WORLD'S GREAT HARVEST-FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
COMPRISING
Selections from the ablest Modern Writers.
OF
Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore
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Some Books with heaps of chaff are stored
And some do Golden Grain afford;
Leave then the chaff and spend thy pains
In gathering up the Golden Grains.
Including the authors:
Henry W. Longfellow.
James Russell Lowell. Alfred Tennyson.
John G. Whittier. William Cullen Bryant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Hans Christian Andersen. Peter Christian Asbjornsen.
William Shakespeare. Sir Isaac Newton. Rev. Laurence Sterne.
Hon. John D. Long. John G. Saxe. Paul H. Hayne.
Charles Dickens. Sir Walter Scott. Thomas Moore.
Thomas Gray. Lord Lytton. J. C. F. Schiller.
George William Curtis. Martin van Buren.
George Washington. James A. Garfield.
Rev. Charles Kingsley. Barry Cornwall.
Phœbe Cary. Sidney Dayre. Lucie Cobb.
Phila H. Case. Lucy Larcom. Rose Hartwick Thorpe.
Mary D. Brine. Elizabeth Akers. Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.
George Mcdonald. Emma Alice Brown. Samuel Rogres.
Bret Harte. George L. Catlin. J. T. Choate.
George D. Prentice. Nathaniel P. Willis.
Edwin P. Whipple. Phillip James Bailey.
D. Bethune Duffield. William L. Smith.
Friederich Grimm.