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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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k, called Gullivers Travels (both ofwhich stories you will find, in brief form in this sameVolume IX.), and Samuel Richardson and Henry Field-ing and Oliver Goldsmith—poor Oliver, who wasnt allhis friends wished him to be as a man, but who, never-theless, wrote one of the most beautiful stories in theEnglish language, The Vicar of Wakefield, and also oneof the most perfect poems, The Deserted Village. And then there are the highly useful sections (inVolume X.), called Doing Things Indoors andOut, which tell you how to make things—that is, howto use your hands. And last, but by no means least,there are the jolly little verses, and the longer poems,many of them very famous and beautiful ones, which youwill come to like better and better as you grow older. I have told you only a little about what is in thesetwo volumes of The BOOKSHELF, but I know you willfind something that will interest you on every page. Just look at every page, and see if I am not right. Yours, for facts and fun,
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CONTENTS Stories in Poem and Picture for Little Folk, Part IV i Three Welshmen—If!—I Am Lonely (George Eliot)—Ambitious Sophy (ElizabethTurner)—The Gardener (Lucy F. Perkins)— Garden Rivals (Isabel E. Mackay)Grandmothers Garden (Joel Benton) i Tales of Sir Walter Scott 6 - PAGES 14 Poems for Children of All Ages, Part V 15-25 Geoffry of Monmouths Dream (Stella G. Stem)—The Young Mouse (JeffreysTaylor)—Snake Story (Henry Johnstone)—The Melancholy Pig (Lewis Carroll)—The King of Unsergarten (Erie Parker)—The Longfellow House at Portland(Mary E. Roberts)—A Chinese Valentine (A. R. Whcclan)—To the FringedGentian (William Cullcn Bryant)—The Moon (Robert Louis Stevenson)—TheMonths—Symons Lesson of Wisdom for all Manner of Children—The Ant andthe Cricket—What Would You See? (George Macdonald)—Sneezing Six Great Story-Tellers II 26-39 Sir Walter Scott—Charles Dickens—William M. Thackeray—Charles Kingsley—George Eliot—Robert Louis Stevenson Poems f

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