EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS
With Cover, Title-Page, and End Paper designed in colours by F. D. Bedford
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The Globe.—"Is, we think, the best of its kind—partly because it is so comprehensive and so catholic, partly because it consists so largely of matter not too hackneyed, partly because that matter is so pleasantly arranged. The verse here brought together is full of agreeable variety, it is from many sources, some hitherto not drawn upon; and it has been grouped in sections with a happy sense of congruity and freshness."
PREFACE (Addressed to Children)
Unless you are very keenly set upon reading to yourself, I think I should advise you to ask some one to read these pieces aloud, not too many at a time. And I want you to understand that there is a kind of poetry that is finer far than anything here: poetry to which this book is, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply a "stepping-stone." When you feel, as I hope some day you will feel, that these pages no longer satisfy, then you must turn to the better thing.
E. V. L.
The following are the various headings under which the Contents are grouped:—
Two Thoughts—The Open Air—The Year—Christmas—The Country Life—Blossoms from Herrick and Blake—Birds—Dogs and Horses—Compressed Natural History—Unnatural History—Poets at Play—Counsel—Old-Fashioned Girls—Marjorie Fleming, Poetess—Old-Fashioned Boys—Looking Forward—From "Hiawatha"—Good Fellows—The Sea and the Island—A Bundle of Stories—Bedtime—A Few Remarks.