On ground that is over his young readers' heads.
If a truant's adventures, fair reading you find,
The good ship "Atalanta," you'd bear in your mind,
And you'll follow "aboard" it, the hero whose fate
Henry Frith's thrilling pages know how to relate.
Next in "Chirp and Chatter" from field and from tree,
Young children taught lessons by L. Banks you'll see.
"Queen Maud," with her "orders" by Louisa Crow,
Shows pride in a haughty young maiden brought low:
While in the "Squire's Grandson," J. Callwell proves how