Volume I Fun and Thought for Little Folk
THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
INCORPORATED
New York
Manufactured in the U. S. A.
The Editorial Board of the University Society Inc
General Editor: William Byron Forbush, Ph.D., Litt.D.
Author of “The Boy Problem”
| Technical Editor: | Music Editor: | |
| Herbert Treadwell Wade | Winton James Baltzell, A.B., Mus. Bac. | |
| Technical Editor of The New International | Secretary of The National Academy of | |
| Encyclopedia | Music | |
| Literature Editor: | Associate Editor: | |
| Rossiter Johnson, Ph.D., LL.D. | Daniel Edwin Wheeler | |
| Editor of “Little Classics” | Editorial Director of the Edison Industries |
Office Editor: Jennie Ellis Burdick
Editor of “The Children’s Own Library”
Partial List of Special Contributors
| JOSEPH H. ADAMS, | HUGO FROELICH AND BONNIE E. SNOW, | |
| Editor of | Authors of | |
| “Harper’s Practical Books for Boys” | “Industrial Art” textbooks | |
| T. GEORGE ALLEN, | JULIA A. GLEASON, | |
| Curator of the Oriental Museum, | Teacher of Sewing, | |
| University of Chicago | Cornell University | |
| MARY W. ARTOIS, | WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D., L.H.D., | |
| Traveler and Writer | Lecturer and Author | |
| ROGER W. BABSON, | ISABEL F. HAPGOOD, | |
| Author of “Central America” | Author of “Russian Rambles” | |
| GRACE GERTRUDE BARDEN, | HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE, | |
| Teacher of Domestic Science | Author and Critic | |
| HARRY K. BEASLEY, | ROSE HENDERSON, | |
| Electrical Engineer and Author | Biographer and Travel Writer | |
| C. S. BRAININ, Ph.D., | HENRY WALTON JONES, | |
| Professor of Astronomy, | Fact Articles | |
| Columbia University | ||
| M. ALSTON BUCKLEY, | GRACE LEE KNELL, | |
| Retold Tales and Fact Articles | Teacher of Manual Training, | |
| Ridgewood, N.J., Schools | ||
| FRANK H. CHELEY, | O. IVAN LEE, | |
| Editor of the “Father and Son Library” | Analytical Chemist | |
| LAURA CLARKE, | CHARLES HENRY LERRIGO, M.D., | |
| Author of Fact Articles | Former President of the | |
| Kansas State Board of Health | ||
| CARL HARRY CLAUDY, | HARRIS W. MOORE, | |
| Author of “First Book of Photography” | Author of “Manual Training Toys” | |
| JOHN H. CLIFFORD, | JOHN T. NICHOLS, | |
| Associate-Editor of “The Young Folks’ | Curator of Fish at the | |
| Treasury,” “The Mother’s Book,” etc. | American Museum of Natural History | |
| CLAYTON S. COOPER | T. GILBERT PEARSON, | |
| Author of | Executive Secretary of the National | |
| “Understanding South America” | Association of Audubon Societies | |
| LEE S. CRANDALL, | E. L. D. SEYMOUR, | |
| Curator, New York Zoological Park | Farm Editor of Country Life | |
| WALTER ALDEN DYER, | MORGAN SHEPARD (JOHN MARTIN), | |
| Author and former Managing Editor of | Writer of | |
| Country Life in America | Illustrated Letters to Children | |
| WILLIAM H. EASTON, Ph.D., | ROBERT W. SHUFELDT, M.D., U.S.M.C., | |
| Publicity Department of the | Head of the Science Bureau, | |
| Westinghouse Electric | Washington, D. C. | |
| and Manufacturing Co. | ||
| ARTHUR ELSON, | ELVA S. SMITH, | |
| Musical Critic and Author of | Children’s Librarian of the | |
| “The Book of Musical Knowledge” | Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh | |
| PHILIP D. FAGANS, | MABELL SHIPPIE CLARKE SMITH, | |
| Executive Secretary of the | Author and Lecturer | |
| Woodcraft League | ||
| JOHN CLARKE FARBER, A.M., | MARY V. WORSTELL, | |
| Lieutenant, United States National Army | Author, Editor, and Lecturer | |
| LOUISE MAUNSELL FIELD, | KATHARINE S. WORTHINGTON, | |
| Fiction Reviewer of The New York Times | Teacher of English in the | |
| Finch School | ||
| EHRMA G. FILER, | ||
| Fact Articles |
Partial List of Authors Represented
in the boys and girls bookshelf by selections from their writings
| FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS, | WASHINGTON IRVING, | |
| Mechanical Engineer and Author | Historian, Essayist, and Novelist | |
| ROALD AMUNDSEN, | TUDOR JENKS, | |
| Leader of the Norwegian Polar | Author of “Boys’ Book of Explorations,” | |
| Expedition which reached the South Pole | “Electricity for Young People,” etc. | |
| HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, | CHARLES KINGSLEY, | |
| Danish Poet and Fabulist | Clergyman and Author | |
| CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY, | GUSTAVE KOBBE, | |
| Writer of Stories and Books for | Author of | |
| Children and Young Folks | “Wagner’s Music Dramas Analyzed” | |
| RALPH HENRY BARBOUR, | CHARLES LAMB, | |
| Author of “The Crimson Sweater” | Critic, Humorist, and Author | |
| and other books for boys | ||
| L. FRANK BAUM, | SIDNEY LANIER, | |
| Author of “The Wizard of Oz,” “Queen Zixie | Poet and Critic | |
| of Ix” and other children’s books | ||
| ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Ph.D., M.D., Sc.D., | EDMUND LEAMY, | |
| Scientist and Inventor | Author of “The Golden Spears” | |
| JOHN STUART BLACKIE, | MAUD McKNIGHT LINDSAY, | |
| Scottish Scholar and Man-of-letters | Author of “Mother Stories” | |
| RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE, | HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, | |
| English Novelist | Poet | |
| JOHN HENRY BONER, | SILAS ALPHA LOTTRIDGE, | |
| Editor and Poet | Author of | |
| “Animal Snapshots and How Made” | ||
| ELBRIDGE STREETER BROOKS, | FREDERIC A. LUCAS, | |
| Author of “Historic Boys” | Director of the American | |
| and “Historic Girls” | Museum of Natural History | |
| WINIFRED BUCK, | INEZ N. McFEE, | |
| Author of “The American Girl” | Author of “Tales of Common Things” | |
| GELETT BURGESS, | PETER MacQUEEN, | |
| Draughtsman and Author | Lecturer and Author of | |
| “Around the World With the Flag” | ||
| THORNTON WALDO BURGESS, | JOHN MILTON, | |
| Author of “Old Mother West Wind” | Poet | |
| ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, | ALFRED NOYES, | |
| Poet | Poet | |
| ROBERT BROWNING, | ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, | |
| Poet | Author of “The Van Dwellers,” | |
| “Mark Twain” and other works | ||
| ROBERT BURNS, | GIFFORD PINCHOT, | |
| Poet | Systematic Forester | |
| CHARLES H. CAFFIN, | EMILIE POULSSON, | |
| Author of “A Guide to Pictures” | Author of “Finger Plays” | |
| CHARLES DICKENS, | LAURA ELIZABETH RICHARDS, | |
| Novelist | Author of the “Hildegarde” Books | |
| and “The Golden Windows” | ||
| MARY MAPES DODGE, | JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, | |
| Author and Editor | Poet | |
| NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, | JOHN RUSKIN, | |
| Author of | Art Critic and Writer | |
| “Young Folks’ History of Russia,” etc. | ||
| ALEXANDRE DUMAS, | SIR WALTER SCOTT, | |
| Novelist | Novelist and Poet | |
| M. S. EMERY, | ANNA SEWELL | |
| Author of “How to Enjoy Pictures” | Novelist | |
| EUGENE FIELD, | ROBERT W. SERVICE, | |
| Poet | Author of “The Spell of the Yukon” | |
| WILLIAM LOVELL FINLEY, | ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, | |
| State Biologist of Oregon | Artist, Author, and Lecturer | |
| EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH, | WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, | |
| State Ornithologist of Massachusetts | Poet and Dramatist | |
| MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN, | PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, | |
| Novelist | Poet | |
| MATTHEW PAGE GAFFNEY, | VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, | |
| Headmaster of the Roger Ascham School | Arctic Explorer | |
| REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, | |
| Author of “Santa Claus on a Lark,” | Poet, Essayist, and Novelist | |
| “Social Salvation,” etc. | ||
| JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, | ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, | |
| Author of “Uncle Remus Stories” | Poet | |
| ELIZABETH HARRISON, | MRS. GUDRUN THORNE-THOMSEN, | |
| President of the National | Author of “East o’ the Sun and West o’ the | |
| Kindergarten College | Moon,” and other Norwegian Folk Tales | |
| NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, | EVERETT TITSWORTH TOMLINSON | |
| Novelist | Ph.D., L.H.D., | |
| Author of “Three Young Continentals” | ||
| CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER, | CAROLYN WELLS, | |
| Author of | Author of “A Nonsense Anthology” | |
| “Big Game Fish of the United States” | and the “Marjorie” Books | |
| VICTOR HUGO, | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, | |
| Poet and Novelist | Poet and Author | |
| FREDERICK WINTHROP HUTCHINSON, | LEONARD WOOD, | |
| Author of “The Men Who Found America” | Major-General, United States Army | |
| JEAN INGELOW, | ORVILLE WRIGHT, | |
| Poet and Novelist | Aviator and Inventor |
Partial List of Illustrators
Examples of whose work appear in the Boys and Girls Bookshelf
| John W. Alexander | F. S. Church | Lucy Fitch Perkins | ||
| Annie Anderson | Clyde O. Deland | Howard Pyle | ||
| Florence Anderson | Edmund Dulac | Arthur Rackham | ||
| Culmer Barnes | Ruth Hallock | Frederick Remington | ||
| Frank L. Baum | Florence Harrison | F. Reuterdahl | ||
| J. Carter Beard | R. Bruce Horsfall | Harry Rountree | ||
| W. T. Benda | George W. Joy | Carl Rungius | ||
| John Bennett | E. W. Kemble | Edmund J. Sawyer | ||
| Anna Whelan Betts | Emilie Benson Knipe | Ernest Thompson Seton | ||
| R. B. Birch | Charles F. Lester | R. Shrador | ||
| E. H. Blashfield | J. C. Leyendecker | Harold Sichel | ||
| R. I. Brasher | H. Moore | Hugh Spencer | ||
| Pamela Vinton Brown | H. A. Ogden | Alice Barber Stephens | ||
| Harrison Cady | Monro S. Orr | Frank Stick | ||
| Bess Bruce Cleveland | Maxfield Parrish | Sara S. Stillwell | ||
| F. Y. Cory | Malcolm Patterson | C. R. Swan | ||
| Lilian A. Covey | E. C. Peixotto | Albertine Randall Wheelan |