Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND A NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN BY CHARLES H. SYLVESTER Author of English and American Literature VOLUME TWO New Edition 1922 CONTENTS AESOP THE FALCON AND THE PARTRIDGE (From the Arabian Nights) MINERVA AND THE OWL THE SPARROW AND THE EAGLE (From the Arabian Nights) THE OLD MAN AND DEATH INFANT JOY ........ William Blake THE BABY ........ George MacDonald THE DISCONTENTED STONECUTTER (From the Japanese) DISCREET HANS ........ Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm THE POPPYLAND EXPRESS ........ St. Louis Star Sayings BLUEBEARD LULLABY RUMPELSTILTZKIN ........ Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm THE MIRROR OF MATSUYANA (From the Japanese) A CONTRAST THE GOLDEN TOUCH ........ Nathaniel Hawthorne THE CHILD'S WORLD ........ W. B. Rands THE FIR TREE ........ Hans Christian Andersen HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN PICTURE BOOKS IN WINTER ........ Robert Louis Stevenson HOW THE WOLF WAS BOUND ........ Adapted by Anna McCaleb THE DEATH OF BALDER ........ Adapted by Anna McCaleb THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI ........ Adapted by Anna McCaleb SEVEN TIMES ONE ........ Jean Ingelow SHUFFLE-SHOON AND AMBER-LOCKS ........ Eugene Field AFTERWHILE ........ James Whitcomb Riley WINDY NIGHTS ........ Robert Louis Stevenson THE SNOW QUEEN ........ Hans Christian Andersen THE CHIMERA ........ Nathaniel Hawthorne A VISIT FBOM ST. NICHOLAS ........ Clement C. Moore THE STORY OF PHAETHON THE ENGLISH ROBIN ........ Harrison Weir TOM, THE WATER BABY ........ Charles Kingsley THE MILKMAID ........ Jeffreys Taylor HOLGER DANSKE ........ Hans Christian Andersen WHAT THE OLD MAN DOES is ALWAYS RIGHT ........ Hans Christian Andersen THE FAIRIES OF CALDON-LOW ........ Mary Howitt WHO STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST? ........ L. Maria Child THE FIRST SNOWFALL ........ James Russell Lowell THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER ........ John Ruskin THE STORY OF ESTHER THE DARNING-NEEDLE ........ Hans Christian Andersen THE POTATO ........ Thomas Moore THE QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD ORIGIN OF THE OPAL IN TIME'S SWING ........ Lucy Larcom WHY THE SEA IS SALT ........ Mary Howitt PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES For Classification of Selections, see General Index at end of Volume X. ILLUSTRATIONS