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Classics for Children

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  • Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.
  • *First Series: Supplementary to the Third Reader.
  • *Second Series: Supplementary to the Fourth Reader.
  • *Æsop's Fables, with selections from Krilof and La Fontaine.
  • *Kingsley's Water-Babies: A Story for a Land-Baby.
  • *Ruskin's King of the Golden River: A Legend of Stiria.
  • *The Swiss Family Robinson. Abridged.
  • Robinson Crusoe. Concluding with his departure from the island.
  • *Kingsley's Greek Heroes.
  • *Martineau's Peasant and Prince.
  • Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. "Meas. for Meas." omitted.
  • Scott's Tales of a Grandfather.
  • Scott's Lady of the Lake.
  • Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel.
  • Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses.
  • Church's Stories of the Old World.
  • Scott's Talisman. Complete.
  • Scott's Quentin Durward. Slightly abridged.
  • Irving's Sketch Book. Six selections, including "Rip van Winkle."
  • Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  • Scott's Guy Mannering. Complete.
  • Scott's Ivanhoe. Complete.
  • Johnson's Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia.
  • Gulliver's Travels. The Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag.
  • *Plutarch's Lives. From Clough's Translation.
  • Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.
  • Hale's Arabian Nights.
  • Scott's Rob Roy. Complete.
  • *Life of Franklin.
  • Washington and His Country. Irving and Fiske.
  • Selections from Ruskin.
  • Tom Brown at Rugby.
  • The Two Retreats. Xenophon's and Napoleon's.

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