a brave English soldier lad.
From UNDER THE DEODA RS, by Rudyard
Mr Kipling has written three other good stories
about children —“Baa. Baa. Black Sheep, ” “His
fil
iajesty the King, and
“The Drums Of the Fore and
VOL . X
By Kate Douglas Wiggin.
REHECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FA RM.
One of the best stories of American girlhood ever written.
Rebecca is a fascinating girlwho does all sorts of lively thingswhile living with her aunts and at a boarding school.
THE NEW CHRONICL ES or REHECCA .
More stories of“ just the nicest girl in American literature.
THE BIRDS’ CHRISTMA S CA ROL .
How the nine little Rugg leses went to a Christmas dinnerparty. A delightful story of mingled fun and pathOSJ,
By MaryMapes Dodge.
HANS BRINKER , OR THE SIL VER SKATES.
A famous story of child life in Holland.
By JulianaHoratia Ewing .
LOB-L IE-HY-THE-FIRE, THE BROWNIES AND OTHER
Contains the best of Mrs. Ewing’
s stories for children. I
STORY OF A SHORT L IFE.
Story of a boy who learned patience and courage throughsuffering .
By Rudyard Kipling .
PUCK OF POOK’S HIL L .
REWA RDS AND FA IRIES.
TWO volumes of capital stories of heroism and adventure.
A series of vivid pictures of Eng land at various periods of her
A bo’
s adventures in India. Gives awonderful picture ofHindu e.
The A rchery Contest
A Descent into theMaelstrom
A Race for L ife
Mahala Joe
WONDER STORIESKing of the Golden R iver
R ip V anWinkle
Alice and the Two Queens
MODERN STOR IES
THEIR SOURCE
From IVANHOE, by SirWal ter Scott.A novel every boy should read.
(See page
From TA L ES OF THE GROTESOUE AND
Bmt , by Edgar Allen P00. (18th century.) Perhaps the greatest of all Scott ’s novels.
Meg Merrilies, Dominic Sampson and Dandy Dinmont arecharacters everyone should know.
From THE L AST or THEMomCANS, by James By James Fenimore Cooper.Fenimore Cooper. THE DEERSL AYEE.
Cooper’s best novel . THE PATHFINDER .
THE PIONEERS.
THE PR AIR IE.
From Tim BA SKETWOMAN, by M" ? Austin.
These, with the Last of the Mohicans, make up theStories of the Indians of Southern California. princi L eatherStock ing Series . They deal with the“ ant e between
P5“? f01k tales. (See page 16) theWhites and Indians in the 18th century andare full of exciting adventures and hairbreadth escapes.
THE KING OF THE GOL DEN R IVER ; OR , THE
BL A CK BROTHERS. A LEGEND 01, Su n“ , byJohn 18
For
d
o
l
t
ger modern fairy tales andwonder stones, see pages
Ruskin. (Published separately .)an
From THE SKETCH BOOK, by Washington
A collection of stories, essays, etc. , which also con
tains the Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
”
a children’
s
favorite. Both of these stories are published separately.
From A L ICE IN WONDERL AND , by CharlesLutwidge Dodgson. (L ewis Carroll .)(See page 18
QUEN'Tm DURWA RD.
HOW the hero, a young Scotchman. seeks his fortune in theservice of Louis XI Of France (15th century.) One of themostexcit ing of Scott
’
s novels.
THE PIRATE .
A Story of the Orkney Islands.
ROB ROY.
A story of Scotland in the 18th century, ending in the collapse of the Jacobite rebellion.
UNCL ASSIFIED STOR ImThe Peterkins arc Obliged toMove
The Great Stone Face
Farmer Finch
Miss Beulah’
s Bonnet
The Cratchits’ Christmas Dinner
TheMan without a Country
MODER N STOR IES
THEIR SOURCE
From THE PETERKINPA PERS , by Lucretia P.
Hale.
Twenty-two laughable adventures that the Peterkinfamily meet with in an endeavor to become wise.
From THE ZSNOW IMA GE, by NathanielHawthorne.
From A WHITE HERONANDOTHER STORIES , bySarah Orne Jswett.
Satories of country life that will be enjoyed by older
grr
From SOMEBODY’SNEIGHBORS , by RoseTerryCooke.
Stories of country life in NewEngland.
From A CHR ISTMA S CA ROL , by CharlesDickens .
Usually included in Christmas Books, which con
tains besides this, “The Chimes,” “The Cricket on the
Hearth,”
and the Battle of L ife.
THE MANWITHOUT A COUNTRY, by EdwardEverett Hale. (Published separately .)
“The Story of Philip Nolan was written in the dark
estpart of theCivil War, to showwhat love of country“0
VOL . X
By Lucretia P . Hale.
THE L A ST OF THE PETERKINS.
The further adventures of this astonishing family .
By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
TWICE TOL D TA LES.
Young people enjoy the semi-historical storiesof the Province House, Endicott and the Red Cross,Gray Champion.
By Sarah Orne Jewett.DEEPHAVEN.
TA L ES OF NEW ENGL AND.THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS.
Quiet tales of rural NewEngland life by onebest Short story writers.
America’
s
By Charles Dickens.
A TA L E or TWO CITIES.
The two cities are London and Paris during the FrenchRevolution. A vivid picture is given of the Reign of Terror.
DA VID COPPEBFIEL D.
Dickens’
s greatest novel. It is largely founded on his early
The laughable adventures of the Pickwick Club in theirtravels through England. One of themost entertaining storiesever written.
THE ADVENTURES or OL IVER TWIST.
HowOliver ran away from the workhouse and his adventures in the London slums.
THE OL D CUR IOSITY SHOP .
A story rich in pathos and in comedy. The touching figureof L ittle Nell is one Of the best known in literature.
VOL . X MODERN STOR IES
Suggestionsf or Further R eading
STORIES FOR LITTLE FOLKSBy Beatrix Potter.THE TA L E or PETER R ABBIT.
THE TA L E or MRS. TIGGY-WmKLE.
THE TAL E or SQUIR REL NUTKIN.
THE TA L E or BENJAMIN BUNNY.Amusin little animal stories with delightful illustrations in color. Great favorites
with very '
ttle folks .
By Laura E. Richards.
An entertaining collect ion of short stories and merry rhymes. Very popular with
A story of a little girl and an Old lighthouse keeper.
By Sarah Orne Jewett.PL AY DAYS.
Simple and charmingly told stories for little girls .
By E. Boyd Smith .
THE FA RM BOOK .
THE SEASHORE BOOK.
Picture books that instruct as well as please. The first shows Bob and BettUncle John’
s farm and explains b text and bflsdelightful colored illustrat ions al the
interesting features of farm life e second te of their summer at the seashore anddescribes fishing.whaling , ship-building , etcBy Abbie Farwell Brown.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS .
FRIENDS AND COUSINS.
fridgpopular stories telling of the adventures of Kenneth and Rose and their
en
By Sara Cone Bryant.THE BmT STORIES TO TEL L TO CHIL DREN.
A selection Of favorite stories fromMiss B’
fiant 8 two popular collections , How to
TellSatories toChildren ’
and“Stories toT toChildren.
’
A ttractiveLv illustratedin co r
STORIES FOR GIRLSBy Frances Hodgson Burnett.e rL E LORD FAUNTL EROY.The story of a lovable little American boy whobecomesanEnglish lord and of how
he makes friends in his newhome.
By Johanna Spy'
ri .
HEIDI.A delightful story of a little Swiss girl who lived in a hut in the Alps.
By Mrs. HumphryWard.
MIL L Y AND OL L Y ; OR , A HOL IDAY AMONG THE MOUNTAmS .
Howa little boy and girl spent a summer in the Lake country of England.
By George Madden Martin.
EMMY LOU, HER BOOK AND HEA RT.
The story Of a very real and delightful girl carried to her grown-up time.By Clara Louise Burnham.
JEWEL .
Jewel is a charming girl, bright and lovable, whowins her way with her austereuncle through Christian Science.
By Sarah Orne Jewett.BEI'TY LEICESTER .
Howwide-awake Betty spent a summer in the country and the goodtimes she had.
BETTY LEICESTER ’
S CHR ISTMAS .
HowBetty spent a long-to-be-remembered Christmas at Banesly Castle.
By Laura E. Richards.
QUICKSIL VER SUE.
A story Of a bright . lively girl .THE HILDEGA RDE SER IES .
Five popular books for girls.
By EmmaC. Dowd.
POL L Y OF THE HOSPITAL STAFF.Howquaint, cheerful Polly meetswith an accident and is taken to thehospital, and
of the merry times she has there with the other children and the nurses.
MOD ERN STOR IES
By MaryMapes Dodge.
DONA L D AND DOROTHY.
A story of a jolly boy and g irl about whom there is an interesting mystery.
By Harri et Prescott Spofiord.
THE CHIL DREN or THE VA L L EY.
The adventures of a family of children who lived by a great forest.By Mrs. A . D . T. Wh itney.
FA ITH GA RTNEY’
S GIRLHOOD.A quiet story of life in NewEngland. The best of Mrs.Whitney’s books forBy Frances Hodgson Burnett.
A charming story for girls toldwith all ofMrs. Burnett’
s grace and sweetness.
By Imogen Clark .
WIL L SHAKESPEARE’
S L ITTLE L AD.
A story of Shakespeare’
s time in which the hero is the dramatist’
s small son.
By Gabrielle E. Jackson.
PRETTY POL L Y PERKINS .
A delightful story, ful l of such incidents and adventures as normal girls like to readabout and are very likely to experience.
ANNEKE : A M DA I or NEW NETHERL ANDS.
A historical story of NewNetherlands in the seventeenth century.
By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
GYPSY BREYNTON.
Impulsive, warm hearted Gypsy is agreat favoritewith girls. Her story iscontinuedthrough several volumes .
SEA STOR IESBy Norman Duncan.
THE ADVENTURES or BIL L Y TOPSA IL .
Billy is the son of aNewfoundland fisherman, and the story of his adventures is fullof vivid pictures Of sailor life.
THE YOUNG ICE WHA LERS.
Two lads, lmt inanAmfic icepach live for twoyear-s in theFarNorth andmeetwith
many adventures
CA PTA INS COUR AGEOUS.
L ife aboard aGlouwster fishing schooneron theNewfoundland Banks. One of thebest books for boys ever written .
By James B. Connolly.
OUT or GLOUCESTER .
Capital stories of life in the fishing fleet . Full of humor and excitement.By Jules V erne.
TWENTY THOUSAND L EAGUES UNDER THE SEA .
The story of a wonderful submarine boat and its strange owner.By Captain Frederic Marryat.
MR. MIDSHIPMAN EA SY.
A famous story of man-oi-war life during the NapoleonicWars. Interesting andhumorous.
By James Fenimore Cooper.THE PILOT.
A story of John Paul Jones and his expedition to the English coast.By Robert Louis Stevenson.
TREA SURE ISL AND .
The best of all pirate stories.
By Charles Kingsley.
The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, in the days of goodQueenBess. A splendid story of the Spanish Main.
By Frank R . Stockton.
THE ADVENTURES OF CA PTA IN HORN.
A story of shipwreck, outlaws, and treasure trove.
By Howard Pyle.
THE STORY or JACK BA L L ISTER ’S FORTUNES.
Howhewaskidnapped, fell intothe handsof Blackbeard, the famous pirate, campedfrom the pirates, and rescued a young lady from their hands .
By William Clark Russell .THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR .
How the crewmutinied and the ship was lost while trying tomake the Bermudas.A good novel by one of the best modern writers of sea stones.
VOL . X
WAR STOR IES
By Mary P. Wells Smith .
BOYS OF THE BORDER .
An exciting story of Indian warfare. This is the third volume of the Old DeerfieldSeries which, with the Young Puritan Series by the same author. te lls in story formthe history of Western Massachusetts from King Philip’sWar to the Revolution .
By Everett T. Tomlinson.
THE CAMPFIR EB or MAD ANTHONY.THE RED CHIEF.
9 THE R IDERS or THE BL ACK HORSE.
Exciting stories of the Revolutionary War. Dr. Tomlinson has written for boysmany other excellent stories of the Revolution and theWar of 1812.
By John Preston True.
SCOUTING FOR L IGHT HORSE HA R RY.
One of a series deal ing with the Revolution. Battle pictures and stirring deeds.
By Thomas Nelson PageTwo L ITTL E CONFEDERATES .
The story Of two boys on a plantation during the war and of their adventures withConfederate and Union soldiers.
By Captain Charles King .
CADET DA YS .
A story of West Point .TROOPER ROSS and SIGNA L BUTTE .
Two stories Of Indian warfare.
By James Fenimore Cooper.SPY .
A story Of the Revolution.
By Howard Pyle.
MEN or IRON.
The doughtydeeds Of Myles Falworth in the reign of Henry IV of England.
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
THE BL ACK AR ROW.
A story of the English War of the Roses.
MODERN STOR IES
By V ictor Hugo.
NINETY THREE .
A story of the uprising of the peasants of Vendee in 1793. A thrilling and trag icnovel by one of the greatest of French novelists. (See page
STOR IES OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE
By A . Conan Doyle.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERIOCK HOLMES .
ContainsThe Fi veOrange Pips,The Red Headed l eague. and other haming casessolved by the famous detective.
THE SIGN OF FOUR .
A strange tsle of tbe great Agr-a treasure.
By Wilk ie Collins.
The thrilling and curious adventures occasioned by a diamond of fabulous worth
By Charles Lever.CHA RL ES O’MAL LEY.The adventures of an Irish dragoon under Lord Wellington, in the PeninsulaCampaign and at Waterloo. A rattling story of droll incidents and daring exploits.
By A . Conan Doyle.
MICAH CL ARKE.
A historical novel dealing with the Monmouth rebellion. (England 17th century.)
THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGA DIER GERARD.Stories of thrilling adventures told by an Ofi cer in Napoleon’
s army.
By Henry Sienkiewicz.
WITH FIRE AND SWORD.
THE DELUGE.
PAN MI CHAEL .
These connected novels deal with the history of Poland from 1647 to 1751. Full ofexciting episodes and splendidly vivid battle scenes.
IN DESERT AND WIL DERNESS .
80
8
323of the kidnapping of twochildren in 1885 during theMahdist rebellion in the
u
74 MODER N
By R ichard Harding Davis.
Th e mysterious events that occurred in London on the night of a great fog .
By Jules V erne.
The exciting adventures of a courier of the Czar.
A ROUND THE WORL D IN EIGHTY DA YS .
AnEnglishman’
s wager and the thrilling adventures he encountered In his attempttowin it .
By Stanley J. Weyman.
A GENTL EMAN or FR ANCE. BEING THEMEMOIRS OF GASTONDE BONNE,SIEUR DE MA RSAC.An exciting and romantic story of a soldier of fortune In the days of King Henry ofNavarre.
By Charles Reade.
THE CL OISTER AND THE HEA RTH.
A romance of the middle ages full of rapid adventure and vivid pictures ofmedie val life.
By Alexander Dumas .
THE THREE MUSKETEERS .
The exploits of threeguardsmen and their companion D ’
Artagnan . The scene islaid In France In the ear 17th century and Cardinal R ichelieu and Anne of Austriafigure prominently. One Of the most exciting novels ever written .
L TWENTY YEA RS AFTER .
A sequel toThe Three Musketeers and nearly as thrilling .
THE V ICOMTE DE BRAGEIONNE .
The closing scenes of the life Of the four guardsmen. L ouis XIV and his court
appear. R . L . Stevenson has called this the greatest of all romantic novels .
The COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.
A story of fabulous treasure and deadly vengeance that sweeps the reader along Inbreathless interest.By Edmond Rostand.
CYR ANO DE BERGERAC. (A drama.)The hero
'
Is a swashbuckling poet and soldier and the story of his reckless quarrelsand hopeless love afiairmakes one of the greatest Of all modern romantic plays.
STOR IES VOL . X
By A . Conan Doyle.
THE REPUGEES : A TA L E OF Two CONTINENTS.
The sccne of the first half is in Paris at thc time of LouiaXIV , the h l t part in theCanadian wilderness, with exciting adventures among the Indiana.
By Anthony Hope.
“ E PRISONER OF ZENDA .
A dashing ta lc of a brave young Eng lishman and a fair Prim
By S.Weir Mitchell .HUGH WYNNE , FREE QUAKER .
A story of the American Revolution.
By Richard D . Blackmore.
LORNA DOONE.
An exciting story of the outlawDoones and the love aflair of themighty JohnHiddwith the beautiful Lorna .
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
KIDNA PPED. BEING THE MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES or DA V ID BALFOUR IN THE YEA R 1751.
How he was kidnapped and cast awa on a desert isle, his Journey in theHighlands and acquaintance with A lan reek and other notorious Jacobi
DA VID BA L FOUR .
A sequel to Kidnapped.
By Gilbert Parker.
THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY.A historical romance dealing with the struggle between France and England ft:
the possession OfBy Winston Churchi ll .R ICHA RD CA RVEL .
A historical novel Of the time of the American Revolution. Brilliant adventures andvivid pictures of life in America and London.
THE CROSSING.A story of the westward movement . General Jackson.
ofGeorge Rogers Clark, and
other famous characters appear. Full of st irring scenes of herourn and adventure.
MODERN
By James M . Barrie.
A romantic story of the minister of Thrums and the gypsy maiden of Caddam
Wood.
By L udovicHalevy.
ABBE CONSTANTIN.
The romance Of an American heiress and a French sub-lieutenant.
By Elizabeth C. Gaskell .
CRANFORD.Quiet, charming sketches Of life In a small English town.
By Jane Austen.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
The story of a haughty loverand high spiritedheroine. A famousEng lish novel that
is still enjoyed by many older girls.
By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
THE HOUSE or THE SEVEN GABLES.
STOR IES
By William M . Thackeray.
One of the world’
s greatest novels. A wonderful picture of 18th century England.
THE V IRGINIANS .
A sequel toHenry Esm0nd. The sam e is laid In America and England. Washington Is one of the characters.
By George Eliot.
A story of Florence In the loth century.
SIL AS MA RNER .
Great in its portrayal of the develop
By V ictor Hugo.
L ES MISERABLES .
Hugous greatest novel story is too complex and full of digressions formost yout
zg‘people but an abridgment has been published under the title Jeant contains the absorbing story of the principal character
BOOKS FOR PA RENTS
So, in the matter of l i teraturef or the young , the infl uence of thehome teaching is enormous. A ll the school can
dopales bef ore it. L et the mother add to thepoetic rhyme the musi c of her sof t and beloved voice, let greatfi ction beread to the breathless group of cur ly
-heads about thefi re, and the wonders of science be unrolled, the thri lling scenes
and splendidpersonali ties of hi story displayed. Chi ldren thus inspi red may be trusted to become sens i tive to li terature long bef ore they knowwhat the word means or have reasoned at al l upon their menta l experiences .
”
R ICHARD BURTON.
By Gabrielle E. Jackson.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER .
A practical , sympathetic discussion of the relations of a girl to her mother frombirth towomanhood.
By Paul Carus.
OUR CHIL DREN.
Hints from practical experience for parents and teachers. Discusses square dealing,the use of money, education. the love of truth. etc.
By Elizabeth Harrison.
A STUDY or CHIL D NATURE.
libhelpful book on the method of child training . Emphasizes kindness and sym
pa Y
By Annie Winsor Allen.
Hon , SCHOOL AND VACATION.
A st imulating book full of practical suggestions . There are chapters on home teaching in babyhood, good reading , discipline. amusement, health. etc .
By Kate Douglas Wiggin andNora A . Smi th .
CHrL DRnN’
s RrOH'rs .
A ong the s b'
ects discussed children’
la d lsythm'
.what shall ourchfldl n m d g
l
ogerning our children.
s p ys an p 33
By Mil licent W. Shinn .
THE BIOGRAPHY or A BABY.
Many mothers will enjoy reading this minute chronicle of the first twelve monthsof a baby’s life.
By Josephine Dodge Daskam.
MEMOIRS or A BABY.
A jolly story of two young parents and a very theoretical aunt.By Will iam A . McKeever.
FA RM Bore AND GIR L S .
Treats of juvenile literature in the farmhouse, the rural church and youngple, the rural school, work and training for country boys and girls, and other sub
jects of interest to those who live in the country.By Lyman Abbott .THE HOME BUIL DER .
A tribute to an ideal woman, telling of her life from girlhood to old age. Containssuggestive chapters on The Wife, The Mother, etc.
By Luther Burbank .
THE TRA rNINO or THE HUMAN PLANT.
A stimulating talk on child training by the most famous of modern horticulturists.By Ernest H. Abbott.ON THE TRAINING or PARENTS.
A plea for a more sympathetic relation between parents and children. The authorpoints out that much of the trouble in child training is caused by the inability ofparents to enter into the child ’s point of view.
By Susan Chenery.
As THE w o Is BENT.
h eats of the first seven years of the ch ild’s life and deals principally with the cultivation of character and the teachingo f truthfulnes s, obed ience, honor, etc. Writtenin an easy, interesting style, for the most part in the form of conversations.
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
By J. N. L amed.
A PRmER or R IGHT AND WRONG .
Discusses m a simple pract icalway such subjects as self-control and the formationof habit, integrity, right and wrong in business and m citizenship, and other similar
By Ella Lyman Cabot.ETHIcs FOR CHI L DREN.
A book for teachers that parents , too, will find of value. It contains talks on helpfulness, courage, truthfulness, and other virtues, together with carefully selectedstories and poems that enforce the lessons.
By Sara Cone Bryant.
A standard book on the important art of story-telling . Miss Bryant discusses thepurposes of story-telling , what stories to tell. how to ads t stories and how to tell
stories, beside giving thirty-two stories particularly suitab e for telling to children.
By Nora A . Smith .
A simple practical adaptation of kindergarten principles to the child’s home life.
By MargaretW. Morley.
A SONG or L IFE .
Simple instructions in sex and parenthood through lessons drawn from nature.
Written with unusual delicacy and fineness of f
L IFE AND L OVE.
Similar to A Song of L ife, but for older children.
WE AND OUR CHIL DREN.
A breezy, entertainingly wri tten book. full of ractical suggestions for the ratsmg'
ofsound. healthy children .
p
ExERCIsE AND HEAL TH.
A sensible talk on the why and howof exercise.
By Florence Hull Winterburn.
THE CHIL DREN’
s HEAL TH.
A book on how to keep children in good health. Intermfing ly written and full of
By Nathan Oppenheim.
THE CA RE on THE CHIL D IN HEALTH.
M directions for properly feeding , clothing , teaching good physical habits, etc.
Scientific but simply to]By L . Emmett Holt, M .D .
THE CA RE AND FEEDING or CHILDREN.
A standard book by one of the greatest living authorities on the subject. Writtenin simfl e language for the use of mothers and nurses.
By Emelyn L . Coolidge, M .D .
THE MOTHER ’
s MANUAL .
A practical handbook on the care of children for the first seven ya rs of their life.
By Myer Sol is-Cohen,M .D .
THE FAMIL Y HEALTH.
A valuable book on domestic hygiene and the proper care of the body .
NOTEWORTHY CHARACTERS AND EVENTS
REFERRED TO IN THE CHIL DREN’
S HOUR
ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (Vol . 7, p . 211 ; Vol. 8, p.
King and conqueror. Born 356 B .C . Son of Philip the Second OfMacedon, at that time the most powerful kingdom of Greece. Aristotle, the celebrated philosopher, was his tutor. On the assassinationof his father Alexander, a youth of twenty, ascended the throne,speedily overthrew the rival claimants , punished rebellious tribes
in-chief of the expedition then in preparation against their ancientenemy, Persia.
He first subjugated , in a single campaign, the Wild tribes Of theThracians that dwelt beyond his northern frontier, destroyed rebellious Thebes, one of the proudest cities of Greece, and having thussecured his position at home, crossed toAsia with an army ofmen. Asia Minor was rapidly conquered, Darius, the Persian king,completely defeated at Issus, the famous city ofTyre captured aftera siege of sevenmonths , and Syriaoccupied. Proceeding toEgypt, hefounded Alexandria, whichwas destined to become one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, received the submission of a largepart of Northern Africa, and, having thus subdued all the countriesbehind him , struck boldly into the heart of the mighty Persianempire.In the mean time, Darius had collected an immensearmy number
ing over a million men with which he lay encamped on the plains ofArbela. Here on the first day of October in the year 331 B .C . was
fought one of the greatest battles in the world’
s history. The Macedonians , far outnumbered, were for a time hard pressed, but at thecritical moment Alexander, seeing aweak point in the Persian centre,
launched a flying wedge of his choicest troops against it with suchirresistible force as to split the Persian army in two and drive it fromthe field inwild disorder . Pressing on, he captured the cities of Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis, securing the fabulous riches that had beenheaped up by the Persian kings treasures so enormous that, it issaid, ten thousand wagons and five thousand camels were necessaryto bear away those of Persepolis alone.Having rested his troops, he set out in pursuit of Darius , who had
fled northward. After a long and exciting chase, Alexander, marchingday and night , came in sight of the broken bodyguard that still clungto the Great King. Followed by the handful of soldiers who had survived the terrible pursuit, he flung himself at the enemy but wascheated of his prey at the last moment by the Persian nobles who,rather than sufler their king to be made captive, transfixed him withtheir spears, and leaving the royal corpse for Alexander, fled to the
The immense territory to the north and east including what isnowA fghanistan and Baluchistanwas next subjugated by Alexanderand a city founded in the Pass of the Tian-shan Mountains tomarkthe limit of his empire in that direction. Determined to carry hisconquest to the endof the world , he then turned toward India, skirtedtheHimalayas, subduing the fierce tribes of hill-men, and crossed theIndus R iver into the fertile plains of the Punjab . Here he met anddefeated Porus, the Indian King, whose army included two hundredwar elephants . Continuing his march , he proceeded eastward acrossIndia until his soldiers, weary at last of conquest, refused to gofarther. R eluctantly turning southward, he followed the Indus
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R iver to the Indian Ocean, dispatched a fleet to explore the newworldhe had gained, and at length set out on his homeward journey reaching Persiawith the remnant of his forces after an absence of five years.
Having received the embassies that had come from all parts of theworld to do him homage and checked the abuses that had grown up
in the empire during his absence, he set to work on a far-reachingplan for the conquest of Arabia and the building up of a great seatrade with India and Egypt. In the midst of these preparations , hewas suddenly seized with a fever, and having bade farewell to his oldsoldiers, who passed one by one through his chamber, he died in thethirty-third year of his life and the thirteenth of his reign (323 H Q ).
The empire that he left was too vast to be ruled by any but himselfand within a generation of his death it crumbled to pieces.
Alexander the Great is perhaps the most remarkable figure in history. He stands preeminent among men of action for the romanticsplendor with which be invested his life, and among the dreamers forthem a y and practical ability that enabled him to make his dreamscome true. As aman , hewas warm-hearted and chivalrous , a lover of
good conversation , and fond of surrounding himself with learned men.
His physical strength and personal courage were unusual , and thedevotion that be inspired among his soldiers was largely due to hisreadiness to share their hardships and lead them in person wheneverdanger was greatest . A s a soldier and statesman Alexander standswith Ce sar and Napoleon . He led his army through miles Ofstrange and hostile country, subdued the most powerful nations ,winning every battle that he fought, and in eleven years completedthe conquest of almost the entire world then known . His conquestsleft traces that endured for centuries , his campaigns served as modelsfor future military operations and the splendor of his achievementsawed the most remote and barbarous nations Of Europe and Asia.
See Alexander the Great,” by Benjamin I.Wheeler. (Heroes of
the Nations Series.)
KING ARTHUR . (Vol . 4, p .
A semi-legendary British chief. It is probable that he lived inthe fifth or sixth century , distinguished himself by his successfulbattles against theSaxon invaders, was betrayed by his wife, andmethis death in a conflict with a near kinsman . In the course of centurieshe grew into a great hero andmany popular legends arose concerninghim and the other heroes that had been grouped about him . Thecourtly poets of France and Germany put these legends into verse,making of the rude chieftain an ideal knight of the Middle Ages,chivalrous , generous, and without fear. They reflect, therefore, thelife and ideas Of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries rather than ofthe time in which King Arthur is supposed to have lived. Theselegends have inspired important works bymodern poets , composers,and artists , notably Tennyson
’
s Idylls Of the King,” Wagner’s
Parsifal , and Edwin Abbey’s well known paintings Of the Questof the Holy Grail in the Boston Public Library . Ourmodern versionsare derived from the Morte d’
Arthur, a collection of the storiesmade by Thomas Malory in the fifteenth century .
BATTLE OF THE BALTIC . (Vol . 9 , p .
A famous sea fight between the British under Sir Hyde Parker andLord Nelson , and the Danish fleet defending Copenhagen , in whichthe latter was almost completely destroyed . The action took placein 1804 andwas an incident in the great struggle between the Englishand Napoleon .
BATTL E OF BLENHEIM . (Vol . 6, p .
Fought in 1704 between the combined armies of England, Germany , Holland , andDenmark under the Duke of Marlborough and
Prince Eugene, and the arm ies of France and Bavaria, in theWar Of
the Spanish Succession . The total defeat infl icted upon the Frenchwas a disastrous blow to the ambition and prestige of Louis XIV, whowas then at the height of his power.
See Creasy’
s“Fifteen Decisive Battles .
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BRIAN OF MUNSTER . (Vol . 8, p .
A famous Irish Chieftain. He became King of Cashel in 987 A .D.
and fourteen years laterwas acknowledged the chiefKing of Ireland.
He is said to have defeated the Danish invaders in twenty-fivepitched battles , in the last of which he was killed He is thegreat hero of Ireland but so many legends have grown up aroundhim that it is difi cult to form an accurate idea of the real warrior
ROBERT BRUCE. (Vol . 9, p .
Liberator of Scotland and King of that country for twenty-threeyears. Born 1274, son of the Earl of Carrick and distant heir to thethrone of Scotland then held byEdward I , King of England. In earlylife be favored the English and swore fealty to Edward. He maintained his friendship with England until 1306 when he slew an Old
rival and enemy, Red Comyn , and proclaimed himself King of Scotland His first Operations against the Eng lish and their Scottishallies were unsuccessful and he was compelled to seek refuge on thecoast of Ireland. Soon after he returned to the mainland and in twoyears he wrested nearly all of Scotland from the English . In the
famous battle of Bannockbum he inflicted a disastrous defeat onEngland, and in 1328 was recognized by that country as King ofScotland. On his death the following year, his heart was embalmedand delivered to Sir James Douglas to be buried in Jerusalem , but
Douglaswas killed fighting the Saracens in Spain and the sacred relicwas brought back to Scotland and interred in the monastery ofMelrose.See Robert the Bruce and the Strugg le for Scottish Independ
ence,” by Sir Herbert E.Maxwell . (Heroes of the Nations Series).
JULIUS CESAR . (Vol. 8, p .
Soldier, statesman , and writer. Born of a noble Roman family inthe year 100 B .C. During his early life Rome was convulsed by a
Roman army . As the government at Rome was steadily growingweaker, he then returned to Northern Italy in order to be at hand toseize whatever opportunity fate might ofl
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er in the period of turmoilthat appeared to be approaching . Here he unexpectedly receivednews that all Gaul had risen in a mighty rebellion headed by theyoung chief , Vercingetorix. Leaving his enemies to succeed in Rome,be instantly set out for his province. It was the dead of winter. Hisarmy was scattered far and wide in winter quarters. For a time itlooked as if the revolt would be successful , but Cm
’
s wonderfulm a y and ability overcame all obstacles and he soon had V ercin
getorix and his infantry shut up in the stronghold of Alesia. Whilebesieging him he was himself besieged by another army of
strugg le between the aristocratic party led by Sulla and the democratic party headed by Marius. Cwsar inclined to the latter and on thetriumph of Sulla was deprived of his property and fled to Asia . Onthe death of Sulla three years later, he returned to Rome and enteredpublic life, holding various offices and taking a prominent part in thepolitical intrigues of that period. He acquired a reputation as a genera] by a brief but brilliant command in Spain and gained the favorof the Roman people by the huge sums of money he lavished inpublic games and entertainment. At that time, the two most powerful men of Rome Pompey , the great general , and the wealthyCrassus , leader of the Capitalists , were not on friendly terms. Cu ar
reconciled them and formed an alliance with them known as theFirst Triumvirate. The govemorship of the provinces of Gaul (whichis nowFrance)was awarded to him and in B .C . 58 he set out tothoroughly subdue the rebellious and warlike people who inhabitedthat country .
His exploits during the next nine years would alone have been sufficient to give him lasting fame. In six brilliant and sucwssful cam
paigns, he subdued all Gaul , crossed the Rhine and ravaged a part of
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Gauls but he in turn built strong fortifications, successft defendedhimself against the outer army , and at last succeeded in capturingAlesia and breaking the rebellion . During the next year, he stampedout the last flamesof revolt and by hiswise and generous treatmentof the people so completely pacified them , that hewas able to set outfor Italy in the following spring, leaving the Roman rule firmly established throughout the province.Crassus was now dead and Pompey, who had gradually become
estranged from Ce sar was the leader of the aristocratic party . TheRoman senate, jealous of Ce sar
’
s splendid success and fearful of hispopularity among the soldiers and people, ordered him to disband hisarmy and appointed Pompey to protect the state against him . For
answer Cmsar with his devoted soldiers crossed the R ubicon , a
small river that formed the boundary of his province, moved swiftlytoward R ome among the joyful greet ings of the people and withinthree months made himself master of all Italy. He next subduedPompey’s generals in Spain and proceeded to Greece , where Pom
pey , who had escaped from Italy , met him at the head of a powerfularmy that he had raised in the Roman provinces of the East . At thebattle of Pharsalia (48 Pompey was totally defeated and fled toEgypt, where he was murdered. Cae sar, who was now appointedDictator, followed him to Egypt , met Cleopatra and fought for herthe Alexandrine War. He also carried on a successful campaign inAsia and crushed the last of Pompey’s generals in Africa, returning toRome in the year 46 Here he held four magnificent triumphs,ente rtaining all Rome with feasts and spectacles , and showed himselffar above all thoughts of revenge by freely pardoning his politicalenemies .
Ce sar was nowat the height of his power. Hewas given the titlesFather of his Country and Imperator, made Dictator for life, and hisperson declared sacred and even divine. He reformed the calendar,passed some long needed laws and was about to enter upon a series
of mighty public enterprises such as digging canals, founding libraries, codifying the laws, etc., when his vast designs were cut short byhis assassination on the fifteenth day of March in the year 44Of the sixty conspirators who planned his murder, a few like Brutuswere honestly moved by a desire to put the state once more under arepublican form of government ; the rest took part from jealousy andfrom desire to regain their powerat all hazards. Theywereunsuccessful in their aims , as after thirteen years of anarchy and bloodshedOctavius , nephew and heir of Cae sar, gained complete control of thegovernment and became the Emperor Augustus .
Julius Cae sar is one of the greatss t figures in the world’
s his
tory. He excelled in everything that he undertook. As a soldierand statesman his ability has never been surpassed ; as an orator, hewas among the first of his age ; as a historian he is unequalled in thesimplicity and vigor of his narrative. He was a man of the world,cultivated and courteous , a bri l liant talker, welcome in any societyand equally at home by the campfires of his soldiers, in the royalpalaces of Egypt , or at the social functions of the most exclusiveof the Roman nobility. Like Napoleon, he subordinated everythingto his aims , and if occasion demanded could be both cruel and unsernpulous , although by nature he was noble minded and generous andpreferred to win over his enemies rather than to destroy them .
Taking him as the statesman who built on the ruins of the Republicthe foundations of the Empire, as the patron of learning who foundedlibraries in all the great towns , and filled Rome with men of science ,
culture and letters, as the legislator who drafted laws which still control the world , as the profound scholar who dictated the correctionof the calendar, as the thinker, for the grasp of whose mind nothingwas too intricate , nothing too broad , Caesar was, indeed,
‘ the foremost man in all the world.
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See his Life by James Anthony Froude, or, for a les s favorableview, the third volume of Ferrero
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s Greatness andDecline ofRome.
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and of conversation, and a friend of learning and of the fine arts . The
the heroes, show howgreatly the imagination of the Middle Ageswasimpressed by his prowess as a soldier and his wisdom as a ruler.
See his Life, translated from the German of Ferdinand Schmidtby George P. Upton (for young people) or by H. W. C . Davis .
(Heroes of the Nations Series .) Also“The Holy Roman Empire ,
”
by James Bryce, the standard history of the empire founded byCharlemagne and ended by Napoleon .
CHARLES II OF ENGLAND . (Vol. 8, p.
King of England, Scotland , and Ireland . Born in 1630. Son ofKing Charles I . While hewas a boy, the CivilWar broke out inwhichhis fatherwas deposed and executed and theyoung Princewas obligedto seek safety abroad . In 1650 he landed in Scotland and in thefollowing year invaded England with an army of men in an
attempt to gain the throne, but was utterly defeated by Cromwellat the battle of Worcester and with great difficulty succeeded inmaking his escape to the continent. Eight years laterCromwell died,and the country fearful of a military despotism , made haste to recallCharles from his long exile and to proclaim him king. His reign wasone of the most dishonorable in England’s history as he was indolent, dissipated , and without principle and seldom hesitated to sacrifice his country or his friends for the sake of case or money.
For a vivid picture of England at the time ofCharles II see ChapterIII of Macaulay’s “History of England .
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CHARLES OF SWEDEN, THE BOY CONQUEROR . (Vol . 8,p.
Born in 1682. Crowned King of Sweden (Charles XII)at the ageof fifteen. Twoyears later hewas involved inwar with three power
THE CID , OR CID CAMPEADOR (L ORD CHAMPION).(Vol . 4, p.
The most celebrated of Spanish heroes . Rodrigo or Buy Diazlived in the eleventh century andwas commander of the troops of theking of Leon, a province of Spain . On the assassination of the king ,
Africa) then held much of Spain and Buy Diaz took service withthem gaining the title of Cid or Lord . Hewas at length reconciled tothe king but was soon after exiled for the second time and became a
mark and brought that country quickly to terms, then subduedPoland, and invaded Saxony , compelling her ruler, the ElectorAugustus to sue for peace. Charleswas nowrespected and feared byall the nations of Europe and if his statesmanship had been equal
to his military ability he might have succeeded in making himself themost powerful sovereign on the Continent. Lured on, however, bythe love of glory he determined to conquer Russia and invadedthat country at the head of veteran soldiers. Peter theGreat, the Russian Czar, adopting the tactics afterwards used againstNapoleon, retreated to the interior, laid waste the country behindhim , and when the Swedish army was sufliciently exhausted, fellupon it and destroyed it at one blow. Charles escaped to Turkeywhere he wasted the next three years in intriguing against Russia.
In 1714 he escaped from Turkey in disguise and with but one com
panion , and after an exciting journey succeeded in reaching Sweden.
In 1718 he invaded Norway and was killed in battle .
See Volta ire’s brilliant “History of Charles XII .”
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With the aid of his numerous followers, he drove the Moors fromValencia and held that province for five years, winning many vic
tories over his powerful neighbors. He is said to have died of griefin 1099 on hearing that his comrade Alvar Fanez had been defeatedby the Moors.
See Cid Campeador,Series .)
WILL IAM CL ARK. (Vol . 8, p .
American soldier and explorer. Born in Virginia, 1770, served inthe American army and shared with Meriwether Lewis the commandof the famous Lewis and Clark expedition sent out by PresidentJefferson to explore the country between the Mississippi and thePacific. He was afterwards Indian Agent, Governor of MissouriTerritory, and Superintendent of Indian A flairs. Died in 1838.
GRACE DAR L ING. (Vol . 8, p .
English heroine . 1815—42. She became famous by accompanying her father, a lighthouse keeper of Northumberland , England,in a daring rescue of the survivors of a wreck that occurred nearthe lighthouse.
ALEXANDER DUMAS. (Vol. 8, p.
French novelist . Born in 1802. Went to Paris at the age of
twenty-one with in his pocket and within a few years acquiredwealth and reputation as a playwright and afterwards as a novelist .
Hiswork brought him enormous returnsbut he squanderedhismoneyso recklessly that in 1853 hewas compelled to leave France in orderto
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evade his creditors, and spent the next nineteen years of his lifein wandering over Europe. He died in 1870. Dumas published in all
298 volumes but many of these were written or planned by othersunder his direction. Although his novels lack depth and insight, hedisplays in the best of them, such as
“The Three Musketeers,”
by H. B . Clark. (Heroes of the Nation
Twenty Years After,” The Vicomte de Bragelonne, and The
Count of Monte Cristo,”
an extraordinary fertility of inventionand skill as a narrator that make them among the most absorbingstories ever written
DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT . (Vol . 8, p .
M erican naval officer. Born near Knoxville, Tenn ., in 1801
At the age of nine years he entered the United States Navy as midshipman on the Essex and accompanied that vessel on her famousPacific cruise in the War of 1812. He rose steadily in rank and in
1841 was appointed Commander. During the Civil War, he foughtwith remarkable success on the Northern side, distinguishing himselfparticularly by his capture of New Orleans and his operations on theMississippi, and by a daring and successful attack on the Confederatefleet and forts at Mobile Bay . He was raised to the rank of Admiralin 1866 and died four years later at Portsmouth, N. H .
See David S .Farragut,” by JamesBarnes . (Beacon Biographies.)
CYRUS W . FIELD. (Vol . 9 , p .
American financier and projector of the first submarine cable.Born at Stockbridge, Mass ., 1819 . He became interested in submar
ine cables in 1854 anddetermined to construct a line from Newfoundland to Ireland . The cable was laid after many attempts but brokesoon after the first message of congratulation was transmitted . In
spite of public Opinion and financial disaster Field persisted in hiseffort and in 1866was finally successful . He died in 1892.
JAMES A . GARFIELD . (Vol . 7, p .
Soldier, Congressman , and 20th President of the United States.Born in Orange, Ohio, in 1831, and brought up on a farm . He worked
success on the Northern side in the Civil War, rising to the rank ofMajor-General. From 1863—80he was a member of the House of
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Representatives and a conspicuous figure in national politics . In
1880he was elected President on the Republican ticket, but only afew months after his inauguration was shot and fatally woundedby a disappointed office-seeker.
WILLIAM LLOYD GAR R ISON . (Vol . 8, p .
Abolitionist leader. Born in Newburyport, Mass , in 1805 .
Began life as a printer and journalist . He was bitterly opposed toslavery at a time when there was but little sentiment against it evenin the North . In 1831 he started the publication in Boston of The
L iberator in which he steadily fought against negro slavery until itwas ended by the Emancipation Proclamation . A s publisher of TheL iberator and president of the Anti-Slavery Society , Garrison wasthe subject of bitter attacks by the slaveholders and their sympath izers in all parts of the country and at one time, his lifewas endan
gered by a hostile mob in the city of Boston . He died in 1879 .
BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD . (Vol . 7, p .
English navigator and explorer . In 1602 he sailed to America witha party of colonists and explored theNew England coast but withoutmaking a settlement. Five years laterhe took a prominent part in thesettlement of Jamestown , V a. , and was one of the first of that illfated colony to succumb to disease .
THE BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN . (Vol . 9 , p .
Fought in December, 1800, between the French underMoreau andthe Austrians under Archduke John . The Austrians were defeatedand driven from the field with severe loss.
JOHN, KING or ENGL AND . (Vol . 9, p . 226; Vol . 10, p .
Son of Henry II and brother of R ichard the Lion Hearted. Bornin 1167 , and crowned King in 1199 . His rulewas so oppressive andcruel that his nobles turned against him at a time when his powerwas weakened by a disastrouswarwith fi ance and by a quarrel with
the Pope ; and in 1215 they compelled him to sign the Magna Charts
(Great Charter)by which the power of the king was decreased and
many important reforms made in the administration of law courtsand the government. He died in 1216.
LOUIS JOLIET . (Vol . 8, p .
1645—1700. Canadian explorer. Born in Canada, acquired a reputation as a fur-trader and crafty woodsman and was appointed byCount Frontenac, Governor of Canada, to explore the MississippiR iver. Accompanied byFatherMarquette he reached the Father ofWaters ”
in 1673 and floated down as far as the Arkansas Ri ver . On
his return, as a reward for his services, he was given the island ofAnticosti and later a large estate near Quebec, still in the possessionof his descendants .
See L a Salle and the Discoveries of the Great Northwest , byFrancis Parkman .
LA SALLE , RENE—ROBERT GAVEL IER , SIEUR DE. (Vol .8, p .
Famous French explorer. Born in 1643, and at the age of twentythree emigrated to Canada. He devoted himself to the explorationof the Western territory and, after several unsucwssful attempts,managed in 1682 to reach the Mississippi at its junction with theIllinois R iver, and floated down it to the Gulf of Mexico takingpossession in the name of the French King of the immense territorythrough which it flowed . L a Salle returned toQuebec determined tocolonize the new country , crossed the Atlantic, interested the Kingin his project and in 1684 set sail with four ships for the mouth of theMississippi . On arriving in the Gulf ofMexico L a Salle, confused bythe numerous lagoons and inlets , landed his expedition at the mouthof a bay which he mistook for the great river. The next two yearswere spent in fruitless attempts to find the Mississippi or to maketheirway through thewilderness to Canada. At length, a part of the
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FATHER MARQUETTE . (Vol . 8, p .
French Jesuit missionary and explorer. Born 1637. Went toCanada at the age of twenty-nine and six years later accompaniedJoliet in his exploration of the Mississippi, descending as far as theArkansas R iver. In the fall of the year Marquette was taken sickwhile on a mission to the Illinois Indians and died before reachingcivilizationSee “The Life of FatherMarquette , by Reuben S . Thwaites, and
also “L a Salle and the Discoverers of the Great Northwest, by
Francis Parkman .
SIR JOHN MOORE. (Vol. 9, p .
British general . Born 1761. During the Napoleonic Wars he wassent to Spainwith men to aid the Spanish in their resistance tothe French invas ion. When in the interior of the country he learnedthat Madrid had fallen and that Napoleon was hurrying to crushhim at the head of an overwhelming force . His only course was an
immediate retreat which he ably conducted, reaching the coast insafety after a march of two hundred and fifty miles through desolateand flooded country and under the constant attacks of the enemy’scavalry . Before the British could embark, they were attacked by theFrench army under Soult and a desperate battle ensued in which theFrench were at last repulsed . During the fightMoore was woundedby a cannon ball and died at the moment of victory
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE . (Vol . 7, p. 450; Vol . 8, p . 275
Vol . 9 , p.
Soldier, statesman , and Emperor of France. Born on the islandof Corsica , 1769 . At the age of ten he ente red amilitary academy andsix years later was given a commission as lieutenant in the artillery .
In the wars of the French revolution, he attracted attention by hismasterly handling of the artillery at the siege of Toulon and was
appointed to defend the Convention that governed France after the
R eign of Terror against the attacks of the discontented Parisians .
For his able services in this position hewas appointed commander ofthe Army of the Interior. In 1796 he married Josephine de Beauharnais, a beautiful Creole widow and was given command of thearmy of Italy .
At this time France was at war with England, Austria, and Sar
dinia . Italy was made up of many states owned or controlled byAustria and offered a rich spoil for the conqueror. Napoleon’
s military genius was never shown to better advantage than in the Italiancampaign of 1797. With a poorly equipped , poorly clad, and unpaidarmy , the youth of twenty-six drove the Austrians from the country,defeating army after army led by veteran commanders, sent to Parismil lions of dollars and priceless art treasures that be seized as wartribute , organized the conquered country into a Republic, crossedthe Alps, brought the war to a close when within one hundred milesof Vienna by concluding on his own authority a treaty of peace between France and Austria, and returned to Paris, the hero of the
Napoleon nowdreamed of rivaling Alexander the Great and humbling England, his country’s most determined enemy , by the conquest of India. The government, delighted to be rid of a man so
popular and so ambitious , approved his plan and in 1798, he set sailfor Egyptwith an army of men . His plans were frustrated bythe destruction of h is fleet by the English under Lord Nelson and bythe obstinate resistance of the Turks , and after several brilliantbut fruitless victories , he returned to France leaving his army behindhim . He was hailed as a deliverer by the people who had wearied ofmisgovernmmt and were ignorant of his reverses in Egypt , and bythreats and skillful intrigues he overthrew the administration and
set up a new form of government, securing for himself the office ofFirst Consul which carried with it almost absolute power. Soon afterhe unexpectedly crossed the Alps, surprised and defeated the Aus
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trians at Marengo, again conquered Italywhich had been regained byAustria during the Egyptian campaign, and concluded a treaty ofpeace with that country and with England on terms very favorable
This period marks the zenith of Napoleon’
s vigor and ability . Al
though but thirty years of age he had already shown himself suprememasterof the art of warfare and of diplomacy , and he nowproved thathis genius for administrationwas no less remarkable. With the assistance of the able men he had gathered about him, he accomplished ina few months’ time enough to have given fame to a dozen statesmen
reorganizing the government, regulating the taxes , reconstructing the educational system , codifying the laws, and promoting inevery way the prosperity of the French people. At the same timehis aggressive diplomacy was extending French power and territoryin all parts of the globe .
In 1804 , Napoleon was crowned Emperor of France and within a
few days England, R ussia, and Austria, alarmed by his unscrupulousambition and rapidly increasing strength , formed an alliance againsthim known as the Third Coalition . Napoleon’
s plans for the invasion of England having been foiled by the activities of the Englishfleet, he hurled his forces at Austria , captured Vienna and defeatedthe combined armies of R ussia and Austria at the great battle ofAusterlitz. While this brilliant campaign left Napoleon master ofthe continent, England, by Nelson
’
s destruction of the French fleetat Trafalgar, gained complete control of the ocean .
In 1806-07, Napoleon made important changes in the map ofEurope, forming the South German states into the Confederation ofthe Rhine, establishing his brother Joseph as King of Naples and hisbrother Louis as King of Holland . On Prussia ’
s daring to protest, becrushed her in a brief campaign. He also formed an alliance withRussia and attempted to destroy the prosperity of England by prohibiting the other nations from engaging in commerce with her. He
Napoleon was nowat the height of his power. He was master of acontinent, worshipped by his nation , feared and obeyed by the proudest sovereigns of Europe. He commanded an army that had neverknown defeat, his treasury was crammed with the war tribute ofvanquished nations, he made and unmade kings and princes at hispleasure . Never in modern history has such power been wielded bya single man . But changes were slowly taking place that foretold hisdownfall . The commercial blockade of Englandwas causing sufferingand dissatisfaction in all parts of the continent and particularly inRussia. Public opinion throughout Europe was gradually turningagainst him , the common people, a great part of whom had regardedhim with admiration , now recognizing the selfishness of his aims andwilling at last to throw themselves heart and soul into the struggleagainst him . Moreover, his boundless ambition and self-confidencewere hardening his heart and obscuring his judgment. Hewas fol
lowing his Destiny .
” Meanwhile all Europe was silently preparingfor the great conflict that was now inevitable.
His first check was in Spain . The people of that country had
risen against the usurperandafter threeyears of bloodywarfare drovethe French troops across the Pyrenees . But the first real blow to hispower came from R ussia. In 1812 that country was driven byNapoleon’
s fatal commercial policy intoan alliance with England and
placing his brother Joseph on the throne and his brother-in-lawMurat on the throne of Naples. Austria again declared war and wasagain overwhelmingly defeated , losing much territory : a new kingdom (Westphalia)was carved from Germany for Jerome Bonaparte ;Holland and a large part of Italy and Germany were formally an
nexed to France ; the Pope on protesting against the loss of his Italianterritorywas carried off into captivity ; Josephinewas divorced and amarriage arranged with Maria Louisa, daughter of the Emperor of
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Sweden . War was declared and Napoleon confidently set out on his
great invasion of R ussia. The result was complete disaster. He waslured far into the interior. Moscow, where he had planned to passthe winter, was burned, and the country laid waste behind him .
Confident that the R ussian Emperor would treat for peace he delayed his retreat until October. A severe winter set in . The starvingand dispirited troops were harassed on all sides by bands of Cos
sacks. The country through which they passed was a desert . Of themagnificent army of men that had crossed the frontier inJune, only were left to recross it in December. More seriouseven than the loss of men was the loss of prestige . Napoleon was nolonger invincible , and all Europe, emboldened by his great disaster,slowly closed around him .
Prussiawas the first to join the allies, the people rising up as a man
to revenge themselves on their conqueror. Austria, before joining,held out an honorable peace, but Napoleon indignantly refused .
Nothing could bend that iron will . Nothing remained but to breakit.” In August Austria declared war and Napoleon , his country exhansted and stripped of fighting men, faced the combined forcesof themost powerful nations of Europe . With wonderful energy he raiseda new army and succeeded for a short time in holding the allies incheck , but the forces opposing him were too powerful to be withstood. He was slowly driven back , desperately contest ing everystep of theway , handling his little army of worn out and despondentmen wi th amarvelous skill, and repeatedly defeating and delaying hisenemies by the rapidity and daring of his tactics . In November, heagain refused to accept a peace that would have left France intact.Within a few months Paris was occupied by the allies . Napoleon ’
s
generals and supporters were now rapidly deserting him and on
April 11, 1814, he abdicated his throne andwas exiled to the islandof Elba.
On the 26th of February , 1815 , he escaped from Elba and landed
in France where he was welcomed with extravagant joy by thepeople. He quickly reestablished his power, gathered together a
new army, hurried to meet the forces the allies were rapidly assembling, and on the 18th of June, attacked Wellington at Waterloo.
The English held their position all day and when their Prussianallies joined them in the evening, the French were completelycrushed and the power of Napoleon for ever broken . (See BattleofWaterloo,
” page After a vain attempt to escape toAmerica,he surrendered himself to the British andwas conveyed to the islandof St. Helena where he remained captive until his death in 1821.
Napoleon was supreme master of all the talents that make forgreatness . A cool, decisive nature , boundless energ , inflexible will.keen sure judgment, unexampled rapidity in conceiving and carryingout his plans , an ability to inspire soldiers and subordinates wi th hisown activity and confidence all these combined to give him his
unequalled success in warfare and diplomacy . He “was a man who,
in each moment and emergency , knew what to do next .” He wascold-hearted and self-centered , sacrificing without scruple the individual or the nation that stood between him and his ambition ; alover of power for its own sake, eager alike to direct the pet ty intrigues of his court and the momentous policies of nations ; a bornactor, calculating even his outbursts of anger for their effect ; andabove all supremely alive and capable, exerting his ceaseless activityin every direction and electrifying the world by his superhumanenergy and power of achievement. Of him Emerson has said,
“Herewas an experiment, under the most favorable conditions, of thepowers of intellect without conscience . Never was such a leader soendowedandsoweaponed ; never leaderfound suchaids and followers.
And what was the result of this vast talent and power, of these immense armies , burned cities, squandered treasures, immolated millions of men , of this demoralized Europe? It came to no result. Allpassed away like the smoke of his artillery , and left no trace . He left
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made his famous ride to Lexington to warn Hancock and SamuelAdams of the approach of the British troops, arousing the people onhis way . He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the State Artillery ,served in the Revolution, and died in 1818.
ROBIN HOOD . (Vol . 4 , p . 162 ; Vol . 9 , p . 222 ; Vol . 10, p . 257,
under the name Of Locksley .)The hero of a group of English ballads which represent him as an
outlaw dwell ing in Sherwood forest. Thirty-nine different balladshave been collected of which he is the subject, the oldest of themdating back to about 1400. In the legends, Robin Hood representsthe ideals of the people as King Arthur does of the upper classes . Hereadjusts property , taking from the rich to give to the poor, he is agreat sportsman and archer, daring and playful , a lover Of the woodsand Of free life. The most complete collect ion of Robin Hood balladsis in Professor Childs’s English and Scottish Ballads.
” The bestprose version for young people is by Howard Pyle.
WINFIELD SCOTT. (Vol . 8, p .
American soldier. Born in Virginia in 1786. Entered the army atthe age of twenty-two, and distinguished himself in theWar of 1812,
particularly at the battles of Queenstown , Chippewa, and Lundy’
s
Lane. In 1841, he was appointed commander of the United Statesarmy and led the American troops with great success during the warwith Mexico in 1846—48 . In 1852, he was the Whig candidate forPresident but was defeated . He retired from active service at theoutbreak of the Civil War and died in 1866.
See his Life byWright (Great Commanders Series)or The Giantof Three Wars , by Barnes (for young people).ALEXANDER SELKIRK. (Vol. 5 , p . 73, Robinson CrusoeVol . 9 , p .
An English sailor whose career suggested to Defoe the story ofRobinson Crusoe. Born in 1676. While on a privateering expedition
in 1704, he quarreled with his captain andwas p ut ashore at his re
quest ou the is land of Juan Fernandez, where he l ived in solitudc
for four years , being rescued at length by a passi ng ship .
HENRY M . STANLEY. (Vol . 8, p.
See List of Authors, page 115 .
BARON FREDER ICK VON DER TRENCK . (V ol . 8 , p.
German adventurer. Born in 1726. He became an ofi eer in the
Prussian army but was imprisoned by Frederick the Great , King ofPrussia, owing it is said , to a love affair with the k ing
’
s sister. Heescaped in a short time and entered the Austrian army . In 1754, he
was rearrested by Frederick the Great and confined for ten yearsatMagdeburg, during which t ime he made many desperate but unsacvessful attempts to escape . He was finally released at the request of
the Austrian queen and employed on various secret service missions.At the outbreak of the French Revolution he went to Paris as a spectator, was accused of being an Austrian spy and guillotined in 1794.
GEORGE WASHINGTON . (Vol . 6, 348 ; Vol . 8, p.
American soldier and statesman . First Pres ident of the UnitedStates . Born in Virginia in 1732. As a boy he was ath let ic , an ex
pert rideranda leader amonghis companions .His educationwascompleteat the age of sixteen and he became apublic surveyor. He didhiswork well and gained the esteem and friendship of the leading mmof the colony before he was twenty-one . In 1751, he was appointedmajor in the militia, entered with zeal into the study of military tsetics, and two years laterwas sent by the Governor to gain information of the French settlement on the Ohio R iver. He made the longwilderness journey in safety , picked up some valuable informationat the French outposts , gained the friendship of several tribes ofIndians and came back to Williamsburg the hero of the hour. The
next year he commanded the Virginia forces in a small expedition
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against the French and Indians and in 1755 was appointed aide toGeneral Braddock, commander of the British army sent over toattack the French and their Indian allies . Washingtonwhohad triedin vain to persuade the General to adopt the Indian mode of warfare,assumed command of the provincial troops after the fatal ambuscadeand death of Braddock , and by his presence of mind and intrepidcourage prevented a stil l more disastrous defeat .In 1759 , he married Mrs. Martha Custis , and devoted himself to
the management of his extensive property . Some time before that,he had gained by inheritance the large estate of Mt. Vernon, and
nowby his marriage was one of the wealthiest men in the colony .
He moved much in society , was a member of the Virginia Legislature and took a prominent part in public affairs. He was one of thedelegates appointed to attend the First Continental Congress in1774, and in the following year he was chosen by that body com
mander-in-chief of the Continental ArmyFor this position he was very well fitted, as he was skilled and
experienced in warfare, familiar with the country, and well knownthroughout the colonies . He assumed command on July 3, 1775 , atCambridge, Mass , and within a few months organized the undisci
plined and irregular bodies of militia and volunteers into a compactarmy . In the six years that followed Washington had need of all hisunflinching courage and strength of mind . His little army was re
peatedly defeated by the British and suffered severely from lack offood and clothing, Congress was distracted by petty quarrels and
hindered more than helped him , some of his own oflicers conspiredagainst him , the patriots were exhausted and despondent. But atlength his perseverance and energy , his absolute honesty and hisunselfish devotion triumphed over all Obstacles, the colonies wererecognized as free and independent and in 1783Washington resignedhis command and retired to private life.
After a few years on his estate he was selected to preside over
the convention that framed the Constitution and in 1788was unanimously chosen first President of the United States. His adm inistration was marked by the industry , painstaking care and far-sightedwisdom that characterized all his conduct. He made himself thoroughly fami liar with the affairs Of state and the organization of thedifferent departments , and suggested to Congress many wise laws.
He allied himse lf with neither party , appointing both Hamilton and
Jefferson , the leaders of the different fact ions, to places in theCabinet. At the close of his term he was unanimously reelected .
His second term was somewhat embittered by the violence Of partyfeeling. The French Revolution was in progres s, France was at warwith England , and many Americans believed we should help our
former ally . Washington, realising the danger Of foreign alliance s,wisely refused and in consequence was attacked with the utmostbitternes s by the extreme members of Jefferson ’
s party . In 1796 hedeclined to serve again and retired to Mt. Vernon followed by thelove and veneration Of the nation . Here he devoted himself to thecare of his estate, keeping in touch , however, with public affairs bymeans of a very extensive correspondence with the leading men in allparts of the country. He died on December 14, 1799 , after a briefillness. His death was deeply mourned both in this country and in
Europe as a loss to the world of a noble minded statesman and
friend Of mankind.
Washington ranks with the world ’s great soldiers and statesmen.
He fought a long and difficult war to a successful conclusion and didmore than any other man to establish the republic on a firm basis .
What he lacked in dash and brilliancywas made up by his good sense,sound judgment, perseverance and strength of mind . Consideringhis moral courage, his unselfish devotion to duty , his serene hopefulness under defeat, the integrity of his motives and the services thatbe rendered to his country , few if any of the world
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s heroes can besaid to have surpassed him.
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Two good biographies are those by Horace E . Scudder (for youngpeople) and by Henry Cabot Lodge (American Statesmen Series).See also, The American Revolution , by John Fiske.
BATTLE OF WATERLOO. (V ol . 9, p .
The most famous battle in theworld’s history . Fought on the 18thof June, 1815 , between the English , Prussians and their allies underWell ington and Blucher, and the Ihench under Napoleon. (SeeNa
poleon, page The French began the battle at half pos t one by aseries of unsuccessful attacks on the English line . About threeO’clock Napoleon learned that the Prussian army was approaching,having evaded the forces he had sent under Marshal Grouchy tooppose it. It was necessary to take the English position at onceand Napoleon ordered it carried at any cost . A furious attack wasmade along the whole line. The Eng lish formed into squares , theouter lines kneeling , their bayonets extended, the inner lines stand
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ing to fire, those in the centre reloading the guns. A deadly artilleryfire played over them . Squadron after squadron of cavalry washurled against them . Several of the squares were almost cut to piecesbut as each man fell another stepped forward to takehisplaceand thehedge of steel remained unbroken . In a last des perate effort, Napoleon ordered the Old Guard to charge, but they too were unable topenetrate the English line and were driven back with fearful loss .
The Eng lish in their turn charged . The French wavered and beganto retreat. The Prussian army arrived and immediately went intoact ion . The retreat became a rout and the French army was scattered far and wide. Four battalions of the Guards refused to surrender and perished almost to aman . The actual forces engaged were
French and all ies . The losses approximatelyFrench and allies . The resul t of the battle was the finaloverthrow of Napoleon and his exi le to St. Helena.
See Creasy’
s“Fifteen Decisive Battles .
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OtherPeople, ” “ Prudence Palfrey,” “TheQueenof Sheba, and The
Stillwater Tragedy (fiction);“The Story of a Bad Boy ,
”
a juvenileclassic, partly describing his own childhood ; From Ponkapog toPes and several volumes Of verse. 1See his Life by Ferris Greenslet .
MRS . CECIL F. ALEXANDER. Irish poet. 1818—1895 . Bestknown as a writer Of hymns and religious verse. Her two most famous poems are
“The Burial of Moses ” and All Things Brightand Beautiful .”
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. Anglo-Irish poet. 1824—1889 . Authorof
“Day and Night Songs,
” “ Songs, Ballads, and Stories,” “Flower
Pieces, and Other Poems,” etc.
HANS CHR ISTIAN ANDERSEN . Born in Denmark in 1805 .
His father, a poor shoemaker, died when Hans was nine years Old,and the lad, left tohis own devices, quitted school and spent his timein reading plays and amusing himself with a toy theatre. His relat ives wanted him to learn tailoring, but Hans preferred to become anOpera singer or dramatist and at the age of fourteen set out to Copenhagen to seek his fortune. For a time he suffered great hardship andwas on the verge of starvation when he managed to attract the notice of some influential people, who detected his talent and sent himto school to complete his education . In 1829 , he published a bookthat was well received , but fame did not come until six years laterwhen “The Improvisatore ,
”
a novel , gave him a European reputation . In the same year, he began the publication of his immortalfairy tales . These at first sold slowly, but their fame steadi ly grewandhe continued to write them at intervals until his death in 1875 . Be
sides his enchanting wonder tales and fairy stories , Andersen wroteseveral novels, of which the best is
“Only a Fiddler, ” and an interesting autobiography entitled “The Story of My Life.
”
GEORGE ARNOLD . Journalist and poet ofNew York City. 1834
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1865 . Author of Drift, and Other Poems and Poems Grave andGay .
MATTHEWARNOLD. English poet and essayist. Born in 1822, ason of the famous Dr. Arnold, head master of R ugby . He was educated at R ugby and Oxford , became private secretary to Lord Lansdowne, and in 1851was appointed inspector of schools, a post that heheld until 1886. He devoted his leisure to the writing Of verse andlater of critical essays, served for ten years as professor Of poetry atOxford, and twice visited the United States as a lecturer. His deathoccurred in 1888.
JAMES J. AUDUBON . Born in Louisiana about 1770, the son of awealthy naval Oflicer. He studied art in Paris , returned to Americaand lived for ten years on a farm near Philadelphia, devoting himselfto the study and painting of birds . In 1808, he married and wentWest with hiswife, determined to seek his fortune, but , instead , lostwhat money he had and was obliged to support himself by drawingportraits and giving lessons in dancing and fencing. All the time,however, he was adding to his collection Of bird drawings and hisknowledge as a naturalist. After eighteen years of wandering and
hardship he went to England, and by exhibiting his drawings,aroused suflicient interest to enable him to publish them in bookform under the title “Birds of North America .
” After fifteen yearsmore of travel through the American wilderness, he settled in NewYork City, where he died in 1851.
There is an interesting Life by John Burroughs (Beacon Biographies.)
MARY AUSTIN . Essayist and story-wri ter Of California. Born in1868. Author of “The Land of Little Rain ,
” The Basket Woman ,
”
Isidro,”
etc.
W. E . A. AXON. English author and journalist. Born in 1846. He
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has written and edited many volumes principally of local and anti
quarian interest.
SAMUEL WHITE BAKER . Born in London, in 1821. In 1848 heestablished an agricultural colony in Ceylon and lived there for someyears. He later superintended the construction Of a railroad con
necting the Danube and the Black Sea , and in 1861, set out with hiswife to find the mysterious sources Of the Nile. After a long andperilous journey , he discovered the Albert Nyanza and solved theproblem that had perplexed the world for thousands of years. On hisreturn , hewas given command of an expedition to suppress the slavetrade in the newly discovered regions and laterwas appointed governor-general . He subsequently explored and hunted in Japan , India,
the United States, and other countries . His death occurred in 1893 .
Author Of R ifle and Hound in Ceylon ,
” “The Albert Nyanza,
”
“Wild Beasts and theirWays,”etc.
SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL. English astronomer. Born in1840. Knighted in 1886. Professor of geometry and astronomy atthe University Of Cambridge. Author of “ Starland ” (for youngpeople),
“Elements of Astronomy,” Stories of theHeavens ,
” Stories Of the Sun,
”
etc.
MARY E . BAMFORD . American writer. Born in California.
Author Of My Land and Water Friends ” and“Up and Down the
Brooks ” (studies of insect life), and of many stories for girls.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD . English author. Born in1743. She began writing verses at an early age, and later achieved aconsiderable reputation by the publication of Miscellaneous Piecesin Prose, written in collaboration with her brother, John Aikin. In
1774, she married a clergyman and establishedwith him a board ingschool for boys. While engaged in this work, she wrote
“Early Lessons for Children ” and
“Hymns in Prose,” and commenced with
her brother the series Evenings at Home, the best known of herjuvenile writings. She died in 1825 .
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR . American writer. Born in Cambridge, Mass . , in 1870. Author of “The Half Back,
” “For the
Honor Of the School,” “Captain Of the Crew,
”
and many otherbooks for boys.
WILLIAM BARTRAM . Traveler and botanist Of Pennsy lvania.
1739—1823. Author of “Travels Through North and South Carolina,
”etc.
ARLO BATES. American author. Born in 1850. Professor of English literature in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AuthorOf Talks onWriting English and
“Talks on the Study of English(essays);
“The Philistines,” “The Puritans,
”etc. (novels);
“Underthe Beech Tree, The Torch Bearers,
”
etc. (verse).
HENRYWARDBEECHER . Born in 1813, at L itchfield, Conn. SonOf Lyman Beecher, the famous clergyman , and brother Of HarrietBeecher Stowe. In 1837, he was ordained as a minister and aftera ten years’ pastorate in Indiana, was called to the Plymouth Churchof Brooklyn , one Of the largest in the country. Here he soon made anational reputation by his eloquent preaching and bold advocacy Ofabolition, temperance, and other reforms. He was a champion ofthe Republican party during the Civil War, and in 1863, while inEngland , upheld the North in a series of stirring lectures that didmuch to change the attitude Of the English people. He died in 1887.
WILLIAM BL AKE. Born in London, in 1757. After a slight education , he was apprenticed to an engraver with whom he remainedseven years. In 1809 , he published his
“ Songs Of Innocence,” fol
lowed a few years later by Songs of Experience,” illustrating them
himself with etchings as singular as were the poems . His later writings include The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,
” The Book ofThel,
”
and other pIOphetic books. He lived on the extreme bor
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derland Of mysticism , believing that he held familiar intercoursewith Moses, Homer, Milton, and other spirits, while the greatnessOf his genius was made evident by the simplicity and fiery splendor Of hi s work both as a poet and an artist. He died in Obscurepoverty in 1827.
FRANK BOLLES. New England nature writer. 1856—1894.
Author Of Land of the Lingering Snow,
” “At the North Of Bearcamp Water,
” From Blomidon to Smoky, and Other Papers,” etc.
BENJAMIN F. BOURNE . Captured by the Patagonians while onhis way to California in 1849 as mate Of a sailing-vessel, and keptprisoner by them for several months. Author Of “A Captive in Pata
JOHN BRERETON. English voyager. Born in 1603. A companionof Gosnold in the first English attempt to settle in New England.
Author of A Brief andTrue Re lation of the Discovery Of the North
E. S. BROOKS. American writer and editor. 1846—1902. Authorof “Historic Boys,
” “The Story Of the United States , ” “The TrueStory of Columbus,
” “The True Story Of George Washington,
”
The True Story of Abraham Lincoln,
” “The Century Book forYoung Americans,
”
etc .
PHILLIPS BROOKS. Protestant-Episcopal bishop and author.
Born in Boston , in 1835 . R ector in Philadelphia and Boston, 1859
1891. Bishop Of Massachusetts from the latter date until his deathin 1893. For many years he was accounted the foremost preacher ofAmerica, and exerted great influence as a religious leader.
ABBIE FARWELL BROWN. American writer, now living in Boston . Author Of “A Pocketful Of Posies ” and “Fresh Posies ” (Verse);“The Lonesomest Doll and
“The Flower Princess ”
(fairy tales);Brothers and Sisters and Friends and Cousins (stories); In
the Days of Giants, The Book Of Saints and Friendly Beasts ,and many other successful books for young people.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . Born in 1806. She wasan unusually precocious child and composed an epic poem at the ageof eleven . In 1835 , her family moved from rural England to London,
where for seven years she was confined to her bed by sickness. Shecontinued to write verse, however, and by the publication of TheSeraphim and Other Poems established her reputation as a poet Ofunusual depth of feeling and felicity Of expression. In 1845 , she metRobert Browning, and in the following year was married to him.
They made their home in Italy, where she died in 1861 after a married life Of great happiness. Her best poems are the so—called “
Son
nets from the Portuguese, written during her courtship, and“Aurora Leigh,
”
a romance in blank verse.
ROBERT BROWNING . Born near London in 1812. He earlyshowed his literary tendencies and by the age Of twelve had writtenenough verse to fil l a volume. His parents encouraged his taste, andafter the publication of “Pauline ” (1833)and
“Paracelsus ”
be devoted himself entirely to the writing of poetry. In 1846,
Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, a poet more widely read at
that time than he himself, and journeyed with her to Italy, wherethey lived until her death in 1861. Henceforth he made his home inLondon, taking an active part in the social and lite rary life of themetropolis and living to see the formation of the first Of the Browning clubs. His death occurred in Venice in 1889.
Among the most important Of his works are Pippa Passes,Dramatic Lyrics,
” Dramatic Romances,” Men and Women,
Dramatis Personae, and The R ing and the Book.
See his Life by William Sharp.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Born in Massachusetts in 1794.
In early life, he began the practice of law, but soon abandoned it for
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criticism Of his private life, he went into exile on the Continent in1816and never returned to England . In 1823, he took part in an ex
pedition for the liberation Of Greece and died the following year atMissolonghi .Byron ’
s personality and writings exerted a remarkable fascinationover his contemporaries, and for nearly half a century the literatureof all Europe was influenced by the fiery spirit of revolt that is thedominant note of his poetry .
THOMAS CAMPBELL. Born in Glasgow, in 1777. He made anearly reputation as a poet by the publicat ion Of his Pleasures ofHope.” After a journey on the Continent, duringwhich he witnessedthe Battle of Hohenlinden , he returned to London, where he passedthe rest Of his life. His extensive prose writings gained him a pensionfrom the Government, but he is now remembered only for his lyricpoems. He died in 1844 .
ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY. English author. Her first novelwas published in 1868, and since then she has written about thirty
popular stories for girls.
PH(EBE CARY. American poet. 1824—1871. Born in Ohio. Cameto New York with her sister Alice in 1852, and was for many yearsprominent in the literary and artistic society Of that city. Author ofPoems Of Faith, Hope, and Love,
”
etc.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. Spanish novelist.1547- 1616. At the age of twenty-three, he enlisted as a soldieragainst the Turks, lost a hand in the great naval battle Of Lepanto,was captured by the Moorish pirates, and taken as a slave to Algiers,where he remained for five years . On his return to Spain , he marriedand took up literary work, writing verses, a romance , short stories,and about thirty plays . He was appointed tax-gatherer, becameinvolved in financial difficulties, and after a long and costly lawsuit was thrown into prison for debt ; while there he began
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Don Quixote, his masterpiece, and one Of the greatest Of all
works of fiction. The rest of his life was spent in poverty and
COLLEY CIBBER . English actor, dramatist, and poet laureate .
1671- 1757. Manager of Dmry Lane Theatre and author of marryplays and poems, most Of them long since forgotten .
AL FRED J. CHURCH. English educator and writer. 1829—1912.
Author of Heroes Of !Chivalry and Romance,” Pictures from
Greek Life and Stories,” “Stories from Homer,
” “Stories fromLivy, and many other adaptations of classic authors and stories ofancient life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLER IDGE . Born in Devonshire, England,in 1772. He left college to enter the arnrv, but soon abandoned thisuncongenial career for literature and in 1796 published his first volume of poems . Two years later he toured the Continentwith Wordsworth, and on his return he settled in the Lake district of Englandnear his fellow poet. To relieve the pains Of rheumatism, he began totake Opium and fell victim to a habit from which he was never ablecompletely to extricate himself . He passed the latter part Of hislife in London at the house Of a friend, dying there in 1834.
Although one of the greatest critics and philosophers of his period,Coleridge is best known as a poet, his three finest poems,
“Kubla
Khan ,
” Christabel,”
and“The R ime of the Ancient Mariner,
being alone sufficient to place him among the foremost writers ofEnglish verse.
ELIZA COOK. English poet. 1818—1889. Author of The OldArmchair,
”
and several other popular verses.
ROSE TERRY COOKE. A Connecticut poet and writer of shortstories of country life. 1827—1892. Author of “Somebody’s Neighbors,
” “The Sphinx ’
s Children,” “Happy Dodd,” etc.
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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER . Born in Burlington, N. J in
1789. When he was a year Old, his father moved to Otsego Lake,N. Y. , and there the lad gained the knowledge Of frontier life and Indian traits that he afterwards used to such advantage in the LeatherStocking Tales . After twoyears at Yale, he shipped before the mast,and he later served as midshipman in the United States Navy, resigning in 1811 to devote himself to farming. After a few years, hetook up literary work, and in 1821 he wrote The Spy,
”
a story Ofthe Revolution. The success of this book induced him to move toNewYorkand settle down in earnestasanovelist. Within the next fewyears, he published
“The Pioneers,” “The Pilot,
” “Lionel Lincoln,
”
and The Last Of theMohicans,” which is usually considered hismasterpiece. After seven years abroad , he returned to New York, andby his criticism of the crudities Of American society became the Objcet of bitter attacks in the press. These he responded to by libelsuits , conducting his own cases and winning almost every one. Hedied in 1851 at his home in Cooperstown, N . Y.
WILLIAM COWPER . English poet. Born in 1731. After leavingschool, he entered a lawyer
’
s Office, but ill health and periods of insanity prevented him from leading an active life, and induced himto seek tranquillity in the country , where he lived in retirement, devoting himself to literary pursuits . He died in 1800.
GEORGE W. COX. English clergyman and author. Born inIndia, 1827 ; died in 1902. Author Of “Mythology of the AryanNation,
” “History of Greece, ” and other books, most Of them dealing with myths and folk-lore.
DINAHMAR IA MUL OCK CRAIK. English novelist. 1826—1887.
Better known by her maiden name of Miss Mulock. Her reputationrests principally on
“John Halifax, Gentleman , a novel Of theEnglish middle classes that met with remarkable success.
T. CROFTON CROKER . Irish antiquary and writer. 1798—1854.
Author Of Fairy Legends and Tradit ions Of the South of Ireland,“Legends of the Lakes,
”
etc.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. Scottish poet. 1785—1842. Author ofromances, some poems Of considerable length, and several beautifuland spirited songs.
R ICHARD HENRY DANA, JR . 1815- 1882. A noted lawyer ofBoston, better known as the author Of “Two Years before theMast,
”
the story of a voyage round the Horn made in 1837 by theauthor while an undergraduate Of Harvard.
GEORGE WEBB DASENT. English author. Born in the WestIndies in 1820. Died in 1896. Editor Of “Fraser’s Magazine ” and
assistant editorof the London Times.
” TranslatorOf the YoungerEdda,
” “ Story Of Burnt Njal,” “
Gisli, the Outlaw,
” “PopularTales from the North ,
”
and other Scandinavian sagas and stories.
THOMAS DAY. English author and philanthropist. 1748-1789.
He sympathized with the colonies at the time of the American Revolutica and aided their causewith his pen. The
“History of SandfordandMerton,
”
a standard book for children for many generations andthe work by which he is now remembered, appeared in 1783.
DANIEL DEFOE . Born in London, 1661. He first became famousas a pamphleteer and exerted considerable influence by his articleson political subjects . These, at length, gave offense to the Government, and in 1703, he was sentenced to the pillory and to prison.
After his release, he again plunged into journalism, founding a magazine and writing an enormous number Of pamphlets on political andsocial subjects . The success Of “
Robinson Crusoe ” (issued in 1719)led him to turn his attention to story-writing, but none Of his othernovels approach his masterpiece in interest or popularity . His deathoccurred in 1731.
CHARLES DICKENS. Born near Portsmouth, England, in 1812.
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His family were poor and his education slight, but he read with delight the works of Fielding, Defoe, Goldsmith, Cervantes, and othergreat authors that he found in his father’s library. Soon after thefamily’s removal to London, they fell into dire poverty , his fatherwas arrested for debt, and Charles was obliged to earn his living in a
blacking factory . After a short time, their circumstances becamesomewhat easier ; Charles was able to take lessons in shorthand andobtained a position as a reporter in the police courts and later inParliament. In 1833, he contributed to a magazine the tales and
essays afterwards published as“Sketches by Boz.
” These werequite successful , and, shortly after, Dickenswas given the opportunity to furnish the text for a series of pictures to be drawn by Seymour,a popular illustrator. This was the inception of The PickwickPapers.
” Seymour died soon after the project was started, and“Phiz ” (Hablot K. Browne) took his place. The story, which wasissued in monthly numbers, became immensely popular after the introduction of Sam Weller, and was read with delight by all of England, lifting Dickens almost in a day from Obscure poverty to fameand comparative wealth . The Pickwick Papers was followed by“Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby,
” “Barnaby Rudge,” “Old
Curiosity Shop ,” “Christmas Stories ,
”
and after a visit to theUnited States in 1842, American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit,
”
both of which sorely wounded American pride. David Copperfield,
”
usually considered his greates t novel, was published in 1850.
Bleak House,” “Hard Times,
” “Little Dorrit,” “A Tale of Two
Cities,” “Great Expectations,
”and
“Our Mutual h i end ” followed
in regular succession and were impatiently awaited by an immenseaudience in England and America. In 1850, he successft starteda magazine entitled
“HouseholdWords, ” and, in 1867, again visitedthe United Sta tes, meeting with an enthusiastic reception. He diedthree years later while writing The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.
The standard Life of Dickens is by Forster.
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EMILY DICKINSON. An American poet whose entire life waspassed at Amherst , Mass . , in great seclusion. Three volumes of herpoems have been published since her death in 1886.
CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (LEWIS CARROLL).English author. Born in 1832. l e cturer on mathematics at Oxfordand author of many books on that subject. At the same time thathe was publishing his mathematical treatises, he wrote under thepseudonym of Lewis Carroll the delightful volumes of pw e and
verse for children, Of which the best and most popular are“Alice’s
Adventures inWonderlan and Through the Looking-Glass.
” Hedied in 1898.
GEORGE A. DORSEY. American anthropologist and professor atthe University of Chicago. Born in 1868.
PAUL B. DU CHA IL LU. Born in New Orleans in 1835 Of Frenchparentage and educated in Paris . In 1855 , he came to the UnitedStates, was naturalized , and soon afterwent on an exploring expedition to Africa, returning in four years with a gorilla, the first everbrought to civilization , and forty hitherto unknown species of birds.
He made a second trip to Africa in 1863, and later traveled in Norway , Sweden , L apland , and Finland. His death occurred at St .
Petersburg in 1903. He was the author of many books , most ofthem written for young people, of which the most popular are
“MyApingi Kingdom,
” “Life Under the Equator,” “The Country of
the Dwarfs,” “ Stories of the Gorilla Country,
”
and“The Land of
the Midnight Sun .
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MAR IA EDGEWORTH. Born in 1767, in Ireland. Her earlies tworks were on education and were written with her father, whowasalso an author. In 1800, she published her first and best novel, Cas
tle Rackrent,”a story Of Irish life that attained immediate popu
larity . Among her other books are“Belinda,
” Leonora,”
and“Tales of Fashionable Life.” She was particularly successful as a
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HANNAH FLAGG GOULD . 1789—1865 . A poet Of Newburyport,Mass . , whose verse is simple but pleasing . The author of “Rhymesand Poems for Children ,
” “The Golden Vase,”
etc.
THOMAS GRAY. English poet. Born in London, in 1716. Afterleaving college, he traveled on the Continent with Horace Walpole,and, on his return to England, he settled in Cambridge, where, in1769 , he was made professor Of modern history. He led a retired andstudious life and published but few volumes, as hewas a most exacting critic of hi s own writings. The “Elegy Written in a CountryChurchyard,
” thework forwhich he is nowremembered, is one Of themost perfect poems in the English language. He died in 1771.
WILLIAM ELLIOT GR IFFIS. American author and clerg man .
Born in 1843. Pastor in Schenectady , Boston, and Ithaca , N . Y.
An authority on Japan, where he was for some time a teacher. Au
thor of “ Japanese Fairy Tales,” “ Japan : in History , Folk-Lore , and
Art ,” “Brave Little Holland,
”
and many other books, most of themfor young people.
WILHELM AND JAKOB GR IMM . Wilhelm, 1786—1859 ; Jakob,1785—1863. Born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany. Professors in Gettin
gen and later in Berlin . The brothers Grimm were among theworld’s
greatest phi lologists and antiquarians and the authors of many sci
entific works of great immrtance . By the publication of the fairytales andwonder stories that they collected among the German peasants in the course of their scientific researches, they founded thestudy Of folk-lore and gave to theworld a volume that has ever sincebeen one of the most popular of all books for children .
EDWARD EVERETT HALE . Author and clerg man of Boston.
1822—1909 . After his graduation from Harvard he became a Unitarian pastor in Worcester and later in Boston, where he remaineduntil his death , taking an active part in philanthropic and civic activities and exerting a nation-wide influence. The Man Without a
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Country, the most famous Of hiswritings, was first published in the“Atlantic Monthly ” in 1863. Another influential book Of his and
one that has led to the formation of many charitable organizat ionsis
“Ten TimesOne is Ten .
” He has also written a Life of Washington,
“Franklin ia France,” “A New England Boyhood,
”
and manyother works.
LUCRETIA P. HALE . American writer and sister of EdwardEverett Hale. 1820—1900. Best known by her humorous books foryoung people, The Peterkin Papers
”
and The Last of the Peterkins .
SARAH JOSEPHA HALE . 1788—1879 . Philadelphia writer and
for forty years editor of “The Lady ’s Book.
” Itwas largely throughher influence that Thanksgiv ing became a national holiday. AuthorOf Women ’
s R ecord and many volumes Of sketches, stories,poems, etc.
BASIL HALL. British naval Officer, traveler, and writer. 1788
1844 . Author of “Travels in North America ”
(a book that arousedgreat indignation in this country when first published), “Voyagesand Travels ,
”
etc.
JOEL CHANDLER HAR R IS. Author and journalist Of Atlanta.Ga. 1848—1908. He started life as a printer’s apprentice, studiedlaw, turned to journalism, and, in 1890, became editor of the AtlantaConstitution,
” to which paper he contributed his delightful studies ofAfro-American folk-lore . NO other author has succeeded so well inportraying the Southern negro, and his Uncle Remus stories havebecome classics, appealing to both young and Old. Author Of “Nightswith Uncle Remus,
” “Little Mr. Thimblefinger,” “Aaron in the
Wildwoods ,”
etc .
FRANCIS BRET HARTE . American short-story writer. Born inAlbany , N . Y. , in 1839. At fifteen he caught the gold fever and set
out to California, where hewas successively a miner, school-teacher,
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printer, reporter, edi tor, and Secretary of the United States Mint.From 1868 to 1870, he edited the
“Overland Monthly, ” contributingto it “The Luck of Roaring Camp ,
” “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,”“Plain Language from Truthful James ,
”
and other Of his best storiesand poems. After 1878, he made his home abroad, serving as a con
sul in Germany and in Scotland , and finally removing to England,where he passed the latter part of his life, dying in 1902.
See his Life by Merwin .
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE . Born in Salem , Mass., in 1804 .
After graduating from Bowdoin, he returned to Salem , and in 1828
he published Fanshawe,”
his first work Of fiction, followed byTwice-Told Tales. The cool reception these works met with fromthe public induced him to accept a position as weigher in the BostonCustom House at $1200 a year. After losing his place in 1841, hejoined for a short time the Brook Farm cooperative community andsoon after married , making his home at the Old Manse in Concord.
As he was still unable to make a living from literature, he acceptedthe post of surveyor of the Custom House at Salem, writing whilethere,
“The Scarlet Letter,”
his greatest work and a novel that atonce gave him a reputation both in this country and in England .
After the election of his friend and schoolmate Franklin Pierce tothe presidency , he was appointed consul at Liverpool , and he spentseven years abroad , a record of which he has left in the English,French , and Italian Notebooks, and Our Old Home.” Anotherwork of this period is The Marble Faun .
” He died in 1864, a fewyears after his return to America , and was buried in Sleepy HollowCemetery at Concord, close by his fellow-townsmen, Emerson and
Thoreau.
WILLIAM CAREW HAZLITT. Born in London , in 1834, a grandson OfWillliam Hazlitt, the famous essayist. Author Of
“A Historyof the Venetian R epublic and several volumes of biography, essays,and poems, and editor of many collections of plays, letters, etc.
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J. T. HEADLEY. 1833—1897. A popular historicalwriter of Newburg, N. Y. Author of “Napoleon and His Marshals,
“Life ofOliver Cromwell,” “Washington and His Generals,
”
etc.
P. C. HEADLEY. Clergyman and writer, cousin of J. T. Headley.
1819—1903. Author of many books, principally biographies.
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS. English poet. 1793—1835 .
Her shorter poems are rich in pathos and sentiment, and many Ofthem have long been favorites both in England and America.
GEORGE HERBERT. English poet . Born of a noble family in1593, died in 1633. After trying in vain to secure a place at court,he entered the church , passing the last years of his life as rector in acountry village. He was a man of great learning and piety and theauthor of some Of the finest sacred lyries in the language.HERODOTUS. Born in 484 B .C ., in a Greek colony of Asia Minor.
While a young man hewas sent into exile, and he spent several yearsin traveling through Persia, Egypt, Thrace, and other countries . In447 B .C . , he went to Athens, then at the period of its greatest brilliance and culture, and by readings from his unfinished history, wonthe admiration of the intellectual leaders of the city andwas voted alarge sum of money by the people. In 444 B .C ., he joined a party Ofcolonists bound for southern Italy and nothing further is known ofhim . Herodotus took for the theme of his history the great strugglebetween Europe and Asia, beginning with the Siege of Troy and culminating in the invasion of Xerxes . Into this theme he wove a vastnumber of traveler’s tales, anecdotes, descriptions, etc., making hishistory one Of the most delightful of all classic works .
ROBERT HERR ICK. English poet and vicar of the Church ofEngland. 1591—1674. His songs and lyric poems, published underthe titles,
“Hesperides and“Noble Numbers,
”
are among themostmelodious and graceful in English literature.
THOMAS WENTWORTHHIGGINSON Born in 1823 in Cam
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bridge , Mass. After graduating from Harvard, he entered theministry , leaving it in 1858 to take an active part in the anti-slaverycampaign in Kansas and elsewhere. He served with distinction in theCivil War as colonel of the first regiment of freed slaves, and at theclose Of the war devoted himself to literature, writing
“A YoungFolks’ History of the United States,
” “Army Life in a Black Regiment,
”
and many volumes of biographies , essays, and poems, anddoing notable work for the advancement of education and woman ’
s
rights . He died in Cambridge, in 1911.
FLORENCE HOLBROOK. Educator and writer Of Chicago. Au
thor of “The Book of Nature Myths ,” “Northland Heroes ,
”
and a
number Of text-books .
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND . American journalist and author.
1819—1881. School superintendent in Vicksburg, Mi ss. AssistantEditor of the Springfield Republican,
” founder of Scribner’sMonthly (now the Century Magazine and author, under thepen name of Timothy Titcomb, of many volumes of fiction and
verse.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Born in Cambridge , Mass. , in
1809 . After studying medicine at Harvard and in Paris, he settledin Boston in 1836, publishing the same year his first volume Of verse.
In 1857, the delightq y witty and brilliant Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table,
”
contributed to the “Atlantic Monthly,” brought him
international fame. Among his otherworks are The Professor at theBreakfast Table,” and The Poet at the Breakfast Table,
” bothin the style of The Autocrat,
” though less popular, Elsie Venner,”
a novel, and many poems. He died in Boston , in 1894.
HOMER . A semi-legendary Greek poet reputed to have composedor put into final form the Iliad and probably the Odyssey , the twogreatest epic poems in the world ’s literature, and works that havenever been surpassed in vividness of description, vigor Of action, and
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nobility of style. Nothingwhatever is definitely known Of his life, butit is judged by references in the poems that he lived between theninth and twelfth centuries B .C . To the Greeks, Homer was bothBible and Shakespeare. Many people knew the Iliad by heart, andcriticism and lexicography originated in the study Of these poems .
The most widely read translations at present are the simfl e and literal version Of Lang, Leaf, and Myers (Iliad)and Butcher and Lang(Odyssey). Among the best of the versions in blank verse is that byBryant.
FRANCIS HOPKINSON . 1737—1792. Author and lawyer of Philadelphia, signer of the Declaration Of Independence, and member ofCongres s. His witty and patriotic writings had considerable influence in politics during and after the Revolution.
AUGUSTUS HOPPIN. Am erican writer and illustrator. 1828
1896. Author Of Recollections Of the Auton House,”
and severalnovels.
JULIA WARD HOWE . Poet, philanthropist, and social reformerof Boston . 1819—1910. Before the Civil War she edited with herhusband the Boston Commonwealth ,
”
an anti-slavery journal, andlater devoted herself to woman suffrage, prison reform, etc.
“TheBattle Hymn of the Republic,” her most popular poem , was inspiredin 1861 by seeing the soldiers marching to the tune of “ John Brown ’
s
Body . Her verses have since been collected under the title,“m
Sunset R idge, Poems Old and New.
”
MAR Y HOWITT. English author. 1799—1888. Her writings arechiefly for young people and are very numerous, including stories,verse, histories , scientific works, and travel , written both separatelyand in collaboration with her husband, William Howitt.THOMAS HUGHES. English author and politician . 1823- 1896.
Educated at R ugby school , under the famous Dr. Arnold, and at
Oxford . In 1856 he published “Tom Brown’s School Days,
”
a book
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in the Mexican War, and in 1850 joined the Grinnell Expedition tothe Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin. Three years laterhe again sailed to the Arctic in command Of the ship Advance. Afterexploring a large extent of country hewas forced toabandon his vessel , but at length reached civilization after a journey by sled oftwelve hundred miles . He wrote accounts Of his explorations underthe titles,
“United States Grinnell Expedition ”
and“The Second
Grinnell Expedition .
” Died in 1857.
ANNIE KEARY. 1825—1879 . English novelistandwriter of storiesfor children and author with her sister, E . Keary, of collections Ofmyths and fairy tales .
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. American lawyer. 1780—1843. Duringthe British attack on Baltimore in 1814 he was detained Over-nighton an English ship , to which he had gone on an errand under a flag oftruce, and in the morning, seeing the Stars and Stripes still wavingover Fort McHenry , wrote his famous song The Star-SpangledBanner.
”
HARRY M. KIEFFER . American clergyman and writer. Born in1845 . Enl isted at sixteen as a drummer in a Pennsylvania regimentduring the Civil War and served for three years, publishing his ex
periences in the popular R ecollections of a Drummer-Boy.
CHARLES KINGSLEY. Born in Devonshire, England, in 1819,graduated from Cambridge University and entered the ChurchOf England . He took an active part in the religious and intellectuallife of the period , was a leader in the demand for social reform and
better conditions forworkers andwrote many successful novels, stories for young people, and poems. Among the best of his novels are“Westward HO,
” “Hypatia,
” “Hereward the Wake, and“Alton
Locke.” Of his books for young people, “The Water Babies ” and“The Heroes ” are already classics . He died in 1875 .
RUDYARD KIPLING. Born inBombay, in 1865. Hewas brought
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toEngland while a child and educated at the United Service College,returning to India to engage in journalism . During the next sevenyears he wrote for the Indian newspapers many of his best storiesand poems, including those afterwards published as
“Plain Talesfrom the Hills,
” “ Soldiers Three,” “
In Black and Whi te,”and
“Barrack-Room Ballads,”
and in 1888 he set out for England byway of China, Japan , and the United States , arriving in London tofind himself internationally famous. In 1892 he married and livedfor several years in Vermont. During the BoerWar hewent to SouthAfrica aswar correspondent, and since then he has made his home inEngland, traveling extensively in different parts of the world. Kipling’s writings are unusually varied, including short stories, poems,a volume Of travel , two novels, and some of the best stories foryoung people ever written , among them ,
“The Jungle Books,”
Captains Courageous,“ Just SO Stories,
“Sta lky Co.,
Puck Of Pook’s Hill,”
and“Rewards and Fairies .
”
CHARLES AND MARY LAMB . Charles Lamb was born in 1775.
Hewas educated at Christ’sHospital School and worked in the Omoeof the East IndiaHouse until 1825 , when hewas retired on a pension.
In 1820 he joined the staff of the London Magazine,”towhich he
contributed a' series of essays and sketches, the charm and delicatehumor ofwhich are unequalled in English literature. With his sister,Mary , he rewrote for children the plays of Shakespeare and published a volume Of poems that have been recently reprinted. CharlesLamb died in 1834 , and his sister in 1847.
JOHN LANGHORNE . English poet and clergyman . 1735—1779.
Author of a volume Of verse and translator Of Plutarch ’s Lives.
”
LUCY LARCOM. American poet. Born in'
Beverly, Mass ., in
1826; died in 1893. For many years editor of “Our Young Folks.
”
Author of several volumes of poems, an autobiographical account ofA New England Girlhood, and a number Of devotional books.
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EDWARD LEAR . 1812-1888. English artist and poet, whosehumorous verse, Book of Nonsense,
” “Laughable Lyrics,”
etc.,
illustrated by himself, have delighted young and old.
DAV ID LIVINGSTONE. Born in Scotland , in 1813. Whi le working in a cotton factory , he attended an evening school and gave himself an excellent classical and scientific education. He also studiedmedicine and divinity , and in 1840was ordained as a missionary andsent to South Africa. He gained the friendship Of the native chiefs,learned their languages and commenced a systematic exploration ofthe interior, penetrating to the Zambesi R iver, discovering the V ictoria Falls, and crossing the entire continent from the Atlantic to theIndian Ocean. He was received with great honor on his return toEngland, published Missionary Travels and Researches in SouthAfrica,
”and was appointed British Consul on the east coast Of
Africa . In 1866he again started for the interior, and as nothingwasheard from him for several years, a relief expedition headed by H .
M. Stanley was sent out , finding him at length near Ujiji . Af terparting from Stanley in 1872 he continued his explorations, but inthe following year, worn out by hardship and privation, he died in anAfrican village.
'
His heart was buried beneath a tree by his nativefollowers, his body brought to England, and placed in Westminster
LIVY, TITUS LIVIUS. Roman historian . Born in B .C. 59, probably Of a noble family , in what is now the city of Padua. He cameto Rome about B .C . 31 and lived there for many years, forming afriendship with the Emperor Augustus and gaining great fame bythe publication of his history Of Rome. This originally consisted of142 volumes, of which only 35 have been preserved . Although hiswork makes no pretence to the exactness of modern historians, thecharm and brilliancy of style have placed its author at the headof Roman historians and prose-writers of theAugustanage. Hedied
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Born in Portland,Maine, in 1807, a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mul lins,whose fame he afterwards perpetuated in “The Courtship of MilesStandish.
” After graduating from Bowdoin College and studying forthree years in Europe, he became professor Of modern languages atBowdoin and later at Harvard. In 1854 he resigned his professorship, and thereafter he lived quietly at the famous Craigie House inCambridge until his death in 1882. Besides his poetry he is theauthor of two romances, a volume Of travel , and a translation ofDante’s Divine Comedy .
”
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1819,
graduated from Harvard, and in 1841 issued his first volume ofpoems. Recognition came with the publication in the BostonCourier ” of the Biglow Papers,
”
and in 1855 he succeeded Longfellow as professor Of modern languages at Harvard . For severalyears he was edi tor of the “Atlantic Monthly and joint editor Ofthe “North American Review,
”contributing to these magazines
some of his best work in both verse and prose. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Madrid, and three years later hewas transferredto London where he served with distinction for five years. He diedin 1891 at
“Elmwood,”
his home in Cambridge.Lowell was the most versatile Of American literary men and has
left a solid reputation as a poet, essayist, critic, diplomat, and publicspeaker. His Commemoration Ode is one of the greatest American poems and the Biglow Papers were most original and effective, while his critical essays did much to awaken an appreciation inthis country Of the great masters Of literature.
ROBERT TRAILL SPENCER LOWELL. American clergymanand author, brother of James Russell Lowell. 1816—1891. Missionary in Bermuda and Newfoundland, rector, teacher, and professorat Union College. Author of several volumes of stories and poems.
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THOMA S BABINGTON MACAULAY. Born in Leicestershire,Bug , in 1800. By the age of three hewas a great reader, at seven hewrote a Universal History, and at ten he composed poems and ballads and treatises . After graduating with high honor from Cam
bridge, he devoted himself to literature, and in 1825 he began tocontribute to the “Edinburgh Review ”
a series of brilliant essays thatare unsurpassed in vigor and eloquence Of style, and in knowledgeof literature and history . These at once brought him fame and a fewyears later a seat in Parliament. Here he made a remarkable success ,quickly becoming one of the leaders of the Whig party and receivingin 1834 an appointment to the Supreme Council Of India. On his
return toEngland hewas again elected to Parliament. He served fortwo years in the Cabinet, and on the loss of his seat in 1847, com
menced his greatest work, the History of England from the Accession of James II .” The success Of this history was unprecedented,and in America its sale surpassed that Of any work except the Bible.In 1857 be was created Baron Macaulay of Rothley, and he diedtwo years later, leaving his history unfinished .
GEORGE MACDONALD . Scottish novelist and poet. 1824 -1905 .
Author of many popular stories of Scotland and several volumes ofverse.
GUY HUMPHREYS MCMASTER . Poet and jurist Of New ‘York.
1829—1887.
“Carmen Bellicosum, his most popular poem , was
contributed to the “Knickerbocker Magazine in 1849.
DOLLY MADISON (Dorothea Payne Todd). 1772—1849 . WifeOf James Madison , fourth President of the United States, and formany years a conspicuous figure in Washington society .
FRANCIS MAHONEY. Irish poet, priest, and newspaper correspondent . 1804—1866. The prose and verse that he contributed tomagazines under the pseudonym Of Father Prout was collectedand published after his death as “
Reliques of Father Prout.”
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SIR THOMAS MALORY. Author Of Morte d’
Arthur, a collec
tion and translation of the legends of King Arthur and his court, andthe first notable prose romance in English . Nothing is known Of
Malory, except that hewas a knight and that he completed his greatwork in 1469 or 1470.
“Morte d’
A rthur”
was printed by Caxton,
the first English printer, in 1485 and has been the source Of mostsubsequent versions of the King Arthur stories.
FLORENCE A . MERR IAM (Mrs . Florence Merriam Bailey).Ornithologist. Born inNewYork State, in 1863. Author Of
“Birdsthrough an Opera-Glass,” ‘Birds Of Village and Field,
” “Handbookof Birds of the Western United States,
”
etc.
HUGH MILLER . Scottish geologist and writer. 1802- 1856. Whileworking as a stone-mason he studied geology, and he laterwrote several popular books on that subject. He also wrote a volume of poemsand My Schools and Schoolmasters,
”
an interesting account of hisearly life.JOAQUIN MILLER . American author. Born in Indiana, in 1841.
Went West while a boy and was successively miner, express messenger, editor, lawyer, and judge . Since 1887 he has lived in Californiaand devoted himself to literary work.
OLIVE THORNE MILLER (Harriet Mann Miller). Born at
Auburn, N. Y. , in 1831. A sHarriet Mann she beganwriting over thepseudonym “Olive Thome, and when , in 1854, shewas married toWatts T. Miller, she added the Miller
” to her pen-name. Authorof many excellent bird books and stories for young people, including“Kristy ’s Queer Christmas,” “What Happened to Barbara,
” TheFirstandSecondBooksOfBirds,” TrueBirdStories,
” BirdWays,”
“The Bird our Brother,”
etc.
JOHN MILTON. Born in London , in 1608. After his graduationfrom Cambridge University , he passed six years on his father’scountry estate, writing while there “
Il Penseroso,”
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at Harvard he chose for his lifework the writing of a history of theFrench power in North America and devoted all his energies to pre
paration forhis great task, visiting during vacations the scenes Of thestruggle, studying the Indians and in 1846 spending several monthswith the Dakotas among the Black Hills and the Rocky Mounta ins.
Despite ill health caused by over-exertion, he pushed forward thework, publishing in 1851 The Conspiracy of Pontiac,” followed by“Pioneers of France in the New World,
” “The Jesuits in NorthAmerica,
” “L a Salle and the Discovery Of the Great West,
” “TheOld Regime in Canada,
” Count Frontenac and NewFrance underLouis XIV,
” Montcalm andWolfe,”and
“A Half-Century of Confl ict .
”
As his eyesight failed him he was obliged to dictate much ofhis work, but in spite of all difi cul ties he succeeded in completing theseries and in producing a history that has rarely been surpassed invividness and interest. He died at Jamaica Plain , Mass ., in 1893, a
year after the publication of the last volume.
JAMES PARTON . American writer Of biography. 1822- 1891.
Author of Lives of Voltaire, Franklin, Jefferson, Andrew Jackson,
and many others.
1791- 1852. Author of many successful plays, but now rememberedchiefly by his song “Home, Sweet Home,
” written in 1823, whi le inEurope, for his play
“ Clari, the Maid of Milan .
”In 1842 he was
appointed American Consul in Tunis, Africa, and he died there tenyears later.
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY (Mrs. L. S . Marks). American writer and instructor in English literature at Wellesley College.Author of “Old Greek Folk Stories,” “The Book Of the Little Past(verse for children),
“The Piper” (a drama),“Singing Leaves
(poems), and other volumes of plays and verse.
NORA PERRY. Born in Massachusetts, in 1882; died in 1896.
people.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (Mrs. Herbert D . Ward). American writer and philanthropist . Born in Andover, Mass., in 1844
died in 1911. Author of “The GatesAjar,” “Hedged In,
” “A Singular Life, and many other novels, several books of short stories, twovolumes of verse, and several stories for girls, of which the best are“The Gypsy Series .
”
PLINY, THE YOUNGER (Cains Plinius Ce cilius Secundus)Roman author and public Oflicial . Born, 62 A .D . He held many highoflices andwas reputed to be one Of the most learned men Of his age,but is now remembered for the collections of letters that he left, ofwhich the most interesting are twodescribing the eruption ofV esuviusandone asking the Emperor Trajan for advice as to the treatment ofthe newand stubborn sect Of Christians.
PLUTARCH. Greek writer and scholar. Born in Boeotia, 46 A .D.
He studied in Athens, visited Egypt and Ita ly, remaining for sometime in Rome, where he gave lectures and enjoyed the friendship ofprominent men, returned to Greece, and devoted the remainder Ofhis life to literature and to conversation with the friends and discipleswho had gathered around him. The best known Of his writings arethe Lives of prominent Greeks and Romans. These supplied Shakespeare with several Of his plots and have had a wide influence in literature. Besides the Lives he wrote many volumes of essays and dialognes. His death occurred between 120and 130A .D.
EDGAR ALLAN POE . Born in Boston, Mass. , in 1809. He wasadopted as a child by amerchant of R ichmond, V a . by whom hewasgiven a good education both in America and England . After leaving the University of Virginia, he was put to work in his adoptedfather’s Ofi ce, but business was distasteful to him and he soon es
caped to Boston, where he published, in 1827, his first volume of
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poems . In the same year he enlisted in the army, where he servedfor two years with honor. At the end of that time he entered WestPoint, but was soon dismissed for neglect of duties. His adoptedfather soon after died, leaving him nothing, and henceforth Poe
’
s
life was a continual strugg le with poverty. He lived at differenttimes in Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, andNew York, servingon the editorial stafl s of various magazines and making a scanty living with his pen . His death occurred in Baltimore, in 1849.
Poe’s work has had a profound influence on literature throughouttheworld and particularly in France. Annabel Lee,
” “The Raven,
”
“The Haunted Palace,” “The City in the Sea ,
” “ToHelen,
”
and a
few more of his poems are unsurpassed in American literature forbeauty and magic Of sound, his tales of fantasy stand alone inimaginative power, and his detective stories are the best of their kindever written.
MAR GAR ET JUNKINS PRESTON . American author. 1825
1897 Born in Philadelphia ; resided in Virginia and Maryland. Au
thor Of “Old Songs andNew,
” Colonial Ballads,”
and several othervolumes of verse.
LOUISE DE LA RAMEE (Ouida). English novelist . Born in 1839.
The last years of her life were spent in Florence, where she died in1908. Author Of several volumes Of stories for children and of manynovels, of which the best is Under Two Flags.
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RODOLPH ER IC RASPE . Born in Hanover, Germany, in 1737.
Made a reputation as a mineralogist and published several books ;was accused of theft and fled to England in 1775 , where he held various positions and continued to write books and catalogues on scien
tific subjects . In 1785 , while short of money , he published in London Baron Munchausen ’
s Narrative Of hisMarvellous Travels andCampaigns in Russia,
”
a collection of absurdly impossible stories,partly composed Of tales he had heard in his youth from an old sol
dier of that name, and in part of material taken from various jestbooks, etc. The work was immensely popular, and many edi tionswere issued. Most of these were enlarged by the publishers by theaddition Of similar stories culled from ancient and modern literature,so that the work Of Raspe constitutes only a small part of thematerial now published under his name.
AGNES REPPLIER . American essayist . Born in 1855 at Philadelphia and educated at the Convent of the SacredHeart, Torresdale,Pa. Author Of several volumes Of unusually del ightful and brilliantessays, including In the Dozy Hours,
” “ In Our Convent Days,”
“Essays in Idleness,”etc .
CHAR LES G . D . ROBERTS. Canadian poet and story-writer.Born in New Brunswick, in 1860, and now living in New York. Hewas for several years professor in King’s College, Nova Scotia, resigning in 1895 to devote himself to literature. Author of “Heart ofthe Ancient Wood,
” “The Kindred of the Wild,”
and other storiesof animal life that are both interesting and true to nature, severalnovels and a few volumes of verse.
SAMUEL ROGERS . English poet . 1763—1855 . A man Of wealthand hospitality , he played a prominent part for many years in theliterary and social life Of London, enjoying the friendship Of most Ofthe contemporary writers. He published several volumes of poems,of which “The Pleasures Of Memory ”
is the most famous.
JOHN RUSKIN . English author, art critic, and reformer. Born inLondon, in 1819, of a wealthy family, and graduated from Oxford.
In 1843 he published the first volumes of Modern Painters,”a revo
lutionary work on art and artists that had a great influence and directly resulted in the Pre-Raphaelite movement in painting. Thiswas followed by many volumes of essays and lectures on art , literature, and political economy, Of which the most famous are Ses ameand Lilies ,
” “Ethics Of theDust,”and
“The Crown Of Wild Olive.”
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He lectured with great success, was for several years professor of artat Oxford, and spent his fortune in philanthropic and educationalwork. He died in 1900.
MAR GARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (born Munson). American poet, journalist, and writer for children . Born in 1838, inNewRochelle, N. Y . ; died in 1912. She served on the editorial staffs ofHarper’s Young People,
” “Harper’s Bazar,” and othermagazines,and published several volumes of es says and verse.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE . American poet. Born in Vermont, in1816; died in 1887. Author of several volumes of humorous verse.
SIR WALTER SCOTT . Born in Edinburgh, in 1771. Studied inthe University of Edinburgh , was admitted to the bar, and in 1799was appointed sheriff . In his spare time he began the writing Of
poetry, publishing in 1802 the first volumes of his “Border Minstrelsy
”
and three years later “The L ay Of the Last Minstrel,”
a
work that met with an unprecedented success. During the next tenyears he wrote “Marmion,
” “The Lady of the Lake,” “Rokeby,
”
and several more narrative poems , besides editing the works ofDryden, Swift, and others. In 1814 he turned from verse tonovelwriting and in “Waverley surpassed even the splendid success ofhis earlier poems. This was followed in rapid succession by “
GuyMannering,
” “The Antiquary ,” Old Mortality , ” “ Ivanhoe,
”
“Quentin Durward,” “The Talisman , and the rest of the Waverley
Novels . During this time he built his famous mansion at Abbotsford,where he entertained with lavish hospitality . In 1826 by the failureof a publishing house in which he was partner, he was involved tothe extent Of over a million dollars. Determined that no one shouldsuffer loss, he resolutely set to work to pay Off the creditors, andwithin the next two years realized for them nearly Thetaskwas too great, however, and his health gaveway . A trip to Italyon board a man-of-war that the government had placed at his dis
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posal failed to benefit him , and in 1832 he returned to Abbotsfordto die.
HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER . Author and editor of Boston.
1838—1902. Best known for his popular books for young people,“Seven Little People,
” “The Bodley Books,” The Children ’
s
Book , ” etc. He edited for several years the “AtlanticMonthly and
published notable volumes of essays and biographies, of which thebest are his Lives of Washington and of James Russell Lowell .
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . The world’s greatest poet and
dramatist. Born in 1564 at Stratford-ou-Avon, the son Of a prosperous glover and the third child in a family of eight. He was broughtup in the quiet English countryside, married at eighteen, and in 1585
or 1586went to London , where for seven years nothing is known ofhim . In 1592 he is mentioned as a rising actor and had probably already commenced the writing of plays. In 1596his onb' son died, andin the following year he began the purchase of an estate in his nativetown. Having prospered as an actor and dramatist, he retired toStratford about 1611 and lived there quietly until his death, whichoccurred in 1616.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. One of the greatest of English lyricpoets . Born in 1792 of an old English family . Hewas expelled fromOd ord for publishing a tract on atheism . He married at twenty, leda wandering life for several years in England and Ireland, went toItaly , and in 1822was drowned through the overturning of a pleasureboat. Besides his longer and more important poems, “Queen Mab,
”
“The R evolt of Islam ,
” “Prometheus Unbound, etc he wrotemany odes and lyrics of haunting beauty .
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN . Educator and poet of NewYork . Born in 1860. At present professor in Columbia University .
Author of “Lyrics for a Lute,” “Little-Folk Ly rics,
”
and other volumes of verse.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Born in Edinburgh , in 1850.
He studied law, but turned to literature, contributing to magazinesthe stories and essays afterwards published as
“The New ArabianNights ,
” “V irginibus Puerisque, etc. In 1879 he journeyed to
America , and he spent two years in California, where he married .
Success came with the publication in 1883 of “Treasure Island,”
a
thrilling tale of adventure. This was followed by “Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde,”
and by “Kidnapped,
” “David Balfour,”
and TheMaster of Ballantrae,
” three vivid stories of Scotland . Always a
semi-invalid , he set out in 1888 to the South Seas in quest of healthand settled in Samoa, where he died in 1894 . Beside the works mentioned,
he is the author of “The Merry Men, and Other Tales, ”
Prince Otto,” The Wrecker,”
and other novels, several volumesof travel and essays, a volume of poems,
“A Child’s Garden ofVerse,
”
etc.
JONATHAN SWIFT. The greatest of English satirists . Born inDublin, in 1667. He went to England at the age of twenty-one,served for several years as secretary to SirWilliam Temple, a notedstatesman and writer, was appointed a vicar of the Church of England and published “A Tale of a Tub,
” the greatest of his satiricalworks . In 1711 hewas made editor of the “Examiner,
” the organ ofthe Tory party in England, holding for three years a conspicuousplace in society and politics . On the death of Queen Anne, he wasappointed Dean of St. Patrick
’
s in Dublin , and in 1724 by the publication Of the Drapier letters (an attack on the injustice done to theoppressed Irish), he became the hero of Ireland. Soon after, heachieved his greates t success in Gulliver’s Travels,
”
a story Of
wonderful adventures written as a satire on mankind, but now bestknown as a children’
s classic. He died in 1745 .
EVA MARCH TAPPAN Educator and writer ofWorcester, Mass.
Born in 1854 . Editor of “The Children ’
sHour and author of many
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popular books for young people, including In the Days Of Alfredthe Great,
” Old Ballads in Prose, ” “England’s Story ,” “
Our
Country ’s Story,” “American Hero Stories,
” “ Story of the GreekPeople,
” “When Knights Were Bold,”
etc.
NAHUM TATE . Born in Dublin , in 1652. Poet Laureate Of England from 1692 until his death in 1715 . Except for the beautifulhymn While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night,” his versehas long since been forgotten.
ANN AND JANE TAYLOR . English writers of verse for children.
Authors of several volumes, of which the best known are OriginalHymns for Infant Minds .
”
Ann was born in 1782 and died in 1866;Jane was born in 1783 and died in 1824.SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNENT. British traveler, politician,and writer. Born in Belfast, Ire land, in 1804 ; died in 1869. Authorof several books on Ceylon , volumes of travel , etc.
AL FRED , LORD TENNYSON. One of the greatest of Englishpoets . Born in Lincolnshire, in 1809 , and educated at CambridgeUniversity , issuing while in college his first volume of verse. By thepublication in 1842 of a collection that included “Locksley Hall ,”
Break, Break Break,”
and other of his best shorter poems, he forthefirst time gamed public recognition and a fame that steadily grew,
until, at his death , hewas regarded as among the most notable figuresof the Victorian era. Hewas made poet laureate in 1850 and a peerin 1884 . His lifewas passed quietly at his homes in the Isle Of Wightand at Aldworth , Surrey , at which latter place he died, in 1892
,
His longest and most important poems are“ Idylls of the King,
”
“In Memoriam ,
”
and“The Princess.
” He also wrote many lyricsand songs of great beauty and a number of dramas Of which the bestare
“Becket and “Queen Mary.
”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. Born in Calcutta, in
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1811, coming to England at the age Of six . He was educated at theCharterhouse School, a vivid picture of which he has left in
“TheNewcomes, and at Cambridge. He traveled on the Continent, studied art in Paris, married, settled in London, and began to contributeto the magazines the humorous sketches afterwards published as
“The YellOWplush Papers,” The Paris Sketch-Book,
”
etc. He alsowrote extensively for “Punch .
” In 1846 “Vanity Fair ” appearedand immediately placed its author among the greatest of Englishnovelists . This was followed within a few years by “Pendennis ,
”
“Henry Esmond,” “The Newcomes,
”
and“The Virginians.
”
In
1852 and 1855 he made successful lecturing-tours in America. Hedied in 1863.
CELIA THAXTER . 1836—1894 . An American poet who spent hergirlhood and much of her after life on the Isles of Shoals, where herfather was lighthouse-keeper. Author of several volumes Of poemsand verse for children .
EDITH M. THOMAS. American poet . Born in Ohio, in 1854 . Au
thor Of The Inverted Torch,” In the Young World,
”
and severalother volumes of poems.
MAUR ICE THOMPSON. Poet and novelist of Indiana. 1844
1901. Author of “A Tallahassee Girl,” “Stories of the Cherokee
Hills, and several volumes of verse.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU. The greatest of American naturewriters. Born in Concord , Mass. , in 1817, and graduated from Harvard. He taught school for a short time and lived for a few years atEmerson’
s house. During most of his life he supported himself byodd jobs of surveying, pencil-making , etc., devoting the greater partOf his time to nature observation and writing. The best Of his worksand one of the most original and delightful books in American literature is “Walden,
”an account of two years spent in a cabin byWal
den Pond in Concord. Among his other books are “AWeek on the
Concord and Merrimack R ivers,” “The Maine Woods, and Cape
Cod.
” He died in 1862. See Lives by H. S. Salt and F. B . Sanbom .
BRADFORD TORREY. American nature writer and essayist.Born in Weymouth, Mass., in 1843. He lived near Boston till 1909 ,when he removed to Santa Barbara, Cal . Author of Birds in theBush ,
” “A Rambler’s Lease,”
and other volumes of accurate anddelightfully written sketches Of out-of-door life.
JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBR IDGE. American story-writerand poet. Born in Ogden, N. Y. , in 1827. Taught school in Illinois,worked as a journalist in New York and Boston, and is now living inArlington, Mass. Author of many excellent stories for boys, ofwhich the best are “The Drummer Boy,
” “Cudjo
’
s Cave,” “The
Three Scouts ,” “The Jack Hazard Series, and
“The Tide-MillSeries. He has also written several noteworthy volumes of verse andan autobiography entitled “
The Story OfMy Life.”
VIRGIL (Publius V ergilius Maro). The greatest Of Roman poets.Born near Mantua, B .C . 70 the son of a small farmer. He studiedin Rome, but lost his father s estate in the turmoil of the CivilWar.
Through the generosity of Maecenas, a wealthy patron of literature,hewas relieved of his financial difi cul ties and allowed to devote himself to study and writing. In B .C. 19 he set out for Greece and hedied shortly after in Athens. His works include the E neid, thenational epic of Rome and one of the world’s greatest poems, theEclogues, and the Georgics, a poem on agriculture and country life.There is a good translation of the E neid by Cranch .
ISAAC WATTS. English clergyman and hymn-writer. 1674—1748.
Author Of many theological works and of several volumes of hymns
WILLIAM WESTAL L. English writer. Born in 1834. Author ofseveral volumes of travel and many popular novels.
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HENR Y KIRK WHITE . English poet. 1785—1806. Two volumesof his poems were published after his early death by his friendRobert Southey .
R ICHARDWHITEING . English journalist and novelist. Born in1840. Author of several popular stories , Of which the best known is“NO. 5 John a vivid picture of life in the London slums
WALT WHITMAN. Born on Long Island, in 1819 . He was educated in New York, became a newspaper writer and edi tor, and in1855 published his first volume of poems ,
“Leaves Of Grass ,”
a bookthat attracted little attention until praised by Emerson , but whichhas since been recognized throughout the English-speaking worldas containing some of the most splendidly vital and inspiring of modern poems. He served through the Civil War as an army nurse, wasgiven a clerkship in the Treasury Department atWashington , and in
1873 moved to Camden , N . J where he lived quietly until his deathin 1892. See his Life by Bliss Perry .
JOHANN RUDOLF WYSS . Swiss writer and professor. 1781
1830. Author of “The Swiss Family Robinson , a young people’sclassic and the best of the many imitations Of “Robinson Crusoe.
”
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER . Born at Haverhill , Mass . , in
1807 , of a Quaker family . In his early life he served as editor ofvarious newspapers and magazines , vigorously supporting the abolitionist cause in verse and prose. In 1840 the ofi ce Of the Pennsyl
vania Freeman ,
”
an anti-slavery paper Of which he was then editor,was sacked and burned by a mob . On his return to New England,he made his home in Amesbury , Mass. , where he passed the rest ofhis life. He died in 1892.
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN (Mrs. George C . R iggs). Born in
Philadelphia, in 1857, and educated at Andover, Mass. She went to
California in 1876, and organized at San Francisco the first freekindergarten on the Pacific, meeting with remarkable succes s as a
teacher. In 1888 she moved to New York City , where she has sincelived , passing the summer at Hollis, Maine, among the scenes she hasmade famous in her delightful stories Of New England life. Author of“Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm ,
”
one of the best of all stories Of
girlhood,“New Chronicles Of R ebecca,
”
a continuation,
“MotherCarey’s Chickens,
” “The Diary of a Goose Girl,” “The Birds’
Christmas Carol ,” “Timothy ’s Quest, ” and other excellent stories ;
and of Penelope ’s Experiences (travel in England, Scotland, andIreland). With her sister, Nora A . Smith, she has written
“Children ’
s R ights ”
and“The Story Hour ” and edited “The Crimson
Classics,”
a collection of poems and stories for young people.
CHARLES WOLFE . Irish clergyman and poet. 1791—1823. Hismost famous poem , The Burial of Sir John Moore, was first published anonymously in a newspaper of 1816.
FRANCIS C . WOODWORTH. 1812—1859. Author of UncleFrank’s Home Stories ” and other tales and poems for children thatwere once quite popular.
WILLIAMWORDSWORTH . Born in Cumberland, Bug , in 1770.
After his graduation from Cambridge University, he spent sometime on the Continent, pirblishing shortly after his return to England his first poems. In 1797 he settled in rural England near thehome of Coleridge , and he soon after published with him a volumeentitled “Lyrical Ballads ” that marked an epoch in English versewriting. After a winter in Germany, Wordsworth settled at Grasmere in the Lake District of England, where he lived quietly, makingoccasional journeys to the Continent and tours of Scotland and
England. Hewas made poet laureate in 1843 and died seven yearslater.
INDEX
Cornwall.The Sea, 64 .
Count of Monte Cristo,Country of the Dwarfs.38 .
Coll
antry of the Pointed Fin . Jewett..
Buccaneers and Marooners of America. Py le. 49 .
Buccaneers andPirate s of our Coasts ,Stockton . 49 .
Building the Nation.Coma. 50.
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Home. Sweet Home, Payne. 59 .
Hood. 1 Remember. I Remember. 57.
of Pompeii , Bulv er-Lyt
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the Grail and the Passing of A rthur,26; Wonder Clock , 13.
Py le. Katherine. Care less Janeothei'
oTalu . 64 ; In the Green
est,