Some 125 poems from over 60 authors, including Fitzgerald, Shelley,
Shakespeare, Kenneth Grahame, Stevenson, Whitman, Browning, Keats,
Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, William Morris, Maurice Hewlett,
Isaak Walton, William Barnes, Herrick, Dobson, Lamb, Milton, Whittier,
etc., etc.

"A very charming book from cover to cover."--_Dial._

=THE FRIENDLY TOWN=

A little book for the urbane, compiled by E. V. LUCAS.

Over 200 selections in verse and prose from 100 authors, including:
James R. Lowell, Burroughs, Herrick, Thackeray, Scott, Vaughn, Milton,
Cowley, Browning, Stevenson, Henley, Longfellow, Keats, Swift,
Meredith, Lamb, Lang, Dobson, Fitzgerald, Pepys, Addison, Kemble,
Boswell, Holmes, Walpole, and Lovelace.

"Would have delighted Charles Lamb."--_The Nation._

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=A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN=

Over 200 poems representing some 80 authors. Compiled by E. V. LUCAS.
With decorations by F. D. BEDFORD. _Revised edition_. $2.00. Library
edition, $1.00 net.

"We know of no other anthology for children so complete and well
arranged."--_Critic._

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Transcriber's Note

This ebook retains the spelling variations of the original text.

Advertisements from the front of the original text have been moved to
the back of this ebook. Ellipses have been standardized.

The following typographical corrections have been made to this text:

Table of Contents: Changed CONRADE to CONRAD
(CONRAD VEREKER'S)

Page 98: Changed heathrug to hearthrug
(side of the hearthrug)

Page 110: Changed things to thing
(this sort of thing)

Page 119: Changed Sallikin to Sallykin
(My Sallykin has been)

Page 132: Removed duplicate word 'to'
(one word to save us)

Page 169: Changed Rosy to Rosey
(Rosey had found a guardian)

Page 188: Changed use to us
(both of us drowned)

Page 242: Changed Simly to Simply
(Simply this: to show you)

Page 270: Added missing single-quote
(to come hisself.')

Page 281: Added missing word 'on'
(Sally was on a stairflight)

Page 304: Removed duplicate word 'together'
(talk together earnestly)

Page 342: Changed you to your