YOUNG PEOPLE

A COLLECTION OF THE BEST READING

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

WALTER CAMP

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, ASSISTED BY THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL STAFF

WALTER CAMP, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.

MELVIL DEWEY, Director of New York State Library.

PHILIP P. WELLS, Librarian Yale Law School.

C. G. D. ROBERTS, Editor and Historian.

CHARLES WELSH, Author, Lecturer, Managing Editor "Young Folks' Library."

ARTHUR T. HADLEY, President Yale University.

BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, President University of California.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, Author, Traveller, and Poet. Author of "The Light of Asia," etc.

ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR., Author and Educator. Secretary Yale University.

CYNTHIA WESTOVER ALDEN, Author, Editor. Founder International Sunshine Society.

HOWARD PYLE, Artist-Author. Author and Illustrator of "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood."

EDWARD KIRK RAWSON, Author. Superintendent Naval War

Records.

BLISS CARMAN, Journalist and Poet.

HENRY S. PRITCHETT, President Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

RICHARD HENRY DANA, Lawyer, Author and Lecturer.

ROBERT E. PEARY, Lieutenant and Civil Engineer, U. S. N. Arctic Explorer, Author and Inventor.

W. P. TRENT, Professor of English Literature, Columbia University. ABBIE FARWELL BROWN, Author of Children's Stories.

EDWARD BROOKS, Author, Superintendent Public Schools of Philadelphia.

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, Author.

OPIE READ, Journalist and Author.

NATHAN H. DOLE, Writer and Translator.