Edited by
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
with an
Introduction and Little Letters on Poetry
by
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
FOR the purpose of compiling this book Mrs. Riggs [Kate Douglas Wiggin] and her sister, Miss Smith, have explored practically the entire body of English poetry, and have spent two years in the work of selection and arrangement. The result, it is hardly necessary to say, in view of Mrs. Riggs’ well-known sympathy with the needs and interests of young life, is the greatest work ever planned to put the boys and girls of America and England in possession of the poetic heritage of their literature. The volume may well serve as a general anthology for all ages, so representative is it and so complete. And yet so skillfully has the work been done that nothing is introduced which might not serve immediately to win the attention of the young reader and to stimulate his curiosity to make independent discoveries in the broad fields that lie beyond the covers of his book. A second volume is in preparation. It will be entitled The Posy Ring, and will aim to interest still younger readers than those to which Golden Numbers will make an appeal.
By A. Conan Doyle
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Illustrated by Sidney Paget
The London Chronicle, in a review headed
“THE ZENITH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES,”