A Butterfly's Wing[207]
A Mermaid's Song[182]
A Studious Elf[234]
A Tale of Bremen[101]
A Thoughtless Daisy[351]
Cloud Pictures[374]
Dream-time[310]
Fairy Pictures[163]
'Fire!'[243]
Fire Pictures[258]
For the Little Ones[159]
Going to Bed[126]
Heart's-ease[387]
Little Things[62]
Little Workers[190]
Looking Up and Looking Down[299]
Lying Awake at Night[115]
Made Beautiful[379]
Morning[339]
Mr. and Mrs. Brown's Journey in the Family Coach[406]
My Dreams[147]
My Garden[291]
Night and Day[396]
No Harm Meant[6]
Perhaps[110]
Santa Claus[358]
Santa Claus's Postman[171]
Stop Thief![227]
The Almond and the Raisin[83]
The Bee[54]
The Daisy[75]
The Disappointed Hen[26]
The Disobedient Mouse[213]
The Fairies' Night[363]
The Fairy Queen's Gift[34]
The Fountain[319]
The Glow-worm[195]
The Grumbling Rose[276]
The Little Blind Linnet[254]
The Moon-ship[70]
The Mysterious Visitor[139]
The Night before My Birthday[94]
The Pedlar[407]
The Princess has Come[286]
The Shepherd Moon[131]
The Singers Yet To Be[218]
The Singing Bird[402]
The String of Pearls[384]
The Undecided Travellers[43]
The Wrong Wind[18]
Time Flies[257]
Two Little Drops of Rain[326]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

COLOURED PLATES.

Close on His Heels,[Frontispiece]
The Boy Doctor,facing p. [64]
A Fight to a Finish,facing p. [128]
Opportunity Makes the Thief,facing p. [192]
'Chorus, Please!'facing p. [256]
Tent Pegging,facing p. [320]
Page
A Brave Lad[309]
A Chatterbox Costume[348]
A Clay Grain Storehouse[293]
A Contest with the Longbow[213]
A Cow Waggon Encamped and on the March[364]
'All went well at first'[392]
'A Madi village being removed'[253]
An Arab Bakery[357]
'A native lay at the foot of a tree'[129]
'A terrible sight met their view'[289]
'A wren built its nest in the pocket'[325]
'By waters still in sweet spring-time'[388]
'Charlie Eccles half lay, half sat upon the ground'[97]
'Colonel Smith emptied the glass'[361]
'Concealment was impossible'[137]
Crossbow and Arrows used for Sport[213]
Egyptian 'Sakiveh'[44]
Egyptian 'Shadoof'[44]
'Fast Asleep!'[301]
'Father, is that my present?'[377]
'Fire!'[244]
'Give me back my money'[356]
Grain Huts[293]
'He finished by backing hard into the small wooden gate'[400]
'He handed John an official paper'[180]
'He has a winning tongue'[408]
'He placed a sovereign on the counter'[121]
'He placed the "drum" on a chair, and practised diligently'[33]
'He ran out just as he was'[84]
'Here is a nice little bit of work for you, my lad'[268]
'He sat silent, waiting for the reply'[265]
'He seized one of the ladders'[85]
'He staggered forward and reached the landing'[240]
'He swung himself off the ground'[329]
'He was chaired all round Covent Garden'[156]
'He was greeted by a jet of water'[152]
'His shoulder caught me as he passed'[153]
'Hold hard there!'[197]
'I held a long stick for him to hook on'[93]
'In his despair he clenched his fist'[4]
Iron-smelting in India[285]
'I say that he is a French spy!'[305]
'Is the bird alive or dead?'[277]
'I struck furiously at the brute'[385]
'I struggled up'[260]
'It became necessary to descend the shaft'[41]
'It is only the masterful calf[269]
'It's Captain Halliard!'[393]
'I was received with joy'[205]
'I will come with you at once'[365]
'Just then a man on horseback appeared'[25]
'King Louis leaped fully armed into the sea'[29]
'Let me have a doll to play with'[208]
'Lieutenant Fegan led a gallant resistance'[241]
Loading a Military Crossbow[212]
'Mag raised her shrill note of warning'[53]
'Managed to upset a wooden watch-house'[108]
'Mother, this chair was full of gold pieces!'[56]
'Mr. Merry was just leaving the house'[389]
Muriel's First Patient[328]
'My partner being the lamp-post'[337]
'No room for Jealousy'[404]
'One at a time, they found themselves pinioned'[105]
'One of the largest pounded upon the wall with his tusks'[45]
Peeps into Nature's Nurseries (Illustrations to),[12], [37], [60], [76],[76], [100], [101], [132], [164], [165], [204], [236], [237], [276], [300], [340], [341], [372]
'Piggy lifted the heavy lid to feed upon the cheese'[141]
'Please, sir, will you—would you buy a pincushion?'[92]
Ploughing in Syria[316]
Plymouth Breakwater[188]
Prairie Dogs[61]
'Scores of angry bees came buzzing round her'[109]
'See! A Matabele!'[193]
'Set to the hardest and most menial work'[57]
'She was floating away in the midst of the stream'[280]
'Some one is lost in the snow, and Lassie knows it'[373]
'Soon the two little mischief-makers were busy at
work on the pictures'[140]
'Stalked while I myself stalked the water-buck'[36]
'Stepping down from the vase and crowding round Hugh's bed'[177]
'Stop thief!'[228]
'The African beauty was greatly taken with Lander'[209]
'The bear would eat and drink in a truly dignified fashion'[249]
The Birmingham Water-works[317]
'The carpenter took off his coat'[281]
The Cooking Lesson[77]
'The crowd drew him along in triumph'[308]
'The dog darted after the bat'[16]
'The dog gave the horse the turnip'[160]
'The dog took kindly to her foster-children'[17]
The Duck-billed Platypus[181]
The Egg Poacher[65]
The first Passenger to cross the Brooklyn Bridge[1]
The first Railway Journey in England[80]
The Forth Bridge[245]
The Giant of the Treasure Caves (Illustrations to),[8], [9],[24], [32], [40], [48], [49], [64], [72], [73], [88], [96], [104], [112], [113],[124], [136], [144], [145], [157], [168], [173], [184], [185], [200], [201],[216], [224], [232], [233], [248], [256], [264], [272], [273], [288], [296],[297], [312], [313], [321], [336], [344], [345], [360], [368], [369], [384]
The Great Eastern[149]
'The great work was soon accomplished'[120]
'The head of a snake thrust out close to him'[169]
'The kitten at once began lapping'[333]
'The lad emptied the pail over his employer'[133]
'The luckless fugitives were dragged forth'[89]
The Manchester Ship Canal[284]
'The most wily and cunning black pig that ever made his escape'[192]
'The motor came to a standstill'[401]
The Music of the Nations (Illustrations to),[21], [52], [69],[116], [148], [172], [196], [229], [261], [292], [324], [380]
'Then came the difficult task of bringing down the little lad'[13]
The Nile Dam at Assuan[220]
'The pike seized the stoat'[161]
'The precious picnic-basket rolling down the turf'[376]
'The promise of a thousand songs'[217]
'There, still on the boulder, was Collie, barking'[352]
'The thing exploded in the air'[225]
'The third time he collapsed, and was pulled back[353]
The Union Jack[348]
'The weight of the two birds had the desired effect'[189]
The Words of Command[117]
'They began to examine the damaged axle'[332]
'They were passing a field of ripe corn'[409]
'They were playing with me as though I were a big mouse'[68]
'This is a present which your uncle has sent you'[397]
'Three yelping, delighted dogs'[28]
'Throw your bad temper overboard'[304]
'Tim pressed up the lid with his head'[412]
Victoria Falls[128]
'"Watch him!" said Douglas'[252]
'What a feast I had!'[221]
'What did the strange beast mean by gazing at him?'[381]
'What do they want with me?'[320]
'"What is the matter?" I asked him'[81]
'Who's that that dares to serve me so?'[5]
'Why don't you take off your hat to me?'[176]
'Why not start, a round of story-telling?'[20]
Yaks[125]
'"You have found me out," said the captain'[257]

Chatterbox.