The Editor trusts that this book may be a guide into romance and fairy-land to many children.... By way of lending no aid to what is called Education, very few notes have been added. The child does not want everything to be explained; in the unexplained is great pleasure. Nothing, perhaps, crushes the love of poetry more surely and swiftly than the use of poems as schoolbooks.--_Introduction._ This excellent collection, for the most part British verse, contains a large proportion of Scotch songs and ballads. The productions of contemporary poets are not included. LANIER, SIDNEY. The Boy's Percy. Scribner. 2.00 Old Ballads of War, Adventure, and Love, from Bishop Thomas (p. 183) Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.--_Title-page._ But, passing far beyond the plans of these small antiquarian pleasures, Percy's book immediately enriched our whole ordinary existence by making common property of those golden figures which the undying ballad-maker had enameled into the solid tissue of English life.... Each ballad is given here exactly as it stands in the original except that the spelling has been modernized and such parts cut away as cleanliness required.--_Introduction._ NORTON, C.E. (Editor). Heart of Oak Books. Volume VI. Masterpieces of Literature. Heath. .55 The worth of the masterpieces of any art increases with use and familiarity of association. They grow fresher by custom; and the love of them deepens in proportion to the time we have known them, and to the memories with which they have become invested.--_Preface._ REPPLIER, AGNES (Editor). A Book of Famous Verse. Houghton. 1.25 In selecting these few poems I have had no other motive than to give pleasure to the children who may read them; and I have tried to study their tastes, and feelings, and desires.--_Introduction._ Though issued in 1892, Miss Repplier's excellent collection still holds its own among the very best, because of the high quality and interest of the poems chosen. The little book is of a most convenient size to carry about with one. RELIGION AND ETHICS (p. 184) Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? --It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright. WORDSWORTH. CARRUTH, W.H. Letters to American Boys. American Unitarian Association. .80