What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Part 45

Poems Every Child Should know.

Mr. C. R. D. Patmore's Children's Garland from the Best Poets.

Miss Agnes Repplier's Book of Famous Verse.

H. E. Scudder's American Poems.

The "Original Poems," and Others By Jane and Ann Taylor.

National Rhymes for the Nursery " George Saintsbury.

The Ballad Book " W. Allingham.

Lays of Ancient Rome " Lord Macaulay.

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers " W. E. Aytoun.

The Percy Reliques.

A Thousand and One Gems of Poetry.

Scott.

Longfellow.

Hood.

Many boys also like the humorous stories in _Barham's Ingoldsby Legends_.

Books About Children

To this section, which is suited more particularly for girls, belong a large number of stories of a very popular kind: stories describing the ordinary life of children of to-day, with such adventures as any of us can have near home. Years ago the favorites were--

The Fairchild Family By Mrs. Sherwood.

Sandford and Merton " Thomas Day.

But these are not read as they used to be, partly because taste has changed, and partly because so many other books can now be procured.

But fifty and more years ago they were in every nursery library.

The Swiss Family Robinson,

the most famous family book of all, will be found in the adventure section, to which perhaps really belong

Feats on the Fiord, The Settlers at Home,

by Harriet Martineau, although these two, and

The Crofton Boys

may be included here. Here also belong Maria Edgeworth's

Moral Tales for Young People.

The Parent's a.s.sistant,

which, although their flavor is old-fas.h.i.+oned, are yet as interesting as ever they were.

Another writer whose popularity is no longer what it was is Jacob Abbott, the author of a number of fascinating stories of home life (on farms and in the country) in America in the middle of last century.

The Franconia stories are these:--

Beechnut.

Wallace.

Madeline.

Caroline.

Mary Erskine.

Mary Bell.

Stuyvesant.

Agnes.

And this is the Rollo series, intended by Mr. Abbott for rather younger readers:--

The Little Scholar Learning to Talk.

Rollo Learning to Read.

Rollo at Play.

Rollo at Work.

Rollo at School.

Rollo's Vacation.

A list of other books, which come more or less rightly under the head of "Stories about Children" follows, the earlier ones being better suited to younger readers, and the later ones to older, the age aimed at in this chapter (and indeed in the whole book), ranging from five to fifteen.

By Kate Douglas Wiggin:--

Polly Oliver's Problem.

Timothy's Quest.

By Louisa M. Alcott:--

Little Women.

Good Wives.

Eight Cousins.

Rose in Bloom.

Spinning-Wheel Stories.

Little Men.

Jo's Boys.

An Old-Fas.h.i.+oned Girl.

Aunt Jo's Sc.r.a.p Bag.

Comic Tragedies.

The Little Pepper Series, and the Elsie Books.

By Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett:--

Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Editha's Burglar.

The Captain's Youngest.

Sara Crew.

By Mrs. Whitney:--

We Girls.

Faith Gartney's Girlhood.

The Gayworthys.