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Title: Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

Author: Various

Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush

Release Date: December 2, 2006 [EBook #19993]

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CHILDHOOD'S FAVORITES

AND FAIRY STORIES

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

EDWARD EVERETT HALE

WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH

_Editors_

JENNIE ELLIS BURDICK

_Assistant Editor_

Volume One [Illustration: The Young Folks Treasury]

NEW YORK

THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY

INCORPORATED

1927

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INC.

COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1917, BY
THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY INC.

EDITORS

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, L.H.D., LL.D.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D., LL.D.
WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, Ph.D., Litt.D.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

JENNIE ELLIS BURDICK

_Partial List of Authors and Editors Represented in The Young Folks
Treasury by Selections from Their Writings:_

WOODROW WILSON, Twenty-eighth President of the United States.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Twenty-sixth President of the United States.
HENRY VAN DYKE, poet, essayist, and diplomatist.
LYMAN ABBOTT, editor of "The Outlook."
RUDYARD KIPLING, poet and story-teller.
GENERAL SIR R. S. BADEN-POWELL, founder of the Boy Scouts.
BECKLES WILLSON, author of "The Romance of Canada."
IDA PRENTICE WHITCOMB, author of "Young People's Story of Art."
ELLEN VELVIN, writer of animal stories.
MARY MACGREGOR, author of "King Arthur's Knights," etc.
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR, author of boys' stories.
T. GILBERT PEARSON, executive secretary, National Association
of Audubon Societies.
JOSEPH JACOBS, authority upon folklore.
THEODORE WOOD, writer on natural history.
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, writer of stories about natural
history and founder of the Woodcraft League.
AMY STEEDMAN, writer on biography.
EVERETT T. TOMLINSON, author of boys' stories.
RALPH D. PAINE, au