Front matter
Reading edition
BY HENRY VAN DYKE
Companionable Books
The Valley of Vision
Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts
Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land
Little Rivers
Fisherman’s Luck
Days Off
The Unknown Quantity
The Ruling Passion
The Blue Flower
Poems, Collection in one volume
Songs Out of Doors
Golden Stars
The Red Flower
The Grand Canyon, and Other Poems
The White Bees, and Other Poems
The Builders, and Other Poems
Music, and Other Poems
The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems
The House of Rimmon
Studies in Tennyson
Poems of Tennyson
Fighting for Peace
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
COMPANIONABLE BOOKS
JOHN KEATS.
Painted by Joseph Severn.
From a photograph, copyright by Hollyer, London.
COMPANIONABLE BOOKS
BY HENRY VAN DYKE
“What is this reading, which I must learn,” asked Adam, “and what is it like?”
“It is something beyond gardening,” answered Raphael, “and at times you will find it a heavy task. But at its best it will be like listening through your eyes; and you shall hear the flowers laugh, the trees talk, and the stars sing.”
Solomon Singlewitz—The Life of Adam
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1922
Copyright, 1922, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Copyright, 1920, by HARPER BROTHERS
Printed in the United States of America
Published October, 1922
To MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT
AUTHOR AND RANCHMAN ONCE MY SCHOLAR ALWAYS MY FRIEND