Juvenile Literature - A Friend in the Library: Volume VII - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Juvenile Literature - A Friend in the Library - Eva March Tappan
JUVENILE LITERATURE
ONE day the famous romancer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, decided to write a book for children. He had two children of his own, and as he wrote story after story, he read each to them. They liked the tales so well that, before the manuscript was sent to the printer, they knew most of them by heart. After the book had been published, other children, too, were so pleased with it that they clamored for another, and Hawthorne wrote one for them. He liked the two volumes as much as they, and he said that he never did anything else so well.
These two books were A Wonder-Book
and Tanglewood Tales
(xiii.). They tell the stories that the Greeks who lived at least twenty-seven hundred years ago, and no one knows how much longer, really believed. There is the story of the golden apples that grew in the Garden of the Hesperides; of old Philemon and Baucis, who made two weary travelers as comfortable as their poverty would permit, and never guessed how Jupiter and Mercury—the unknown wanderers—would reward them. Another story is of Cadmus and his sowing dragon’s teeth which came up as armed men. Each one of these myths is interesting; and, moreover, everybody ought to know them because they are so often referred to in literature and conversation. When Longfellow, for instance, is writing about Portland, Maine, where he lived as a boy, the beautiful town that is seated by the sea,
he speaks