Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 7

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Title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Author: Charles H. Sylvester
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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