The Baby's Own Aesop

Walter Crane

The Frog Prince Princess Belle-Etoile Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp First published by George Routledge 1874 THE FROG PRINCE.

Walter Crane

CHAPTER I Origin and Function of Outline--Silhouette--Definition of Boundaries by--Power of Characterization by--Formation of Letters--Methods of Drawing in Line--The Progressive Method--The...

Walter Crane

ÆSOP'S FABLES [Illustration] THE FOX & THE GRAPES This Fox has a longing for grapes, He jumps, but the bunch still escapes.

Walter Crane

[Illustration: GIRLS AND BOYS] [Music: 1. Girls and boys come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave your sleep; Come to your playfellows in the...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.