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BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.
The popular "Pike county ballads," headed by the famous "Jim Bludso" and "Little breeches," with other poems, form a very popular and attractive volume.
Il.Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.50
Eighty-four hymns by sixty-four different authors.
Il.N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., n. d. $1.50
A rearranged and complete volume, showing as near as possible the order in which these poems appeared.
Bost., 1896 $2
A collection of the very best of this style of literature.
N. Y., Crowell, 1879 $1.25
It is the object of this volume to place within the reach of the masses for whom they were intended, the works of this great poet of the people.
N. Y., Randolph & Co., 1865 $1.50
A collection of the choicest and noblest specimens of American national poetry.
Hymns of the ages. (Third series.)
Bost., Osgood & Co., 1877, $1.50. (Now pub. by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 3 vols., each $1.50.)
Collection of sacred hymns, including old Latin, German, English and translations from all ages.
Bost., Roberts Bros., 1893 $1.50
Her poems have no equal among the writings of any American woman, and four or five are excelled by very few American poets of the male sex.
Bost., Osgood & Co., 1881 $2. (Now pub. by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; same price.)
Great pains have been taken to bring together in a convenient and attractive volume as many as possible of the lesser poems in our language.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881 $2
Being a selection chiefly from the longer English poems.