JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER (1759-1805). _Dramatic Works and Poems._ In several volumes of _Bohn’s Library_, translated by Coleridge and others. WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832). _Complete Poetical Works._ In the Cambridge Edition. Scott’s narrative poems are preëminently adapted to the taste and understanding of young readers. There are many school editions of Scott’s poetry, and innumerable reprints attest his continued popularity. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. The best one-volume edition of Shakespeare is the Cambridge Edition. The best edition in many volumes is the Cambridge Shakespeare, published by Macmillan & Co. It gives the readings of the Elizabethan texts so that the reader can distinguish (and accept or reject) the emendations of scholars. A pocket edition such as the Temple (Macmillan), or the Ariel (Putnam), will prove a good friend. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822). _Complete Poetical Works._ In the Cambridge Edition or the Globe. In two volumes in _Everyman’s Library_. Selected poems in the _Golden Treasury Series_. PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-86). _Lyric Poems._ In a small attractive volume, published by Macmillan. SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.C.) _Plays._ In the English translation of R. C. Jebb. The volume in _Everyman’s Library_ contains translations by Young. Professor G. H. Palmer’s “Antigone” is as remarkable as his “Odyssey.” ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843). _Poems._ Selected poems in the _Golden Treasury Series_. EDMUND SPENSER (1552-99). _Complete Poems._ In the Globe Edition. Called the poet’s poet; a source of inspiration to other poets. If we do not read “The Faerie Queene” at length, it is because we have so many poets since Spenser. Yet if the reader had only Spenser he would have an inexhaustible river of English poetry. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1849-94). _A Child’s Garden of Verses._ Published by Scribner, in one volume, which contains Stevenson’s other verse. “The Child’s Garden” celebrates childhood in a way that touches the grown imagination, like the poems about children by Blake, Swinburne, and Francis Thompson, but it appeals also to children of all ages. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909). _Selected Poems._ Edited by R. H. Stoddard and published by Crowell. The young reader should approach Swinburne first in “Atalanta,” poems about children, poems about other poets, and poems of liberty, notably “The Litany of Nations.” He is a noble poet, frequently misrepresented by friendly and unfriendly wafters of current literary opinion. JOHN B. TABB. _Poems._ In two or three small volumes, published by Small, Maynard & Co. The purest note among living American poets. ALFRED TENNYSON (1809-92). _Poetic and Dramatic Works._ Complete in one volume in the Cambridge Edition and also in the Globe. Of all modern poets preëminently the one for young and old readers to know entire (with the possible exception of his dramas). THEOCRITUS. _Idylls._