Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of changes is found at the end of the book. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of those words is found at the end of the book. Oe ligatures have been expanded. The original book used both numerical and symbolic footnote markers. This version follows the original usage. [Illustration: THE TOURNAMENT] 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 SIX _New Edition_ [Illustration] Chicago BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1922 BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY CONTENTS PAGE HORATIUS _Lord Macaulay_ 1 LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER _Thomas Campbell_ 23 SIR WALTER SCOTT _Grace E. Sellon_ 26 THE TOURNAMENT _Sir Walter Scott_ 38 THE RAINBOW _Thomas Campbell_ 91 THE LION AND THE MISSIONARY _David Livingstone_ 93 THE MOSS ROSE _Translated from Krummacher_ 98 FOUR DUCKS ON A POND _William Allingham_ 98 RAB AND HIS FRIENDS _John Brown, M.D._ 99 ANNIE LAURIE _William Douglas_ 119 THE BLIND LASSIE _T. C. Latto_ 120 BOYHOOD _Washington Allston_ 122 SWEET AND LOW _Alfred Tennyson_ 122 CHILDHOOD _Donald G. Mitchell_ 124 THE BUGLE SONG _Alfred Tennyson_ 133 THE IMITATION OF CHRIST _Thomas a Kempis_ 134 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB _Lord Byron_ 141 RUTH 143 THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Lord Byron_ 153 SOHRAB AND RUSTEM 157 SOHRAB AND RUSTUM _Matthew Arnold_ 173 THE POET AND THE PEASANT _Emile Souvestre_ 206 JOHN HOWARD PAYNE AND _Home, Sweet Home_ 221 AULD LANG SYNE _Robert Burns_ 228