"The Summer Princess" from "The Enchanted Garden," by Mrs. Molesworth; to the Macmillan Company for "Nature," from "Preludes," by Madison Cawein, a selection from "The Everlasting Mercy," by John Masefield, and "In the Cool of the Evening," from "Poems," by Alfred Noyes, and a selection from "Gitanjali," by Rabindranath Tagore; to Edward Abbott Parry for "Undine" from "The First Book of Krab"; and to Lyman Abbott for "The Flower's Thanks." The selections from John Burroughs, Edith M. Thomas and John Townsend Trowbridge are used by permission of and by special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of their works. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SUMMER STORIES AND LEGENDS PAGE Summer (selection) _Madison Cawein_ 2 How Summer Conquered Winter (Iroquois Legend) _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 3 A Legend of the Flowers (Australian) _Katherine Langlot Parker_ 8 June (selection) _James Russell Lowell_ 14 The Sun-Goddess (Japanese Legend) _Frank Rinder_ 15 The Summer Maker (Ojibway Legend) Retold from Schoolcraft _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 20 Summer (selection) _Edmund Spenser_ 27 In the Kitchen-Garden (abridged) _Mrs. Alfred Gatty_ 28 Glad Day (poem) _W. Graham Robertson_ 42 The Summer Princess _Mrs. Molesworth_ 44 Midsummer (poem) _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 74 SUMMER SKIES Selection _Rabindranath Tagore_ 76 Day (poem) _Robert Browning_ 76 How the Sun Was Caught and Freed (Indian Legend) _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 77 A Day of Sunshine (poem) _Henry W. Longfellow_ 83 Phaeton's Drive in the Sun-Chariot _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 84 Song _William Shakespeare_ 90 Summer Sun (poem) _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 91 The Cloud (translated from the German by Eleanor L. Skinner) _Robert Reineck_ 92 Undine _Edward Abbott Parry_ 95 Legend of the Sun, Moon and Stars (Retold) _Ada M. Skinner_ 116 The Princess Moonbeam (Japanese Legend) _Mary F. Nixon-Roulet_ 120 The Moon (selection) _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 124