COMPILED BY EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS THE OPEN ROAD A little book for wayfarers containing some 140 selections, mostly complete poems, from over 60 authors. Illustrated cover linings, green and gold flexible covers, 326 pp. 6th printing. $1.50 postpaid. Also available in leather. THE FRIENDLY TOWN A little book for the urbane containing over 200 selections in verse and prose from some 100 authors. Illustrated cover linings, red and gold flexible covers, 380 pp. $1.50 postpaid. Also available in leather. A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN Over 300 poems from 80 authors. With illustrated title-page and cover linings in color, two other illustrations, and elaborate binding. 3d printing. $2.00 postpaid. New and popular edition, without illustrations, $1.00 net; by mail, $1.10. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 3464 night, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLIC 953087A ASTOR, h To B. Alone, the country life-how sweet! But wood and meadow, heath and hill, The dewy morn, the noonday heat, The brake fern's odorous retreat, With you are sweeter still. ER FROM C. Q MAY 1938 EXPLANATION THIS little book aims at nothing but providing companionship on the road for city-dwellers who make holiday. It has no claims to completeness of any kind: it is just a garland of good or enkindling poetry and prose fitted to urge folk into the open air, and, once there, to keep them glad they came-to slip easily from the pocket beneath a tree or among the heather, and provide lazy reading for the time of rest, with perhaps a phrase or two for the feet to step to and the mind to brood on when the rest is over. April, 1899. E. V. L. And hark! how blithe the Throstle sings! She has a world of ready wealth, One impulse from a vernal wood Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings: Misshapes the beauteous form of things; Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives. William Wordsworth |