Front matter

“What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood. That to the world are children; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate That reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.” Longfellow.

CHILDREN OF INDIA By Janet Harvey Kelman CHILDREN OF CHINA By G. Campbell Brown CHILDREN OF AFRICA By James B. Baird CHILDREN OF ARABIA By John Cameron Young CHILDREN OF JAMAICA By Isabel C. Maclean CHILDREN OF JAPAN By Janet Harvey Kelman CHILDREN OF EGYPT By L. Crowther CHILDREN OF CEYLON By Thomas Moscrop CHILDREN OF PERSIA By Mrs Napier Malcolm CHILDREN OF LABRADOR By Mary Lane Dwight CHILDREN OF SOUTH AMERICA By Katharine A. Hodge CHILDREN OF BORNEO By Edwin H. Gomes, M.A. CHILDREN OF WILD AUSTRALIA By Herbert Pitts