Book/Printed Material A wonder-book for girls and boys
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Image 1 of A wonder-book for girls and boys- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 2 of A wonder-book for girls and boys LIBRARY OF CONGRESS^ ChapTEZ^jCopyright No, ShellALliNt: \c^ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 9 of A wonder-book for girls and boys October 16, 189 6 Number 16 WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE SELECTED STORIES FOR USE IN SCHOOLS WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK: 43-47 E....- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 10 of A wonder-book for girls and boys The Standard Text-Books on Geography Maury’s New Elementary Geography. Maury’s Revised Manual of Geog-raphy. Maury’s New Physical Geography. These books were not compiled from encyclopedias, but are ♦he live work of America...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 11 of A wonder-book for girls and boys STANDARD LITERATURE SERIES A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS BY NATHANIEL ^AWTHORNE SELECTED STORIES FOR USE IN SCHOOLS WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 12 of A wonder-book for girls and boys Copyright, 1896, by UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY 1811 Press of J, J, Little Co, Astor Place, New York- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 13 of A wonder-book for girls and boys INTRODUCTION. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born at Salem, Mass., July 4, 1804. He was but four years old when his father died, leaving his mother in strait- ened circumstances, with the boy and...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 14 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 4 INTRODUCTION. graphical Stories (1842), and The Wonder Book” (1851), were written for the young. In July, 1842, Hawthorne married Miss Peabody, of Salem, who was to him “a blessing and illumination...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 15 of A wonder-book for girls and boys PREFACE. The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being ren- dered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 16 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 6 PREFACE. to clothe with its own garniture of manners and sentiment, and to imbue with its own morality. In the present version they may have lost much of their classical aspect...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 17 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOtJCH. 1 Once upon a time, there lived a very rich man, and a king besides, whose name was Midas and he had a little daughter, whom nobody but myself...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 18 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 8 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. be to bequeath her the immensest pile of yellow, glis- tening coin, that had ever been heaped together since the world was made. Thus, he gave all his...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 19 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 9 Midas, now, was the chink of one coin against another. At length (as people always grow more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 20 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 10 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. thou But it was laughable to see how the image of his face kept grinning at him, out of the polished surface of the cup. It seemed to...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 21 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 11 was a young man, with a cheerful and ruddy face. Whether it was that the imagination of King Midas threw a yellow tinge over everything, or whatever the...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 22 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 12 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. came to do Midas a favor. And what could that favor be, unless to multiply his heaps of treasure II. The stranger gazed about the room and when...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 23 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 13 wishes. Now, therefore, was the fortunate moment, when he had but to speak, and obtain whatever pos- sible, or seemingly impossible thing, it might come into his head...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 24 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 14 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. SO brilliant a conception.* But are you quite sure that this will satisfy you How could it fail said Midas. And will you never regret the possession of...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 25 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 15 finger on a chair by the bedside, and on various other things, but was grievously disappointed to perceive that they remained of exactly the same substance as before....- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 26 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 16 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. happened to be in his way. He seized one of the bedposts, and it became immediately a fluted golden pillar. He pulled aside a window-curtain, in order to...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 27 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 17 pocket, and put them on kis nose, in order that he might see more distinctly what he was about. In those days, spectacles for common people had not...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 28 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 18 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. passed over it, in his descent. He lifted the door- latch (it was brass only a moment ago, but golden when his fingers quitted it), and emerged into...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 29 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 19 potatoes, fresh boiled eggs, and coffee, for King Midas himself, and a bowl of bread and milk for his daughter Marygold. At all events, this is a breakfast...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 30 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 20 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. Meanwhile, Marygold slowly and disconsolately opened the door, and showed herself with her apron at her eyes, still sobbing as if her heart would break. How now, my...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 31 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 21 he himself had wrought the change which so greatly afflicted her. ^‘Sit down and eat your bread and milk! You will find it easy enough to exchange a...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 32 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE (^lOLHEN TOUCH. deposit for articles so valuable as golden bowls and coffee-pots. Amid these thoughts, he lifted a spoonful of coffee to his lips, and, sipping it, was astonished to per-...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 33 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 23 only King Midas, just at that moment, would much rather have had a real trout in his dish than this elaborate and valuable imitation of one. I don’t...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 34 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 24 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. avoid what he now felt to be a considerable incon- venience, King Midas next snatched a hot potato, and attempted to cram it into his mouth, and swal-...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 35 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 25 before him How many days, think you, would he survive a continuance of this rich fare These reflections so troubled wise King Midas, that he began to doubt...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 36 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 26 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. thousand times more than he had gained by the Golden Touch. My precious, precious Marygold cried he. But Marygold made no answer. Alas, what had he done How...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 37 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 27 in gold. And now the phrase had become literally true. And now, at last, when it was too late, he felt how infinitely a warm and tender heart,...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 38 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 28 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. lie recognized tlie same figure which had appeared to him, the day before, in the treasure-room, and had bestowed on him this disastrous faculty of the Golden Touch....- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 39 of A wonder-book for girls and boys THE GOLDEN TOUCH. 29 ‘‘A piece of bread,” answered Midas, “is worth all the gold on earth “The Golden Touch,” asked the stranger, “or your own little Marygold, warm, soft, and loving...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Image 40 of A wonder-book for girls and boys 30 THE GOLDEN TOUCH. it over any object that you may desire to change back again from gold into its former substance. If you do this in earnestness and sincerity, it may...- Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Date: 1896