Chapter 1

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, Editor

DANIEL EDWIN WHEELER, Assistant Editor

New York The University Society Inc. Publishers

1909

PARTIAL LIST OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Editor

EDWARD EVERETT HALE Associate Editor

DANIEL EDWIN WHEELER Managing Editor

Partial List of Contributors, Assistant Editors and Advisers:

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, President Columbia University.

WILLIAM R. HARPER, Late President Chicago University.

Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Ex-President of the United States.

Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, Late President of the United States.

JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, American Roman Catholic prelate.

LAWRENCE J. BURPEE, Librarian Ottawa Public Library; author of "Canadian Life in Town and Country," etc.

BLISS CARMAN, poet, essayist, and editor.

THOMAS B. FLINT, Clerk House of Commons, Canada; editor "Parliamentary Practice and Procedure."

AGNES C. LAUT, author "Lords of the North," "Hudson's Bay Company," etc.

BECKLES WILLSON, author of "The Romance of Canada," "Life and Letters of James Wolfe," etc.

EDWARD W. BOK, editor "Ladies' Home Journal."

HENRY VAN DYKE, author, poet, and Professor of English Literature, Princeton University.

LYMAN ABBOTT, author, editor of "The Outlook."

JACOB A. RIIS, author and journalist.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR., Professor at Union College.

CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS, writer of animal stories.

JANET H. KELMAN, author "Stories from the Crusades," "A Book of Butterflies," etc.

VAUTIER GOLDING, author "Life of Henry M. Stanley," etc.

LENA DALKEITH, author "A Book of Beasts," "Stories from French History," etc.

H.E. MARSHALL, author "A Child's History of England." "History of English Literature," etc.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, creator of "Uncle Remus."

GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON, novelist and journalist.

WILLIAM BLAIKIE, author of "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So."

JOSEPH JACOBS, folklore writer and editor of the "Jewish Encyclopedia."

Mrs. VIRGINIA TERHUNE ("Marlon Harland"), author of "Common Sense in the Household," etc.

A.D. INNES, author "England Under the Tudors," "England's Industrial Development," etc.

EDMUND F. SELLAR, author "Life of Nelson," etc.

MARY MACGREGOR, author "King Arthur's Knights," etc.

JEANIE LANG, author "Life of General Gordon," etc.

Rev. THEODORE WOOD, F.E.S., writer on natural history.

MARGARET E. SANGSTER, author of "The Art of Home-Making," etc.

HERBERT T. WADE, editor and writer on physics.

JOHN H. CLIFFORD, editor and writer.

ERNEST INGERSOLL, naturalist and author.

IDA PRENTICE WHITCOMB, author of "Young People's Story of Music," "Heroes of History," etc.

MARK HAMBOURG, pianist and composer.

Mme. BLANCHE MARCHESI, opera singer and teacher.

ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS, author "Historic Boys," etc.

PAULINE C. BOUVÉ, author "Stories of American Heroes for Boys and Girls," etc.

CONTENTS

Introduction

CLASSIC TALES

Don Quixote

By Miguel Cervantes. Adapted by John Lang

I. HOW DON QUIXOTE WAS KNIGHTED

II. HOW DON QUIXOTE RESCUED ANDRES; AND HOW HE RETURNED HOME

III. HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA STARTED ON THEIR SEARCH FOR ADVENTURES; AND HOW DON QUIXOTE FOUGHT WITH THE WINDMILLS

IV. HOW DON QUIXOTE WON A HELMET; HOW HE FOUGHT WITH TWO ARMIES; AND HOW SANCHO'S ASS WAS STOLEN

V. HOW DON QUIXOTE SAW DULCINEA

VI. HOW DON QUIXOTE FOUGHT WITH A LION; AND HOW HE DEFEATED THE MOORS

VII. THE BATTLE WITH THE BULLS; THE FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON; AND HOW DON QUIXOTE DIED

Gulliver's Travels: Voyage to Lilliput

By Jonathan Swift. Adapted by John Lang

I. GULLIVER'S BIRTH AND EARLY VOYAGES

II. GULLIVER IS WRECKED ON THE COAST OF LILLIPUT

III. GULLIVER IS TAKEN AS A PRISONER TO THE CAPITAL OF LILLIPUT

IV. GULLIVER IS FREED, AND CAPTURES THE BLEFUSCAN FLEET

V. GULLIVER'S ESCAPE FROM LILLIPUT AND RETURN TO ENGLAND

The Arabian Nights

Adapted by Amy Steedman

I. ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP

II. THE ENCHANTED HORSE

III. SINDBAD THE SAILOR

The Iliad of Homer

Adapted by Jeanie Lang

I. THE STORY Of WHAT LED TO THE SIEGE OF TROY

II. THE COUNCIL

III. THE FIGHT BETWEEN PARIS AND MENELAUS

IV. HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE

V. HOW PATROCLUS FOUGHT AND DIED

VI. THE ROUSING OF ACHILLES

The Odyssey of Homer

Adapted by Jeanie Lang

I. WHAT HAPPENED IN ITHACA WHILE ODYSSEUS WAS AWAY

II. HOW ODYSSEUS CAME HOME

Robinson Crusoe

By Daniel Defoe. Adapted by John Lang

I. HOW ROBINSON FIRST WENT TO SEA; AND HOW HE WAS SHIPWRECKED

II. ROBINSON WORKS HARD AT MAKING HIMSELF A HOME

III. THE EARTHQUAKE AND HURRICANE; AND HOW ROBINSON BUILT A BOAT

IV. ROBINSON BUILDS A SECOND BOAT, IN WHICH HE IS SWEPT OUT TO SEA

V. ROBINSON SEES A FOOTPRINT ON THE SAND, FINDS A CAVE, AND RESCUES FRIDAY

VI. ROBINSON TRAINS FRIDAY AND THEY BUILD A LARGE BOAT; THEY RESCUE TWO PRISONERS FROM THE CANNIBALS

VII. ARRIVAL OF AN ENGLISH SHIP: ROBINSON SAILS FOR HOME

Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer. Adapted by Janet Harvey Kelman

I. DORIGEN

II. EMELIA

III. GRISELDA

The Pilgrim's Progress

By John Bunyan. Adapted by Mary Macgregor

Tales from Shakespeare

By Charles and Mary Lamb

I. THE TEMPEST

II. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

OLD-FASHIONED STORIES

Simple Susan

By Maria Edgeworth. Adapted by Louey Chisholm

I. QUEEN OF THE MAY

II. BAD NEWS

III. SUSAN'S GUINEA-FOWL

IV. SUSAN VISITS THE ABBEY

V. SUSAN'S PET LAMB

VI. THE BLIND HARPER

VII. GOOD NEWS

VIII. BARBARA VISITS THE ABBEY

IX. A SURPRISE FOR SUSAN

X. BARBARA'S ACCIDENT

XI. THE PRIZE-GIVING

XII. ATTORNEY CASE IN TROUBLE

XIII. SUSAN'S BIRTHDAY

Limby Lumpy

The Sore Tongue

By Jane Taylor

Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing

By John Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld

Prince Life

By G.P.R. James

The Fruits of Disobedience, or The Kidnapped Child

Dicky Random, or Good Nature Is Nothing Without Good Conduct

Embellishment

By Jacob Abbott

The Oyster Patties

Two Little Boys

By Thomas Day

I. THE GOOD-NATURED LITTLE BOY

II. THE ILL-NATURED LITTLE BOY

The Purple Jar

By Maria Edgeworth

The Three Cakes

By Armand Berquin

Amendment

Trial

By John Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld

A Plot of Gunpowder: An Old Lady Seized for a Guy

Ascribed to William Martin ("Peter Parley")

Uncle David's Nonsensical Story About Giants and Fairies

By Katherine Sinclair

The Inquisitive Girl

Busy Idleness

By Jane Taylor

The Renowned History of Little Goody Two-Shoes

Ascribed to Oliver Goldsmith

INTRODUCTION

I. HOW AND ABOUT LITTLE MARGERY AND HER BROTHER

II. HOW AND ABOUT MR. SMITH

III. HOW LITTLE MARGERY OBTAINED THE NAME OF GOODY TWO-SHOES, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PARISH

IV. HOW LITTLE MARGERY LEARNED TO READ, AND BY DEGREES TAUGHT OTHERS

V. HOW LITTLE TWO-SHOES BECAME A TROTTING TUTORESS, AND HOW SHE TAUGHT HER YOUNG PUPILS

VI. HOW THE WHOLE PARISH WAS FRIGHTENED

VII. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE SPIRITS OR THINGS SHE SAW IN THE CHURCH

VIII. OF SOMETHING WHICH HAPPENED TO LITTLE MARGERY TWO-SHOES IN A BARN, MORE DREADFUL THAN THE GHOST IN THE CHURCH; AND HOW SHE RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL TO HER ENEMY, SIR TIMOTHY

IX. HOW LITTLE MARGERY WAS MADE PRINCIPAL OF A COUNTRY COLLEGE

(Part Two.) The Renowned History of Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes

I. OF HER SCHOOL, HER USHERS, OR ASSISTANTS, AND HER MANNER OF TEACHING

II. A SCENE OF DISTRESS IN A SCHOOL

III. OF THE AMAZING SAGACITY AND INSTINCT OF A LITTLE DOG

IV. WHAT HAPPENED AT FARMER GROVE'S, AND HOW SHE GRATIFIED HIM FOR THE USE OF HIS ROOM

V. THE CASE OF MRS. MARGERY

VI. THE TRUE USE OF RICHES

ILLUSTRATIONS