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Books for Children, by Charles and Mary Lamb

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Title: Books for Children The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3
Author: Charles and Mary Lamb
Release Date: November 19, 2003 [EBook #10130]
Language: English
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BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
BY
CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
EDITED BY
E.V. LUCAS
WITH A FRONTISPIECE

INTRODUCTION
The present volume contains all the stories and verses for children which we know Charles and Mary Lamb to have written. The text is that of the first or second editions, as explained in the Notes. The Poetry for Children and Prince Dorus have been set up from the late Andrew W. Tuer's facsimiles. The large edition of this volume contains all the original pictures, together with the apochryphal Beauty and the Beast.
In Mr. Bedford's design for the cover of this edition certain Elian symbolism will be found. The upper coat of arms is that of Christ's Hospital, where Lamb was at school; the lower is that of the Inner Temple, where he was born and spent many years. The figures at the bells are those which once stood out from the fa?ade of St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, and are now in Lord Londesborough's garden in Regent's Park. Lamb shed tears when they were removed. The tricksy sprite and the candles (brought by Betty) need no explanatory words of mine.
E.V.L.

CONTENTS
TALES FROM SHAKESPEAR
PAGE Preface 1 The Tempest 3 A Midsummer Night's Dream 13 The Winter's Tale 23 Much Ado About Nothing 33 As You Like It 44 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 58 The Merchant of Venice 69 Cymbeline 81 King Lear 92 Macbeth 106 All's Well that Ends Well 115 The Taming of the Shrew 126 The Comedy of Errors 136 Measure for Measure 148 Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 161 Timon of Athens 173 Romeo and Juliet 184 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 199 Othello 213 Pericles, Prince of Tyre 225
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES
Preface 240
CHAPTER I.
The Cicons--The fruit of the lotos tree--Polyphemus and the Cyclops--The kingdom of the winds, and god ?olus's fatal present--The L?strygonian man-eaters 241
CHAPTER II.
The House of Circe--Men changed into beasts--The voyage to hell--The banquet of the dead 250
CHAPTER III.
The song of the Sirens--Scylla and Charybdis--The oxen of the Sun--The judgment--The crew killed by lightning 262
CHAPTER IV.
The Island of Calypso--Immortality refused 269
CHAPTER V.
The tempest--The sea-bird's gift--The escape by swimming--The sleep in the woods 273
CHAPTER VI.
The Princess Nausicaa--The washing--The game with the ball--The Court of Ph?acia and king Alcinous. 277
CHAPTER VII.
The songs of Demodocus--The convoy home--The mariners transformed to stone--The young shepherd. 283
CHAPTER VIII.
The change from a king to a beggar--Eum?us and the herdsmen--Telemachus 290
CHAPTER IX.
The queen's suitors--The battle of the beggars--The armour taken down--The meeting with Penelope 301
CHAPTER X.
The madness from above--The bow of Ulysses--The slaughter--The conclusion 308
MRS. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL
Dedication 316 Elizabeth Villiers: The Sailor Uncle 319 Louisa Manners: The Farm House 328 Ann Withers: The Changeling 334 Elinor Forester: The Father's Wedding Day 350 Margaret Green: The Young Mahometan 354 Emily Barton: Visit to the Cousins 360 Maria Howe: The Witch Aunt 368 Charlotte Wilmot: The Merchant's Daughter 375 Susan Yates: First Going to Church 378 Arabella Hardy: The Sea Voyage 384
THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS 389
POETRY FOR CHILDREN
Envy 404 The Reaper's Child 404 The Ride 405 The Butterfly 406 The Peach 407 Chusing a Name 408 Crumbs to the Birds 408 The Rook and the Sparrows 409 Discontent and Quarrelling 410 Repentance and Reconciliation 411 Neatness in Apparel 412 The New-born Infant 412 Motes in the Sun-beams 413 The Boy and the Snake 413 The First Tooth 415 To a River in which a Child was Drowned 416 The First of April 416 Cleanliness 417 The Lame Brother 418 Going into Breeches 419 Nursing 420 The Text 421 The End of May 422 Feigned Courage 424 The Broken Doll 425 The Duty of a Brother 426 Wasps in a Garden 427 What is Fancy? 428 Anger 429 Blindness 429 The Mimic Harlequin 430 Written in the First Leaf of a Child's Memorandum Book 430 Memory 431 The Reproof 432 The Two Bees 432 The Journey from School and to School 434 The Orange 435 The Young Letter-Writer 436 The Three Friends 437 On the Lord's Prayer 442 "Suffer little Children, and Forbid them not, to come unto Me" 443 The Magpye's Nest; or, A Lesson of Docility 445 The Boy and the Sky-lark 447 The Men and Women, and the Monkeys 449