[Illustration] If this is borrowed by a friend Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, _not_ to _lend_ But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish learning's store But books I find if often lent Return to me no more. Every Boy's Library For Little Boys NEW EDITION, 1910 =1 The Man Without a Country= By Rev. E. E. Hale =2 The Bicycle Highwaymen= By Frank M. Bicknell =3 The Railroad Cut= By W. O. Stoddard =4 J. Cole= By Emma Gellibrand =5 Laddie= By Evelyn Whitaker =6 Miss Toosey= By Evelyn Whitaker =7 Elder Leland's Ghost= By Hezekiah Butterworth =9 Wonder Book Stories= By Nathaniel Hawthorne =10 The Prince of the Pin Elves= By Charles Lee Sleight =11 The Little Lame Prince= By Miss Mulock =12 One Thousand Men for a Christmas Present= By Mary B. Sheldon =13 The Little Earl= By Ouida =14 The Double Prince= By Frank M. Bicknell =15 The Young Archer= By Charles E. Brimblecom =16 Little Peterkin Vandike= By Charles Stuart Pratt =17 Christmas Carol= By Charles Dickens =18 A Great Emergency= By Juliana Horatia Ewing =19 The Rose and the Ring= By William M. Thackeray =20 Lazy Lawrence and other Stories= By Maria Edgeworth =21 Forgive and Forget and Other Stories= By Maria Edgeworth =22 The False Key and other Stories= By Maria Edgeworth =23 A Boy's Battle= By Will Allen Dromgoole =24 The Gold Bug= By Edgar Allan Poe =25 The Pineboro Quartette= By Willis Boyd Allen =26 His Majesty the King and Wee Willie Winkie= By Rudyard Kipling =27 The Old Monday Farm= By Louise R. Baker =28 Daddy Darwin's Dovecote= By Juliana H. Ewing =29 Little Dick's Christmas= By Etheldred B. Barry =30 What Paul Did= By Etheldred B. Barry =31 Harum Scarum Joe= By Will Allen Dromgoole =32 The Drums of the Fore and Aft= By Rudyard Kipling =33 The Child of Urbino and Moufflou= By Ouida =34 Hero-Chums= By Will Allen Dromgoole =35 Little Tong's Mission= By Etheldred B. Barry H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK AND BOSTON [Illustration: THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN] EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY THE PIED PIPER of HAMELIN and Other Poems By ROBERT BROWNING [Illustration] ILLUSTRATED H. M. CALDWELL CO. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK & BOSTON _Copyright, 1899_ BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY CONTENTS. PAGE THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN 11 HERVÉ RIEL 24