HE TURN'D HIS FACE AND KISS'D HER CLIMBING (Color Plate)
Donn P Crane
JONATHAN SWIFT (Halftone)
GULLIVER'S JOURNEY TO THE METROPOLIS Iris Weddell White
THE EMPEROR VISITS GULLIVER Iris Weddell White
GULLIVER AND THE PISTOL (Color Plate) G H Mitchell
GULLIVER'S WATCH IS BORNE AWAY Iris Weddell White
GULLIVER ER TAKES THE ENEMY'S FLEET Iris Weddell White
GULLIVER BRINGS IN THE DRIFTING BOAT Harry L Gage
THE BABY SEIZES GULLIVER Iris Weddell White
A GALE WITH THEIR FANS Iris Weddell White
GULLIVER AND THE KING Iris Weddell White
"VICTOR I WILL REMAIN" R F Babcock
CHILDREN WITH HORNBOOKS Laura K Deal
ARTHUR DRAWS THE SWORD Jessie Arms
KING ARTHUR (Halftone)
THE WEDDING OF ARTHUR AND GUINEVERE Jessie Arms
MERLIN SAVES ARTHUR Donn P Crane
ARTHUR RECEIVES EXCALIBUR Donn P Crane
THE DAMSEL LET FALL HER MANTLE Donn P Crane
THE LIGHT Donn P Crane
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (Halftone)
GERAINT HEARS ENID SINGING Donn P Crane
ENID LEADS THE WAY Donn P Crane
ENID WATCHING BY GERAINT Donn P Crane
SIR GALAHAD Jessie Arms
THE SHIP APPROACHES THE CITY OF SARRAS Jessie Arms
THE LAST APPEARANCE OF THE SANGREAI Donn P Crane
THE BARGE MOVED FROM THE BRINK Donn P Crane
CUT ADRIFT IN HUDSON'S BAY R F Babcock
SAVAGES ON THE SHORE R F Babcock
BRUCE KILLS COMYN Donn P Crane
SHE BROUGHT HER TWO SONS Donn P Crane
THE ASCENT TO THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH Donn P Crane
BRUCE SLAYS SIR HENRY DE BOHUN Donn P Crane
BRUCE BEHELD A SPIDER Donn P Crane
I SAW A PILGRIM STAND Donn P Crane
HELD THE HEART ALOFT Donn P Crane
I WAS A VIKING OLD R F Babcock
THREE WEEKS WE WESTWARD BORE R F Babcock
I CAST LOOSE MY BUFF COAT Donn P Crane
HALF A DOZEN INDIANS BOLTED IN R F Babcock
HE FISHED OUT AN OLD BUNGTOWN CENT R F Babcock
CHASING THE GEESE TO GET A NEW QUILL R F Babcock
THE FIRE SHIP GRAPPLED THE SPANIARD Everett E Lowry
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Halftone)
ON THE MARCH Everett E Lowry
THE AMBUSH Everett E Lowry
"STONEWALL" JACKSON (Halftone)
THE LION HAD JUMPED INTO THE CROCODILE'S MOUTH
Donn P Crane
I BEHELD A NOBLE STAG Donn P Crane
THE HIND PART OF THE POOR CREATURE WAS MISSING
Donn P Crane
WARRIORS OF THE MOON Donn P Crane
WE DESCENDED SAFELY ON A MOUNTAIN OF ICE Donn P Crane
THE PARSON FIDDLED Donn P Crane
"AIN'T YOU GOING TO PUT THE BOOK IN" Herbert N Rudeen
"WHEN I WAS YOUNG" Herbert N Rudeen
ONE DREADFUL SOUND HE SEEMED TO HEAR R F Babcock
RUGBY SCHOOL (Color Plate)
THE BULLY CAUGHT IT ON HIS ELBOW Louis Grell
"A FIGHT!" Louis Grell
TOM SITS ON MARTIN'S KNEE Louis Grell
JONATHAN SWIFT
The father of Jonathan Swift was a Dublin lawyer who died just as he was beginning what might have been a profitable career, and before his only son was born. The widow was left with so little money that when her son was born in November, 1667, she was not able to take care of him. Her brother-in-law undertook to provide for mother and child.
He procured a nurse who became so attached to her little charge that when she received a small sum of money from a relative in England and was compelled to go to that country, she stole the baby and took him with her across the channel. It was more than three years before Jonathan was brought back to Dublin, but he had been tenderly cared for, and though but five years of age had been taught to spell and to read in the Bible.
A year later he was sent to a good school, where he made rapid progress. However, he could not have been always studious, for visitors to the school are still shown a desk in which his name is deeply cut.
He was fourteen years old when he entered the University of Dublin, where his record was not a very satisfactory one. When it came time for him to graduate, his standing was too poor for him to take his degree, but after some delay it was given him "by special favor," a term then used in Dublin to show that a candidate did not pass in his examinations.
After this, Swift remained three years at the University under the pretense of studying, but he was chiefly notorious for his connection with a gang of wild and disobedient students who were often under censure of the faculty for their irregularities. For one offense Swift was severely censured and compelled upon his knees to beg pardon of the dean. This punishment he did not forgive, and long afterward he wrote bitter things about Dr. Allen, the dean.
Yet while indulging in these follies, Swift learned to write well and became noted for a peculiar satirical style that afterward made him much feared by the government.
When the uncle who had first supported Swift had died, a second uncle and his son took up the burden. At one time this cousin sent Swift quite a large sum of money, a fact which seemed to change the nature of the wild young spendthrift, who thereafter remained economical; in fact, he became niggardly in his saving.
Swift's second degree from the University was earned creditably, and he was much pleased with the praise and respect with which he was received. This was owing to two years of diligent study which he spent at the home of Sir William Temple, a leading statesman of the time and a distant relative by marriage of Swift's mother.