Volume III
Reading edition
This volume contains selections from several books which it is felt will be read in their entirety by most children. They are:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Two modern fairy tales by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The amusing pictures are by Sir John Tenniel. The Macmillan Company. These fantastic stories delight everyone who reads them.
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe.
There are many editions of this old and popular story for boys, from an abbreviated form in words of one syllable to the original work in full. W. H. Lambert has edited a school edition in excellent manner for Ginn & Co.
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Rudolph Wyss.
Though not of such literary merit as Robinson Crusoe, it is similar in plot and usually more popular. Ginn & Co. publish a good, cheap edition, edited by J. H. Stickney.
Arabian Nights’ Entertainment.
The complete editions are not suitable for children to read, but the edition edited by Andrew Lang is excellent. Several schoolbook houses publish good selections, including the most popular tales.
Besides the books mentioned in the lists for Volumes I and II, the following might be suggested here:
The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier.
Houghton, Mifflin Company’s Cambridge edition is perhaps the best. Whittier did not write as much for children as Longfellow did, but his Snow-Bound is a classic that every child will love if he is helped a little in reading it. Other poems will appeal to the older members of the family.
The Book of Legends Told Over Again, by Horace E. Scudder.
Houghton, Mifflin Co. The Flying Dutchman, St. Christopher, William Tell, and The Wandering Jew are some of the names.
The Adventures of Ulysses, by Charles Lamb.
D. C. Heath & Co.
Norse Stories Re-Told from the Sagas, by Hamilton Wright Mabie.
Rand, McNally & Co.
The Biography of a Grizzly, by Ernest Thompson Seton.
The Century Company.
Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
The Story of Roland, by James Baldwin.
Illustrated by R. B. Birch. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
The Story of Siegfried, by James Baldwin.
Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Charles Scribner’s Sons.