THE EDITORIAL BOARD of THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INC.
Reading edition
General Editor: William Byron Forbush, Ph.D., Litt.D. Author of “The Boy Problem”
Technical Editor: Music Editor:
Herbert Treadwell Wade Winton James Baltzell, A.B., Mus. Bac.
Technical Editor of The New International Secretary of The National Academy of
Encyclopedia Music
Literature Editor: Associate Editor:
Rossiter Johnson, Ph.D., LL.D. Daniel Edwin Wheeler
Editor of “Little Classics” Editorial Director of the Edison Industries
Office Editor: Jennie Ellis Burdick Editor of “The Children’s Own Library”
PARTIAL LIST OF SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS
JOSEPH H. ADAMS, HUGO FROELICH AND BONNIE E. SNOW,
Editor of Authors of
“Harper’s Practical Books for Boys” “Industrial Art” textbooks
T. GEORGE ALLEN, JULIA A. GLEASON,
Curator of the Oriental Museum, Teacher of Sewing,
University of Chicago Cornell University
MARY W. ARTOIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D., L.H.D.,
Traveler and Writer Lecturer and Author
ROGER W. BABSON, ISABEL F. HAPGOOD,
Author of “Central America” Author of “Russian Rambles”
GRACE GERTRUDE BARDEN, HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE,
Teacher of Domestic Science Author and Critic
HARRY K. BEASLEY, ROSE HENDERSON,
Electrical Engineer and Author Biographer and Travel Writer
C. S. BRAININ, Ph.D., HENRY WALTON JONES,
Professor of Astronomy, Fact Articles
Columbia University
M. ALSTON BUCKLEY, GRACE LEE KNELL,
Retold Tales and Fact Articles Teacher of Manual Training,
Ridgewood, N.J., Schools
FRANK H. CHELEY, O. IVAN LEE,
Editor of the “Father and Son Library” Analytical Chemist
LAURA CLARKE, CHARLES HENRY LERRIGO, M.D.,
Author of Fact Articles Former President of the
Kansas State Board of Health
CARL HARRY CLAUDY, HARRIS W. MOORE,
Author of “First Book of Photography” Author of “Manual Training Toys”
JOHN H. CLIFFORD, JOHN T. NICHOLS,
Associate-Editor of “The Young Folks’ Curator of Fish at the
Treasury,” “The Mother’s Book,” etc. American Museum of Natural History
CLAYTON S. COOPER T. GILBERT PEARSON,
Author of Executive Secretary of the National
“Understanding South America” Association of Audubon Societies
LEE S. CRANDALL, E. L. D. SEYMOUR,
Curator, New York Zoological Park Farm Editor of Country Life
WALTER ALDEN DYER, MORGAN SHEPARD (JOHN MARTIN),
Author and former Managing Editor of Writer of
Country Life in America Illustrated Letters to Children
WILLIAM H. EASTON, Ph.D., ROBERT W. SHUFELDT, M.D., U.S.M.C.,
Publicity Department of the Head of the Science Bureau,
Westinghouse Electric Washington, D. C.
and Manufacturing Co.
ARTHUR ELSON, ELVA S. SMITH,
Musical Critic and Author of Children’s Librarian of the
“The Book of Musical Knowledge” Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh
PHILIP D. FAGANS, MABELL SHIPPIE CLARKE SMITH,
Executive Secretary of the Author and Lecturer
Woodcraft League
JOHN CLARKE FARBER, A.M., MARY V. WORSTELL,
Lieutenant, United States National Army Author, Editor, and Lecturer
LOUISE MAUNSELL FIELD, KATHARINE S. WORTHINGTON,
Fiction Reviewer of The New York Times Teacher of English in the
Finch School
EHRMA G. FILER,
Fact Articles
PARTIAL LIST OF AUTHORS REPRESENTED
in the boys and girls bookshelf by selections from their writings
FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS, WASHINGTON IRVING,
Mechanical Engineer and Author Historian, Essayist, and Novelist
ROALD AMUNDSEN, TUDOR JENKS,
Leader of the Norwegian Polar Author of “Boys’ Book of Explorations,”
Expedition which reached the South Pole “Electricity for Young People,” etc.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, CHARLES KINGSLEY,
Danish Poet and Fabulist Clergyman and Author
CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY, GUSTAVE KOBBE,
Writer of Stories and Books for Author of
Children and Young Folks “Wagner’s Music Dramas Analyzed”
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR, CHARLES LAMB,
Author of “The Crimson Sweater” Critic, Humorist, and Author
and other books for boys
L. FRANK BAUM, SIDNEY LANIER,
Author of “The Wizard of Oz,” “Queen Zixie Poet and Critic
of Ix” and other children’s books
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Ph.D., M.D., Sc.D., EDMUND LEAMY,
Scientist and Inventor Author of “The Golden Spears”
JOHN STUART BLACKIE, MAUD McKNIGHT LINDSAY,
Scottish Scholar and Man-of-letters Author of “Mother Stories”
RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,
English Novelist Poet
JOHN HENRY BONER, SILAS ALPHA LOTTRIDGE,
Editor and Poet Author of
“Animal Snapshots and How Made”
ELBRIDGE STREETER BROOKS, FREDERIC A. LUCAS,
Author of “Historic Boys” Director of the American
and “Historic Girls” Museum of Natural History
WINIFRED BUCK, INEZ N. McFEE,
Author of “The American Girl” Author of “Tales of Common Things”
GELETT BURGESS, PETER MacQUEEN,
Draughtsman and Author Lecturer and Author of
“Around the World With the Flag”
THORNTON WALDO BURGESS, JOHN MILTON,
Author of “Old Mother West Wind” Poet
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, ALFRED NOYES,
Poet Poet
ROBERT BROWNING, ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE,
Poet Author of “The Van Dwellers,”
“Mark Twain” and other works
ROBERT BURNS, GIFFORD PINCHOT,
Poet Systematic Forester
CHARLES H. CAFFIN, EMILIE POULSSON,
Author of “A Guide to Pictures” Author of “Finger Plays”
CHARLES DICKENS, LAURA ELIZABETH RICHARDS,
Novelist Author of the “Hildegarde” Books
and “The Golden Windows”
MARY MAPES DODGE, JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY,
Author and Editor Poet
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, JOHN RUSKIN,
Author of Art Critic and Writer
“Young Folks’ History of Russia,” etc.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SIR WALTER SCOTT,
Novelist Novelist and Poet
M. S. EMERY, ANNA SEWELL
Author of “How to Enjoy Pictures” Novelist
EUGENE FIELD, ROBERT W. SERVICE,
Poet Author of “The Spell of the Yukon”
WILLIAM LOVELL FINLEY, ERNEST THOMPSON SETON,
State Biologist of Oregon Artist, Author, and Lecturer
EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
State Ornithologist of Massachusetts Poet and Dramatist
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,
Novelist Poet
MATTHEW PAGE GAFFNEY, VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON,
Headmaster of the Roger Ascham School Arctic Explorer
REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
Author of “Santa Claus on a Lark,” Poet, Essayist, and Novelist
“Social Salvation,” etc.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,
Author of “Uncle Remus Stories” Poet
ELIZABETH HARRISON, MRS. GUDRUN THORNE-THOMSEN,
President of the National Author of “East o’ the Sun and West o’ the
Kindergarten College Moon,” and other Norwegian Folk Tales
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, EVERETT TITSWORTH TOMLINSON
Novelist Ph.D., L.H.D.,
Author of “Three Young Continentals”
CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER, CAROLYN WELLS,
Author of Author of “A Nonsense Anthology”
“Big Game Fish of the United States” and the “Marjorie” Books
VICTOR HUGO, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER,
Poet and Novelist Poet and Author
FREDERICK WINTHROP HUTCHINSON, LEONARD WOOD,
Author of “The Men Who Found America” Major-General, United States Army
JEAN INGELOW, ORVILLE WRIGHT,
Poet and Novelist Aviator and Inventor
PARTIAL LIST OF ILLUSTRATORS
Examples of whose work appear in the Boys and Girls Bookshelf
John W. Alexander F. S. Church Lucy Fitch Perkins
Annie Anderson Clyde O. Deland Howard Pyle
Florence Anderson Edmund Dulac Arthur Rackham
Culmer Barnes Ruth Hallock Frederick Remington
Frank L. Baum Florence Harrison F. Reuterdahl
J. Carter Beard R. Bruce Horsfall Harry Rountree
W. T. Benda George W. Joy Carl Rungius
John Bennett E. W. Kemble Edmund J. Sawyer
Anna Whelan Betts Emilie Benson Knipe Ernest Thompson Seton
R. B. Birch Charles F. Lester R. Shrador
E. H. Blashfield J. C. Leyendecker Harold Sichel
R. I. Brasher H. Moore Hugh Spencer
Pamela Vinton Brown H. A. Ogden Alice Barber Stephens
Harrison Cady Monro S. Orr Frank Stick
Bess Bruce Cleveland Maxfield Parrish Sara S. Stillwell
F. Y. Cory Malcolm Patterson C. R. Swan
Lilian A. Covey E. C. Peixotto Albertine Randall Wheelan