M.A. Titmarsh.
This fairy extravaganza--Thackeray's only production for children--was written for a little sick girl.
Poetry, Collections Of Poetry And Prose, And Stories Adapted From Great Authors
Children are lucky to be children nowadays, for the idea is pretty well disseminated that the very choicest from all the garnered riches of the great world of literature should be given them, that they may early be possessed of thoughts and feelings that are true and large, sweet and beautiful.
Richard Burton.
Gayley, C. M., and M.C. Flaherty (Editors).
Poetry of the People.
Ginn. .50
Poems illustrative of the history and national spirit of England, Scotland, Ireland, and America.--Title-Page.
The compilers have given us a volume of verse chosen from that which is "most simple, most hearty, most truly characteristic of the people, their tradition, history, and spirit; ... poetry sometimes by, and sometimes not, but always for, the people; poems that were household words with our fathers and mothers, and lay close to the heart because of the heart."