Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 4

Journeys Through Bookland

Volume Four by Charles H. Sylvester
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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 FOUR

CONTENTS
BETTER THAN GOLD ......................................... Father Ryan
My HEART LEAPS UP.................................. William Wordsworth
THE BAREFOOT BOY ............................. John Greenleaf Whittier
RAIN ON THE ROOF ....................................... Coates Kinney
CID CAMPEADOR
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG ..................... Oliver
Goldsmith
MOTHER'S WAY ............................................. Father Ryan
SONG OF THE BROOK .................................... Alfred Tennyson
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ........................... Grace E.
Sellon
FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS ....................... Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
To H. W. L. ..................................... James Russell Lowell
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH .................... Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS ................. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
A DOG OF FLANDERS ................................. Louise de la Ramee

ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY ................................... Anna McCaleb
NEARER HOME .............................................. Phoebe Cary
PICTURES OF MEMORY ........................................ Alice Cary
THE ESCAPE FROM PRISON ........................... Sir Samuel W. Baker
STORIES OF THE CREATION
THE DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN ........................ Cardinal
Newman
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER .................................. Alexander Pope
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP .......................... Robert
Browning
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE .................................. Grace E. Sellon
THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS........................... Nathaniel Hawthorne
LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND ..
Felicia Browne Hemans
THE SUNKEN TREASURE .............................. Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE HUTCHINSON MOB ............................... Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE BOSTON MASSACRE .............................. Nathaniel Hawthorne
SHERIDAN'S RIDE ................................. Thomas Buchanan Read
JOAN OF ARC ........................................ Thomas de Quincey
PANCRATIUS .......................................... Cardinal Wiseman
ALFRED THE GREAT ..................................... Charles Dickens
THE BURIAL OF MOSES .......................... Cecil Frances Alexander
BERNARDO DEL CARPIO ................................... Felicia Hemans
DAVID
CHEVY-CHASE ........................................... Richard Sheale
THE ATTACK ON THE CASTLE ............................ Sir Walter Scott
THE DEATH OF HECTOR ............................... From Homer's Iliad
THE WOODEN HORSE ................................ From Vergil's Aeneid
JOHN BUNYAN
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ................................... John Bunyan
AWAY ............................................ James Whitcomb Riley
LITTLE GIFFIN OF TENNESSEE
LITTLE BREECHES ............................................. John Hay
THE YARN OF THE "NANCY BELL" ........................... W. S. Gilbert
KATEY'S LETTER ......................................... Lady Dufferin
THE ARICKARA INDIANS ............................... Washington Irving

ILLUSTRATIONS
REBECCA AT THE WINDOW (Color Plate) Louis Grell
THE BAREFOOT BOY Iris Weddell White
RAIN ON THE ROOF Lucille Enders
RODRIGO AND THE LEPER Donn P. Crane
MARTIN PELAEZ SLEW A GOOD KNIGHT Donn P. Crane
ALVAR FANEZ WENT His WAY TO CASTILL Donn P. Crane
THE DEFEAT OF ALMOFALEZ Donn P. Crane
THEY WENT OUT FROM VALENCIA AT MIDNIGHT Donn P.
Crane
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (Halftone)
HOME OF LONGFELLOW AT CAMBRIDGE (Halftone)
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Herbert N. Rudeen
HE BOUND HER TO THE MAST G. H. Mitchell
RESCUE OF PATRASCHE Holling Clancy
NELLO AND PATRASCHE Holling Clancy
NELLO LEFT HIS PICTURE AT THE DOOR Holling Clancy
ALICE CARY (Halftone)
IN THAT DIM OLD FOREST Mildred Lyon
ANCHOR Louis Grell
HE SLIPPED A GUINEA INTO HER HAND Louis Grell
HE WRENCHED THE BAR ASUNDER Louis Grell
LEONTINE Louis Grell
"WE'VE GOT YOU RATISBON!" Herbert N. Rudeen
HAWTHORNE'S WAYSIDE (Halftone)
HANDFUL AFTER HANDFUL WAS THROWN IN Mildred Lyon
UP CAME TREASURE IN ABUNDANCE Herbert N. Rudeen
"FATHER, DO YOU NOT HEAR?" Herbert N. Rudeen
THE RIOTERS BROKE INTO THE HOUSE Herbert N. Rudeen
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (Halftone)
THE SOLDIERS FIRED Herbert N. Rudeen
THE STEED SWEPT ON Herbert N. Rudeen
JOAN OF ARC (Halftone)
ALFRED ALLOWS THE CAKES TO BURN Louis Grell
DAVID MEETS GOLIATH Louis Grell
SAUL SOUGHT TO SMITE DAVID Louis Grell
JONATHAN SHOOTS THE ARROWS Louis Grell

DAVID AND JONATHAN Louis Grell
THE MAN RUNNETH ALONE Louis Grell
"IS THE YOUNG MAN, ABSALOM, SAFE?"