TYPES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A COLLECTION OF
THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
FOR CHILDREN

FOR USE IN COLLEGES, NORMAL SCHOOLS
AND LIBRARY SCHOOLS



COLLECTED AND EDITED

BY

WALTER BARNES, A.M.




Application of the world's knowledge to the world's needs is the
guiding aim of this publishing house, and it is in conformity to this
aim that _Types of Children's Literature_ is published. There is
need of helpful direction for parents and teachers who wish to place
within reach of every child the beauty, wisdom, and knowledge stored
up in the world's best literature for children. The domain is so
vast, so rich, and so varied that a single volume which presents
specimens of all the different types for study and analysis by older
readers and for reading by the children themselves, may hope to make
easy and natural for children the entrance to the pleasant land of