Whittier, the gentle Quaker poet, was one of the sturdiest heroes of the antislavery movement. In those days he was a fighter, stoned and mobbed by the partisans of slavery in Philadelphia and Concord, New Hampshire. His genius was discovered by William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, while he was editing a paper at Newburyport. Whittier's sister had sent some verses of her young brother's to the paper and Garrison not only printed them but hunted up the author to enlist him in his good work. In his latter years Whittier clung to the rural obscurity of Amesbury, where he enjoyed the rippling life of the little town, talking local politics with the 'natives' in the country store, chatting with his friends on the doorstep of the Friends' meeting-house which he had helped to build, or planting trees about it, like Holmes, who used to boast that at one time or another he had set out more than seven hundred saplings. Whittier, more than any other American, has left us glowing pictures of New England life and geniality. With his reverent sense of the need for emphasizing morals and duty there was a love of home, of the memory of youth's work and play that makes "Snow-Bound" immortal. Emerson was the Yankee philosopher; Hawthorne, the novelist of New England's moods; Thoreau, the nature-worshiper; Holmes, the Bostonian; Longfellow, the cosmopolitan poet; but Whittier was the poet of New England's heart. 'TO DRIVE DULL CARE AWAY' The brightest and most delightful pages that have ever been written. Short stories, humor, adventure, and fun. SHORT STORIES ALDRICH: "Père Antoine's Date Palm." BALZAC: "The Purse." BARRIE: "Lads and Lassies." BJÖRNSON: "The Railroad and the Churchyard." BOCCACCIO: "The Story of Constantia," "The Story of Federigo and the Falcon." BROWN: "Rab and his Friends." COLLINS: "A Terribly Strange Bed." CRAWFORD: "The Upper Berth." ELIOT: "Brother Jacob." HALE: "The Man Without a Country." HARDY: "The Three Strangers." HARTE: "Tennessee's Partner." HAWTHORNE: "The Snow-Image." IRVING: "Rip Van Winkle." JAPANESE LITERATURE: "The Forty-Seven Rônins." KIPLING: "The Man Who Would Be King." MACLEOD: "The Washer of the Ford." MAUPASSANT: "The Piece of String." MEREDITH: "The Story of Noorna Bin Noorka, the Genie Karaz, and the Princess of Oolb," "The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder." POE: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado." STERNE: "The Story of Le Fevre." STEVENSON: "A Lodging for the Night." TOLSTOI: "Where Love is, There God is Also." FAIRY TALES ANDERSEN: "The Hardy Tin Soldier," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Old Street Lamp." APULEIUS: "The Story of Cupid and Psyche." ARABIAN NIGHTS: "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers," "Abon-Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened," "The Story of the Three Apples." FOUQUÉ: "Undine." GRIMM: "Cinderella," "Hansel and Grethel," "The Two Brothers."