THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUNG FOLKS
Compiled by Burton E. Stevenson, Editor of "The Home Book of Verse."
With cover, and illustrations in color and black and white by WILLY POGANY. Over 500 pages, large 12mo. $2.25 net.
Not a rambling, hap-hazard collection but a vade-mecum
for youth from the ages of six or seven to sixteen or seventeen.
It opens with Nursery Rhymes and lullabies, progresses
through child rhymes and jingles to more mature
nonsense verse; then come fairy verses and Christmas
poems; then nature verse and favorite rhymed stories; then
through the trumpet and drum period (where an attempt
is made to teach true patriotism) to the final appeal of
"Life Lessons" and "A Garland of Gold" (the great
poems for all ages).
This arrangement secures sequence of sentiment and a sort of cumulative appeal. Nearly all the children's classics are included, and along with them a body of verse not so well known but almost equally deserving. There are many real "finds," most of which have never before appeared in any anthology.
Mr. Stevenson has banished doleful and pessimistic verse, and has dwelt on hope, courage, cheerfulness and helpfulness. The book should serve, too, as an introduction to the greater poems, informing taste for them and appreciation of them, against the time when the boy or girl, grown into youth and maiden, is ready to swim out into the full current of English poetry.
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
