Wonder-Box Tales
by Jean Ingelow
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About This Book
Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. The publication of her Poems in 1863 suddenly made her a popular writer. They ran rapidly through numerous editions, were set to music, and sung in every drawing-room, and in the United States obtained even greater public acclaim. In 1867 she published The Story of Doom and other Poems, and then gave up verse for a while and became industrious as a novelist. Off the Skelligs appeared in 1872, Fated to Be Free in 1873, Sarah de Berenger in 1880, and John Jerome in 1886. She also wrote Studies for Stories (1864), Stories told to a Child (1865), Mops...
Chapters (24)
- The EDITHA SERIES
- WONDER-BOX TALES
- With Illustrations by Diantha W. Horne
- "'TO BE SURE I CAN,' REPLIED THE LARK."
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- WONDER-BOX TALES
- THE OUPHE[1] OF THE WOOD
- "SO HE SAT DOWN AS CLOSE TO THE FIRE AS HE COULD, AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS TO THE FLAMES."
- "COMING HOME ON TOP OF IT, DRIVING THE FOUR GRAY HORSES HIMSELF."
- THE FAIRY WHO JUDGED HER NEIGHBORS
- "WHILE SHE WAS FITTING ON HER SHOES, SHE SAW THE LARK'S FRIEND."
- THE PRINCE'S DREAM
- "THEN HE RECLINED BESIDE THE CHAFING-DISH AND INHALED THE HEAVY PERFUME."
- "'I COULD NOT DO SO,' HE REPLIED, 'ONLY THAT AS I GO ON I KEEP LIGHTENING IT.'"
- THE WATER-LILY
- "LIVED ON THE BORDERS OF ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORESTS."
- "THE NEXT MOMENT A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CREATURE STOOD UPON HIS HAND."
- A LOST WAND
- "'OH, DON'T GO,' CRIED HULDA. 'I AM GOING UP-STAIRS TO FETCH MY WAND.'"
- "THE PEDLAR HAD NOW SUNK UP TO HIS WAIST."
- The Editha Series
- NEW EDITION, 1906
- H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK AND BOSTON
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