The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for the older children, and both the style and the situations call for more maturity on the part of the reader. The lure of the extraordinary is now dispensed with, and instead these tales supply the interest that comes from recognizable truth to experience.
The list of fiction contained in this volume, representing the imaginative product of almost all races and times, is fitly closed by the gift made to the children of England of a story for themselves by the master of English novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray.
- Summary by William Patten
Brother Rabbit’s Cradle by Joel Chandler HarrisThe Little Baxters Go Marketing by Tudor JenksA Story of Decoration Day for the Little Children of To-day by Elizabeth HarrisonThe Taxes of Middlebrook by Ray Stannard BakerThe Cure of Fear by Norman DuncanA Christmas Adventure by J.E. ChamberlinChased by the Trail by Jack LondonBig Timber Beacon by John L. MathewsHow Hilda Got a School by Lelia MunsellThe Imp and the Drum by Josephine D. BaconThe Second String by James B. ConnollyHolding the Pipe by Albert W. TolmanThe Travelling Doll by Evelyn Snead BarnettThe Doll Doctor by E. V. LucasThe Idea that Went Astray by Pauline C. BouvéGravity Gregg by Isaac Ogden RankinJonnasen by Dallas Lore SharpIn the Oven by Richard W. ChildOn a Slide-Board by Robert BarnesThe Call of the Sea by Frederick PalmerOn a Tight Rope by Albert W. TolmanDown the Incline by Charles Newton HoodThe Cost of Loving by Frederick O. BartlettLadybird by Edith BarnardThe Drasnoe Pipe-Line by Arthur Stanwood PierManuk Del Monte by Rowland ThomasThe Man Without a Country, part 1 by Edward Everett HaleThe Man Without a Country, part 2 by Edward Everett HaleThe Foreman by Stewart E. WhiteThe Gray Collie by Georgia W. PangbornThe Fore-Room Rug by Kate Douglas WigginCressy’s New-Year’s Rent by Albert LeeMr. O’Leary’s Second Love by Charles LeverThe Rose and the Ring by William M. ThackerayI. Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to BreakfastII. How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went WithoutIII. Tells Who the Fairy Blackstick Was, and Who Were Ever So Many Grand Personages BesidesIV. How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Princess Angelica’s ChristeningV. How Princess Angelica Took a Little MaidVI. How Prince Giglio Behaved HimselfVII. How Giglio and Angelica Had a QuarrelVIII. How Gruffanuff Picked the Fairy Ring Up, and Prince Bulbo Came to CourtIX. How Betsinda Got the Warming-PanX. How King Valoroso Was in a Dreadful PassionXI. What Gruffanuff Did to Giglio and BetsindaXII. How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of HerXIII. How Queen Rosalba Came to the Castle of the Bold Count HogginarmoXIV. What Became of GiglioXV. We Return to RosalbaXVI. How Hedzoff Rode Back Again to King GiglioXVII. How a Tremendous Battle Took Place, and Who Won ItXVIII. How They All Journeyed Back to the CapitalXIX. And Now We Come to the Last Scene in the Pantomime
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