Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 404
ingsis his power of vivid description, his ability to make ussee things. Nor does he make us wait while he gives uspage-long descriptions; he suggests pictures to us witha few words. It may be safely said of descriptions, whenthey are part of a story, that those which are given in thefewest words,… … JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER By Grace E. Sellon?^EAR the town of Haverhill, Massa-chusetts, in the old homestead of hisfathers family, the poet John Green-leaf A\niittier was born December 17,1807. Like all the other children whogeneration after generation had cometo live in this Quaker dwelling, he…
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