Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 7

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7, by

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Title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Author: Charles H. Sylvester
Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23405]
Language: English
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[Illustration: THE CANOE RACE]

Journeys Through Bookland
A NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
BY CHARLES H. SYLVESTER Author of English and American Literature
VOLUME SEVEN New Edition
[Illustration]
Chicago BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1922 BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

CONTENTS
PAGE THE DAFFODILS William Wordsworth 1 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN William Cullen Bryant 4 TO A MOUSE Robert Burns 5 TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY Robert Burns 8 THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET Samuel Wordsworth 11 BANNOCKBURN Robert Burns 15 BOAT SONG Sir Walter Scott 17 THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY Washington Irving 20 THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Samuel T. Coleridge 29 THE BLACK HAWK TRAGEDY Edwin D. Coe 58 THE PETRIFIED FERN Mary Bolles Branch 77 AN EXCITING CANOE RACE J. Fenimore Cooper 79 THE BUFFALO Francis Parkman 96 THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Alfred Tennyson 147 FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT Robert Burns 149 BREATHES THERE THE MAN Sir Walter Scott 151 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE William Collins 151 QUEEN VICTORIA Anna McCaleb 152 THE RECESSIONAL Rudyard Kipling 164 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Francis Scott Key 167 HOW'S MY BOY? Sydney Dobell 169 THE SOLDIER'S DREAM Thomas Campbell 170 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY James Montgomery 172 THE OLD CONTINENTALS Guy Humphreys McMaster 175 THE PICKET-GUARD Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers 177 MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME Stephen Collins Foster 179 THE FORSAKEN MERMAN Matthew Arnold 180 TOM AND MAGGIE TULLIVER George Eliot 186 A GORILLA HUNT Paul du Chaillu 247 THE CLOUD Percy Bysshe Shelley 257 BRUTE NEIGHBORS Henry David Thoreau 260 ODE TO A SKYLARK Percy Bysshe Shelley 275 THE POND IN WINTER Henry David Thoreau 280 SALMON FISHING Rudyard Kipling 285 WINTER ANIMALS Henry David Thoreau 293 TREES AND ANTS THAT HELP EACH OTHER Thomas Belt 306 THE FAMILY OF MICHAEL AROUT Emile Souvestre 314 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE William Cowper 331 THOSE EVENING BELLS Thomas Moore 340 ANNABEL LEE Edgar Allan Poe 341 THE THREE FISHERS Charles Kingsley 343 THE REAPER'S DREAM Thomas Buchanan Read 345 THE RECOVERY OF THE HISPANIOLA Robert Louis Stevenson 352 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Grace E. Sellon 381 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 391 TO A WATERFOWL William Cullen Bryant 395 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Grace E. Sellon 398 THE CUBES OF TRUTH Oliver Wendell Holmes 406 THE LOST CHILD James Russell Lowell 409 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Grace E. Sellon 411 A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD Elizabeth Barrett Browning 418 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 419 DON QUIXOTE Cervantes 431
PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES 487
For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of Volume X

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE THE CANOE RACE (Color Plate) R. F. Babcock FRONTISPIECE A HOST OF GOLDEN DAFFODILS Albert H. Winkler 2 THE FRINGED GENTIAN G. H. Mitchell 4 THOU NEED NA START AWA Albert H. Winkler 6 ROBERT BURNS (Halftone) 8 THOU BONNY GEM Albert H. Winkler 9 INCLINED TO MY LIPS Herbert N. Rudeen 12 THE NOTARY ENTERS THE CARRIAGE R. F. Babcock 26 HE CANNOT CHOOSE BUT HEAR (Heading) Donn P. Crane 29 I SHOT THE ALBATROSS Donn P. Crane 33 AND STRAIGHT THE SUN WAS FLECKED WITH BARS Donn P. Crane 38 I WATCHED THE WATER-SNAKES Donn P. Crane 42 THEY GROANED, THEY STIRRED, THEY ALL UPROSE Donn P. Crane 45 SLOWLY AND SMOOTHLY WENT THE SKIP (Color Plate) Donn P. Crane 48 "O SHRIEVE ME, SHRIEVE ME, HOLY MAN" Donn P. Crane 55 I PASS FROM LAND TO LAND (Ending) Donn P. Crane 57 BLACK HAWK AND THE TWO RUFFIANS R. F. Babcock 63 THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN CROSSED THE RIVER R. F. Babcock 71 HAWKEYE ON THE TRAIL R. F. Babcock 80 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (Halftone) 82 HAWKEYE R. F. Babcock 85 GRADUALLY I CAME ABREAST OF HIM R. F. Babcock 106 ONE VAST HOST OF BUFFALO R. F. Babcock 125 ON DUNE AND HEADLAND G. H. Mitchell 165 THE LITTLE GRAY CHURCH ON THE WINDY HILL Walter O. Reese 181 "TOM'S COMING HOME!" Herbert N. Rudeen 188 "OH, HE IS CRUEL" Herbert N. Rudeen 199 "IS IT THE TIPSY CAKE, THEN?" Herbert N. Rudeen 206 "HERE, LUCY!" Herbert N. Rudeen 224 "AH, YOU'RE FONDEST O' ME, AREN'T YOU?" Herbert N. Rudeen 243