A Mother's List of Books for ChildrenA.C. McClurg & Company, 1909 - 250 pagina's A liste of recommended readings for children, intended for home use and arranged by age, not school grade. Included in the list are fairy tales that are free from horrible happenings. Omitted are all writings which tolerate cruelty or unkindness to animals. |
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Adventures Æsop Alice Barber Stephens American Book AMUSEMENTS AND HANDICRAFT Appleton Arthur Rackham beautiful BIOGRAPHY birds black and white boys and girls Brooklyn Public Library BROOKS C. E. Editor CALDECOTT CARNEGIE LIBRARY Century chapters charming child COLLECTIONS OF POETRY color plates CRANE delightful described Doubleday edition England English F. J. FURNIVALL Fables fairy FAIRY TALES famous FOLK-LORE full-page fully illustrated Ginn given gives Golliwogg Hackmatack Harper Heart of Oak Heath Heroes Houghton Illus Indian interesting Introduction John King King Arthur land language legends lives Longmans Lothrop Macmillan Miss mother narrative Ojibwa OUT-OF-DOOR BOOKS photographs pictures in color plates in color poems POETRY AND PROSE Preface Pseudonym Putnam RANDOLPH Illustrator readers rhymes Scribner simple sketches songs STORIES ADAPTED tale tells THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON tion told trated TRAVEL twelve colored verses volume contains WALTER Illustrator wonderful written YORK STATE LIBRARY
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Pagina 183 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Pagina 180 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Pagina 69 - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Pagina 173 - When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course lad, And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among; God grant you find one face there, You loved when all was young.
Pagina 205 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Pagina 121 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Pagina 220 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Pagina 56 - ... sailing And shining so round and low ; You were bright ! ah bright ! but your light is failing — You are nothing now but a bow. You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven, That God has hidden your face ? 1 hope if you have you will soon be forgiven, And shine again in your place. O velvet bee, you're a dusty fellow, You've powdered your legs with gold...
Pagina 202 - Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Pagina 126 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.