The cover image was restored by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
The Birch and the Star
and
Other Stories
Copyright, 1915
BY
ROW, PETERSON & COMPANY
Foreword
The realistic stories in this book, given for the first time to American children, were written in the Norwegian by Jörgen Moe and in the Swedish by Zacharias Topelius. Both authors have won fame in their native lands as writers of juvenile literature. Their works show sincere sympathy with child life and great power to interpret it artistically.