side by side nearby, when she was interrupted by a great rustling of pages and opening of covers from a fat red book who had just rushed up.

"You remember me!" the red book cried. "All night long in the dark and wet —""

"I don't know as they have any more call to remember you than me," objected a quiet, firm New England voice. "When a friend calls to me from the road-""

"Tell you what I like the best,"" a cheerful Hoosier accent interrupted.

Then suddenly a brown book, with "Robert Burns" printed on his back, elbowed his way through the unguarded crowd with such roughness that he knocked many of them down. Instantly rose a hurly-burly of books throwing open their covers and demanding to be read at once. The boy and girl looked about anxiously, trying to recognize their friends, but in the confusion of so many books, all in strange bindings and with strange names, they could find only here and there a familiar voice. They were relieved, therefore, when the little book seized their hands and drew them into a quiet corner.

"How are we to know them?" they asked her. "And which should we read first?”

"You must choose for yourselves which books you will read first," she answered. "That should be as you like. But you know them all: I have shown you many of their poems. And I have made for you a list of some of their names, which will tell you, too, the kinds of poems which they have for you."

Upon reading the list which she pressed into their hands, the boy and the girl found this:

THE OLD, GRAVE BOOKS 371

Collections of many poems by different authors (“anthologies"):

"The Oxford Book of English Verse."

Palgrave's "Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics." "The Little Book of American Poets," "The Little Book of Modern Verse," and "The Second Book of Modern Verse," compiled by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Old ballads (like "Sir Patrick Spens," "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury," and "Robin Hood and the Widow's Sons"):

Percy's "Reliques."

Poems of the Knights of King Arthur (like "The Lady of Shalott"):

Tennyson's "Idylls of the King."

Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal."

Poems of adventure and of far-away lands (like "The Ballad of the Bolivar" and "The Explorer"):

The Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

Poems of many things (like "Heather Ale," "Windy Nights," "A Song of the Road"):

The Ballads and Other Poems of Robert Louis Steven

son.

Poems of brooks and woods and meadows (like "The Daffodils"):

The Poems of William Wordsworth.

Poems of boys and girls and of out-of-doors (like "Knee-Deep in June" and "The Brook-Song"):

The Collected Verse of James Whitcomb Riley.

Ridiculous poems (like "Jabberwocky," "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell," and "The Diverting History of John Gilpin"):

Carolyn Wells's "Book of Humorous Verse."

Sir William Gilbert's "Bab Ballads."

Poems of America:

Of Indians, Pilgrims, and the adventures of early days:
The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier.

The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Poems of William Cullen Bryant.

The Poems of James Russell Lowell. Of early days in the Great West:

The Poems of Bret Harte.

Of Alaska and the North:

Robert W. Service's "The Spell of the Yukon," "The
Ballads of a Cheechako," "Rhymes of a Rolling
Stone."

Of New England people:

Robert Frost's "North of Boston" and "Mountain
Interval."

Poems of the Great War:

George Herbert Clarke's "A Treasury of War Poetry." Robert W. Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man." Scottish poems (like "Tam O'Shanter," "To a Mouse," and "Highland Mary"):

The Poems of Robert Burns.

Books to read a little in now, and much more later:

The collected poetry of Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Tennyson, and Poe.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE Compilers desire to express their thanks to the following publishers, agents, and individual owners of copyright for their kind permission to include the selections enumerated below:

To Messrs. Henry Altemus Company, for the poems by Lewis Carroll.

To Messrs. D. Appleton and Company, for poems by William Cullen Bryant and Felicia Hemans.

To Messrs. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., for "A Lost Chord," by Adelaide Procter.

To Messrs. William Blackwood and Sons, for "The Voices," published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine. To The Bobbs-Merrill Company, for the poems by James Whitcomb Riley.

To The Cambridge University Press, for "The Elfin Shaft," from Miss E. M. Smith-Dampier's Danish Ballads. To Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, Ltd., for "A Lullaby," by G. R. Glasgow, originally published in Chambers's Journal. To Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, for the poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, and Jean Ingelow.

To Messrs. P. J. and A. E. Dobell, for "In the Train," by James Thomson ("B. V.").

To Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Company, for "The Dead," "The Jolly Company," "The Soldier," and "Song: Oh, Love," from The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (copyright, 1915, by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.).

To Messrs. George H. Doran Company, for "Trees," from Trees and Other Poems, by Joyce Kilmer (copyright, 1914), and for "The Guards Came Through," from The Guards Came Through and Other Poems, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (copyright, 1920).

To Lord Dunsany, for the prose excerpt, "What Is It 20 Hate Poetry?" from Nowadays.

To Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for her poems.

To Messrs. Henry Holt and Company, for "April Moon," "The Mother Bird," and "Silver," from Collected Poems, by Walter de la Mare; for "The Blue and the Gray," by Francis Miles Finch; for "Birches," "Brown's Descent," and "A Time to Talk," from Mountain Interval, by Robert Frost; and for "Good Hours" and "The Wood-Pile," from North of Boston, by Robert Frost.

To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, for poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lord Byron, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bret Harte, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Charles Kingsley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, William Vaughn Moody, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Dempster Sherman, Edward Rowland Sill, Celia Thaxter, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wordsworth.

To Mr. Rudyard Kipling (through Messrs. A. P. Watt and Son) and to Messrs. Doubleday, Page and Company, for "The Ballad of the Bolivar," "The Explorer," "The Long Trail," and "Recessional," from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (copyright, 1910).

To Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Company, for T. Buchanan Read's "Sheridan's Ride" and "The Brave at Home," and for Frank O. Ticknor's "Loyal."

To Messrs. Longmans, Green and Company of London, for "Scythe Song," by Andrew Lang, and for "The Patriot's Pass-Word," by James Montgomery.

To Messrs. Longmans, Green and Company of New York, for "Romance," by Andrew Lang.

To Messrs. Macmillan and Company, Ltd., of London, for "Out of the Night that Covers Me," from Poems, by William Ernest Henley.

To The Macmillan Company of New York, for poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti, Robert Southey, Sir William Gilbert, and Matthew Arnold.