Young Folks' Library Selections from the Choicest Literature of All Lands; Folk-Lore, Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Natural History, Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky, Animal Stories, Sea Tales, Brave Deeds, Explorations, Stories of School and College Life, Biography, History, Patriotic Eloquence, Poetry Third Edition Revised in Conference by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Editor-in-Chief, President William Jewett Tucker, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Van Dyke, Nathan Haskell Dole Twenty Volumes Richly Illustrated Boston Hall and Locke Company Publishers Stanhope Press F.H. Gilson Company Boston, U.S.A. 1902 EDITORIAL BOARD THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, Editor-in-chief, Author, poet, former editor _Atlantic Monthly,_ Boston, Mass. The HON. JOHN D. LONG, Secretary of the United States Navy, Boston. HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LL.D., Author, literarian, associate editor _The Outlook_, New York. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, Artist, author, New York. JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, Author, poet, and editor, Arlington, Mass. The REVEREND CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, Archdeacon, author, Philadelphia. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, Humorous writer, Atlanta, Ga. MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD, Historical novelist, Chicago. LAURA E. RICHARDS, Author, Gardiner, Me. ROSWELL FIELD, Author, editor _The Evening Post_, Chicago. TUDOR JENKS, Author, associate editor _Saint Nicholas_, New York. GEORGE A. HENTY, Traveller, author, London, England. KIRK MUNROE, Writer of stories for boys, Cocoanut Grove, Fla. EDITH M. THOMAS, Poet, West New Brighton, N.Y. CAROLINE TICKNOR, Author, editor, Boston. NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, Author, translator, literary editor _Current History_, Boston. WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER, D.D., LL.D., President Chicago University. DAVID STARR JORDAN, M.D., LL.D., President Leland Stanford Junior University, naturalist, writer, Stanford University, Cal. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, A.M., LL.D., etc., Scholar, author, Emeritus Professor of Art at Harvard University. HENRY VAN DYKE, D.D., LL.D., Clergyman, author, Professor Princeton University. The REVEREND THOMAS J. SHAHAN, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Professor of Early Ecclesiastical History, Catholic University, Washington, D.C. WILLIAM P. TRENT, Author, editor, Professor of English Literature, Columbia University, New York City. EDWARD SINGLETON HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D., Ex-president University of California, astronomer, author, U.S. Military Academy, West Point. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, Professor of American History, Chicago University. The VERY REV. GEORGE M. GRANT, D.D., LL.D., Educator, author, vice-principal Queen's College, Kingston, Ont. BARONESS VON BULOW, Educator, author, Dresden, Germany. ABBIE FARWELL BROWN, Author, Boston. CHARLES WELSH, Managing Editor, Author, lecturer, editor, Winthrop Highlands, Mass.