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. Oe ligatures have been expanded. [Illustration: THE CANOE RACE] 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 SEVEN _New Edition_ [Illustration] Chicago BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1922 BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY CONTENTS PAGE THE DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 1 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN _William Cullen Bryant_ 4 TO A MOUSE _Robert Burns_ 5 TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY _Robert Burns_ 8 THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET _Samuel Wordsworth_ 11 BANNOCKBURN _Robert Burns_ 15 BOAT SONG _Sir Walter Scott_ 17 THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY _Washington Irving_ 20 THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 29 THE BLACK HAWK TRAGEDY _Edwin D. Coe_ 58 THE PETRIFIED FERN _Mary Bolles Branch_ 77 AN EXCITING CANOE RACE _J. Fenimore Cooper_ 79 THE BUFFALO _Francis Parkman_ 96 THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE _Alfred Tennyson_ 147 FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT _Robert Burns_ 149 BREATHES THERE THE MAN _Sir Walter Scott_ 151 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE _William Collins_ 151 QUEEN VICTORIA _Anna McCaleb_ 152 THE RECESSIONAL _Rudyard Kipling_ 164 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 167 HOW'S MY BOY? _Sydney Dobell_ 169 THE SOLDIER'S DREAM _Thomas Campbell_ 170 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY _James Montgomery_ 172 THE OLD CONTINENTALS _Guy Humphreys McMaster_ 175 THE PICKET-GUARD _Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers_ 177 MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME _Stephen Collins Foster_ 179 THE FORSAKEN MERMAN _Matthew Arnold_ 180