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Title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Author: Charles H. Sylvester

Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23405]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE CANOE RACE]

Journeys
Through Bookland

A NEW AND ORIGINAL
PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
FOR CHILDREN

_BY_
CHARLES H. SYLVESTER
_Author of English and American Literature_

VOLUME SEVEN
_New Edition_

[Illustration]

Chicago
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1922
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 1
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN _William Cullen Bryant_ 4
TO A MOUSE _Robert Burns_ 5
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY _Robert Burns_ 8
THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET _Samuel Wordsworth_ 11
BANNOCKBURN _Robert Burns_ 15
BOAT SONG _Sir Walter Scott_ 17
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY _Washington Irving_ 20
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 29
THE BLACK HAWK TRAGEDY _Edwin D. Coe_ 58
THE PETRIFIED FERN _Mary Bolles Branch_ 77
AN EXCITING CANOE RACE _