Produced by William Koven, 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 FOUR CONTENTS BETTER THAN GOLD ......................................... Father Ryan My HEART LEAPS UP.................................. William Wordsworth THE BAREFOOT BOY ............................. John Greenleaf Whittier RAIN ON THE ROOF ....................................... Coates Kinney CID CAMPEADOR ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG ..................... Oliver Goldsmith MOTHER'S WAY ............................................. Father Ryan SONG OF THE BROOK .................................... Alfred Tennyson HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ........................... Grace E. Sellon FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS ....................... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To H. W. L. ..................................... James Russell Lowell THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH .................... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS ................. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A DOG OF FLANDERS ................................. Louise de la Ramee ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY ................................... Anna McCaleb NEARER HOME .............................................. Phoebe Cary PICTURES OF MEMORY ........................................ Alice Cary THE ESCAPE FROM PRISON ........................... Sir Samuel W. Baker STORIES OF THE CREATION THE DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN ........................ Cardinal Newman THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER .................................. Alexander Pope INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP .......................... Robert Browning NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE .................................. Grace E. Sellon THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS........................... Nathaniel Hawthorne LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND .. Felicia Browne Hemans THE SUNKEN TREASURE .............................. Nathaniel Hawthorne THE HUTCHINSON MOB ............................... Nathaniel Hawthorne THE BOSTON MASSACRE .............................. Nathaniel Hawthorne SHERIDAN'S RIDE ................................. Thomas Buchanan Read JOAN OF ARC ........................................ Thomas de Quincey PANCRATIUS .......................................... Cardinal Wiseman ALFRED THE GREAT ..................................... Charles Dickens THE BURIAL OF MOSES .......................... Cecil Frances Alexander BERNARDO DEL CARPIO ................................... Felicia Hemans DAVID CHEVY-CHASE ........................................... Richard Sheale THE ATTACK ON THE CASTLE ............................ Sir Walter Scott THE DEATH OF HECTOR ............................... From Homer's Iliad THE WOODEN HORSE ................................ From Vergil's Aeneid JOHN BUNYAN