"The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children." Selected by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Doubleday. "Poems Children Love." Edited by Peurhyn W. Coussens. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Dodge. "Little Folks' Book of Verse." Edited by Clifton Johnson. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. Baker. "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children." Selected by M. G. Edgar. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by W. Pogány. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. Crowell. "The Golden Staircase." Selected by Louey Chisholm Illustrated in colour by M. Dibdin Spooner. Large 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. Putnam. "A Child's Book of Old Verse." Selected and illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Large 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. Duffield. "The Treasure Book of Children's Verse." Edited by Mabel and Lillian Quiller-Couch. Illustrated in colour by M. Ethelred Gray. 4to. Cloth, $5.00. Hodder. Popular edition, $2.00. *"The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyric Poems in the English Language." By Francis Turner Palgrave. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Macmillan. Before entering high school, the boy should own some edition of this great collection of verse. "The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics." Illustrated by Hugh Thompson, W. Heath Robinson, and A. C. Michael. Small 4to. Cloth, $1.50. Hodder. A good edition. "The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics." Illustrated in colour by Maxfield Parrish. 4to. Cloth, $2.50. Duffield. "Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics." Illustrated in colour by Anning Bell. Square 8vo. Cloth, $3.00. Dutton. "The Oxford Book of English Verse." By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Crown 8vo. Cloth, $1.90; leather and India paper, $3.50. Oxford Press. A good substitute for "The Golden Treasury." "The Boy's Percy." Being old ballads of war, adventure, and love, from Bishop Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Ancient Poetry." Edited for boys by Sidney Lanier. Illustrated from original designs by E. B. Bonsell. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00. Scribner. A capital book for any boy who is a real reader. *"A Book of English Ballads." Collected by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Decorative illustrations by George Wharton Edwards. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Macmillan. "The Ballad Book." Katharine Lee Bates. 12mo. Cloth, $.50. Sibley. A very good selection deserving a more attractive make-up. "The Ballad Book." William Allingham. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Macmillan. *"Robin Hood: His Deeds and Adventures." The original ballads illustrated in colour by Lucy Fitch Perkins. 4to. Cloth, $1.00. Stokes. "Ballads of Famous Fights." Illustrated in colour by W. H. C. Groome, Archibald Webb, and Dudley Fennant. Large 4to. Decorated boards, $1.25. Doran. "The Oxford Book of Ballads." Chosen and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Crown 8vo. Cloth, $2.00; leather and India paper, $3.50. Oxford Press. Very complete and good for the high school age. "English Narrative Poems." Selected and edited by Claude M. Fuers and Henry N. Sanborn. 24mo. (Pocket Classics.) Cloth, $.25. Macmillan.