The Republican journal., 1898-03-17
The Belfast Free Library.
4 Second List Selected from the RiverSid
school Library.

A Second List Selected from the Riverside
school Library.
sit is pleasure to see excellenta a colec-
ton of books as is the Riverside School Ii
brary The fifty volumes embraced in the
edition are selected from the best literature
that has stood the test of the worlds judg-
ment and proven worthy of exietenoe. The
books are edited with great care, and con-
tain brief but good biographical sketches of
the authors, and, wherever needed, full
giossaries."
Andersen, Hans Christian, Stories
by. With Portrait. ...... ..... S. An 3 5
All of Andersen's short stories would re-
quire two large volumes, but he was an
unequal writer, and the collection here
given contains his best known and most at
tractive stories. The translator has follow
ed carefully the very simple style of Ander-
sen, so that the book can be read by any one
who has mastered the second reader, and by
some who have mastered the first Ander-
sen has been called the first child who has
contributed to literature, 50 thoroughly
does he undertand child's Imagination.
The preface gives a pleasant glimpse of the
man.
Children's Hour, The and Other
Poems. Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow. With Biographical Sketch,
Notes, Portrait, and IIustra-
tons. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S. l. 81
In this volume are gathered the most pop
ular of Longfe lows shorter poems, begin
ming with those most familiar and easy and
proceeding to the more scholarly.
Enoch Arden, The Coming of Ar
thur, and Other Poems By AL
fred, Lord Tennyson. With In
Productions, Notes, Picture of
Lord Tennysons Home, and Por-
trait. Observation-Disclosures. S. T 25 e
Lord Tennyson's story of Enoch Arden
has struck deep into the heart of genera
ton of readers, and the poems which are
grouped with 1t include four of the famous
ldylls of the King.
Fables and Folk Stories. By
Horace E. scudder Fronts
piece Observation-Disclosures "Ciu-
uerella. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. >. SCu.
Lady of the Lake, The. By Sir
Walter Scott With Sketch of
Scott's life, and thirty three IL
lu9Urabl00S, .. SEQ
This poem by Scott is almost always the
first one to be read when Scott is taken up,
and the picturesqueness, movement, and
melody of the verse make it one of the last
to fade from the memory. sketch of the
poets life takes special cognizance of the
poetic side OF his nature, and many of the
illustrations are careful stories from the
g enes of the poem.
Polly divers Problem. BY Kate
Douglas Wiggin. W ith Introduce
tory Sketch, Portrait, and Illus
trations. .......................S. W 63 p
A story for girls, showing how girl in
straitened circumstances bravely worked
out the problem of self-support
Shakespeare's Julius Cesar and
AS You Like 1t. With Introduc-
tons and Notes. es.................. S. Sh l
The text followed is that of the eminent
Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant
White, whose notes, always to the point,
have also been used and added to.
Silas Mariner: The Weaver of Ra-
veloe. By George Eliot. With
an Introduction and Portrait. Ell 4 9
Silas Mariner is one of the most perfect
novels on small scale in the English Ian.
guage, and its charm resides both in its style
and its fine development of character. The
Introduction treats of the life and career of
George Eliot, and the place she occupies in
English Literature
Story of a Bad Boy, The. By
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. With
Biogra phical Sketch, Portrait,
and many Illustrations. ......... S. AL 2 8
A humorous and graphic story of the ad-
ventures of hearty American boy living in
an old seaport town. The book has been a
great favorite with generation of boys.
March, 1S98
GA ST o1I a.
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