he Flag"

JOHN MILTON,
Poet

ALFRED NOYES,
Poet

ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE,
Author of "The Van Dwellers," "Mark Twain" and other works

GIFFORD PINCHOT,
Systematic Forester

EMILIE POULSSON,
Author of "Finger Plays"

LAURA ELIZABETH RICHARDS,
Author of the "Hildegarde" Books and "The Golden Windows"

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY,
Poet

JOHN RUSKIN,
Art Critic and Writer

SIR WALTER SCOTT,
Novelist and Poet

ANNA SEWELL
Novelist

ROBERT W. SERVICE,
Author of "The Spell of the Yukon"

ERNEST THOMPSON SETON,
Artist, Author, and Lecturer

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
Poet and Dramatist

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,
Poet

VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON,
Arctic Explorer

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
Poet, Essayist, and Novelist

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,
Poet

MRS. GUDRUN THORNE-THOMSEN,
Author of "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon,"
and other Norwegian Folk Tales

EVERETT TITSWORTH TOMLINSON, Ph.D., L.H.D.,
Author of "Three Young Continentals"

CAROLYN WELLS,
Author of "A Nonsense Anthology" and the "Marjorie" Books

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER,
Poet and Author

LEONARD WOOD,
Major-General, United States Army

ORVILLE WRIGHT,
Aviator and Inventor

PARTIAL LIST OF ILLUSTRATORS
_Examples of whose work appear in the_ BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF

JOHN W. ALEXANDER F. S. CHURCH LUCY FITCH PERKINS
ANNIE ANDERSON CLYDE O. DELAND HOWARD PYLE
FLORENCE ANDERSON EDMUND DULAC ARTHUR RACKHAM
CULMER BARNES RUTH HALLOCK FREDERICK REMINGTON
FRANK L. BAUM FLORENCE HARRISON F. REUTERDAHL
J. CARTER BEARD R. BRUCE HORSFALL HARRY ROUNTREE
W. T. BENDA GEORGE W. JOY CARL RUNGIUS
JOHN BENNETT E. W. KEMBLE EDMUND J. SAWYER
ANNA WHELAN BETTS EMILIE BENSON KNIPE ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
R. B. BIRCH CHARLES F. LESTER R. SHRADOR
E. H. BLASHFIELD J. C. LEYENDECKER HAROLD SICHEL
R. I. BRASHER H. MOORE HUGH SPENCER
PAMELA VINTON BROWN H. A. OGDEN ALICE BARBER STEPHENS
HARRISON CADY MONRO S. ORR FRANK STICK
BESS BRUCE CLEVELAND MAXFIELD PARRISH SARA S. STILLWELL
F. Y. CORY MALCOLM PATTERSON C. R. SWAN
LILIAN A. COVEY E. C. PEIXOTTO ALBERTINE RANDALL WHEELAN

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

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