So it is; yet let us sing
Honour to the old bowstring!
Honour to the bugle-horn!
Honour to the woods unshorn!
Honour to the Lincoln green! (p. 124)
Honour to the archer keen!
Honour to tight little John,
And the horse he rode upon!
Honour to bold Robin Hood,
Sleeping in the underwood:
Honour to Maid Marian,
And to all the Sherwood clan!
Though their days have hurried by
Let us two a burden try.
KEATS.
BALDWIN, JAMES.
The Story of Roland.
Scribner. 1.50
This romance tells of the great Charlemagne, and of his warriors,
Roland and Oliver and Ogier the Dane, all companions in arms. As James
Baldwin states, Roland is unknown to history, yet he is the typical
knight, the greatest hero of the Middle Ages. The story is culled from
the song-writers and poets of five centuries and of as many languages.
BALDWIN, JAMES.
The Story of Siegfried.
Illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Scribner. 1.50
From the many versions, Elder and Younger Edda, Volsunga Saga, and
Nibelungen Lied, including modern sources, Mr. Baldwin has reshaped
this ancient tale. Though he sometimes draws material from his own
imagination, the essential parts of the myth remain unaltered.
CHURCH, A.J. (p. 125)
The Æneid for Boys and Girls.
Macmillan. 1.50
The famous wanderings are retold from Virgil in simple language.
Twelve illustrations in color accompany the text.
CHURCH, A.J.
The Iliad for Boys and Girls.
Macmillan. 1.50
In a straightforward manner Mr. Church relates the incidents of the
great siege. The volume contains twelve colored illustrations.
HARRIS, J.C.
*Nights with Uncle Remus.
Houghton. 1.50
This second book of folk-lore is supplementary to Uncle Remus; His
Songs and His Sayings, and gives a large number of additional myths
and legends of the South.
HUTCHINSON, W.M.L.
The Golden Porch.
Longmans. 1.40
In adding one more to the innumerable collections of stories from
the Greek, I have hoped to break fresh ground by reproducing the
myths of Pindar's Odes, as far as possible in a free translation,
and with such additions only as were needed to form a framework.
Some of these legends are already wholly or partly familiar, but
several will be new, I think, to English readers.--_Preface._
These old tales are rendered in exquisite language. They include,
among others, the stories of Tantalus, the Heavenly Twins, Jason, (p. 126)
and the Pansy Baby. The poet was bidden to prepare the Ode, from which
this last story is taken, in honor of a friend's victory in the Olympic
Games. The illustrations are in terra-cotta and black.
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
The Second Jungle Book.
Century. 1.50
Telling more of Mowgli, the child of the jungle, and his brethren the
wild creatures of the forest; together with other marvellous animal
stories.
"Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty
are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and
the hump is--Obey!"
MARVIN, F.S., R.J.C. MAYOR, and F.M. STAWELL (Editors).
The Adventures of Odysseus.
Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Dutton. 1.50
It has been our aim in this book to reproduce the substance of
Homer's Odyssey in simple modern English. We have not hesitated
to omit and compress where we thought fit, but we have done our
best to make a faithful translation within our limits, and to
keep what we could of the Homeric spirit.--_Preface._
PYLE, HOWARD.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Illustrated by the Author.
Scribner. 3.00
Henry II and Queen Eleanor, the Lord Bishop of Hereford, the (p. 127)
Sheriff of Nottingham, and Richard of the Lion's Heart, come forth
from the land of mingled fact and fancy, with Robin Hood and his merry
train, and live for us. While the text of this luxurious volume is
dignified and somewhat archaic, children delight in reading it,
nevertheless. There are many full-page illustrations.
POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES ADAPTED FROM
GREAT AUTHORS
But if he is a real classic, if his work belongs to the class of
the very best (for this is the true and right meaning of the word
classic, classical), then the great thing for us is to feel and
enjoy his work as deeply as ever we can, and to appreciate the
wide difference between it and all work which has not the same
high character.
MATTHEW ARNOLD.
CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE.
*Don Quixote of the Mancha.
Edited by E.A. Parry.
Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Lane. 1.50
Let it be understood that all I have attempted to do is to tell a
well-known story in print, as one who loves it would seek to tell
it in words to those around his own fireside; in the hope that
some may gather from this story that there is a vast storehouse
of humour and wisdom awaiting them in the book
itself.--_Preface._
HOLMES, O.W. (p. 128)
*The One Hoss Shay, and Companion Poems.
Illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Houghton. 1.50
How the Old Horse Won the Bet, and The Broomstick Train, are the other
poems.
"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."
MacLEOD, MARY.
Stories from the Faerie Queene.
Illustrated by A.G. Walker.
Stokes. 1.50
Do we not most of us belong to the group "who at present know nothing
or next to nothing of what is certainly one of the masterpieces of
English literature"?
The tale of Spenser's great poem is simply related in acceptable
prose.
NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
Heart of Oak Books. Volume IV. Fairy Stories and
Classic Tales.
Heath. .45
The imagination is the supreme intellectual faculty, and yet it
is of all the one which receives least attention in our common
systems of education.--_Preface._