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Through the generous donation of Jane Roller Sights, Peabody Library has a collection of historic children's literature that had belonged to her father, Bert Roller. Dr. Roller was a Professor of English Literature at Peabody College from 1922-1934 and Editor of the Peabody Reflector. Once processed, the books will be on exhibit at the library in late spring 2004. Additional bibliographic information about the books can be found by searching the titles in the ACORN catalog. The following is a list of books in the collection:
Abbott, Jacob. Agnes: A Franconia Story. New York Harper & Brothers.
Abbott, Jacob. Beechnut: A Franconia Story. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1850.
Abbott, Jacob. Malleville: A Franconia Story. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1850.
Abbott, Jacob. Mary Erskine: A Franconia Story. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1850.
Abbott, Jacob. Wallace: A Franconia Story. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1850.
Abott, Rosa. Jack of All Trades.
Ainslie, Kathleen. Catherine Susan and Me's Coming Out. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Company.
Ainslie, Kathleen. Catherine Susan's Little Holiday. London: Castell
Brothers.
Ainslie, Kathleen. Me and Catherine Susan. London: Castell Brothers.
Ainslie, Kathleen. Oh! Poor Amelia Jane. London: Castell Brothers.
Ainslie, Kathleen. Sammy Goes a' Hunting. London: Castell Brothers.
Ainslie, Kathleen. What I Did. London: Castell Brothers.
Airne, C. W. Story of Mediaeval Britain. Manchester: Sankey, Hudson &
Co.
Alcott, Louisa May. Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, v. 2 Shawl Straps, 1872.
Alcott, Louisa May. Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, v. 5 An Old Fashioned..., 1882.
Alcott, Louisa May. Comic Tragedies.
Alcott, Louisa May. Flower Fables, 1855.
Alcott, Louisa May. Jack and Jill: A Village Story, 1880.
Alcott, Louisa May. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out, 1886.
Alcott, Louisa May. Life, Letters, and Journals.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men, 1875.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women, part second, 1875.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women, part first, 1875.
Alcott, Louisa May. Louisa M. Alcott Story Book, 1910.
Alcott, Louisa May. Lulu's Library, volume 3, 1889.
Alcott, Louisa May. An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1874.
Alcott, Louisa May. Rose in Bloom, 1876.
Alcott, Louisa May. Scrapbook.
Alcott, Louisa May. Spinning Wheel Stories, 1884.
Alcott, Louisa May. Under the Lilacs, 1925.
Alcott, Louisa May. Works.
Alden, Joseph. Burial of the First Born. Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company,
1866.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. The Story of a Bad Boy. 34th ed. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, 1891.
Anderson, Hans Christian. Wonderful Stories for Children. New York: Wiley
& Putnam, 1847.
Anna Ross: Story for Children. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union,
1826.
Auslander, Joseph. Winged Horse Anthology. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
Doran & Company, Inc., 1929.
Austin, Jane G. Standish of Standish. Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
1891.
Baby Days: A New Selection of Songs, Stories, and Pictures for Very
Little Folks. New York: The Century Co., 1903.
Barbauld, A. L. Hymns in Prose for the Use of Children. Boston: Timothy
Sawn, 1819.
Barbauld's Lessons.
Barrie, J.M. Tommy and Grizel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
Bates, Clara Doty. Old Time Jingles. Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1881.
Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt: From Earliest Times. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Brown, Abbie Farwell. Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1922.
Brown, Sharon. Poetry of our Times. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, and Company,
1928.
Burroughs, John. Riverby. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896.
Cabot, James Eliot. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin and Company, 1887. 2 vol.
Caldecott, R. The House that Jack Built. George Routledge & Sons.
Caldecott, Randolph. R. Caldecott's Picture Book, No. 1. London: F. Warne
& Co.
Caldecott, Randolph. R. Caldecott's Picture Book, No. 2. London: F. Warne
& Co.
Carman, Bliss. Oxford Book of American Verse. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1927.
Chapman, George. The Iliads of Homer. London: J. M. Dent. 2 vol.
Child, L. Maria. Flowers for Children. New York: C. S. Francis & Co.,
1844.
Child's Scrapbook. Boston: Otis, Broaders & [?], 1842.
Christensen, A. M. H. Afro-American Folk Lore, Told Round Cabin. Boston:
J. G. Cupples, 1892.
Clarke, George Herbert (ed.). Treasury of War Poetry: British. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.
Clarke, George Herbert (ed.). Treasury of War Poetry: British. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919.
The College Book of Verse, 1850-1925. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1927.
Coolidge, Susan. Nine Little Goslings. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875.
Cooper, Alice Celicia (ed.). Poems of Today. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1924.
2 copies.
Cox, Florence Tinsley. The Epic of Ebenezer: A Christmas Story. New York:
Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912.
Craddock, Charles Egbert. The Story of Keedon Bluffs. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, 1888.
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock.. Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak. New
York: Hurst & Company.
Crane, Walter. The Baby's Opera. London: George Routledge and Sons.
Crothers, Samuel McChord. Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. St. Paul, MN:
Banning Press, 1891 (?).
Crothers, Samuel McChord. The Gentle Reader. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
and Company, 1903.
Cunliffe, J. W. (ed.). Century Readings for a Course in English, vol. 2.
New York: The Century Co., 1919.
Davis, Richard Harding. Van Bibber and Others. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1892.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. The Little Prince. San Diego: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1943.
Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates. New York: Charles
Scibners and Sons, 1883.
Dot's Travels.
Dumas, Alexander. Three Musketeers. New York: Great Authors Library.
Early American Children's Books. New York: New York Public Library, 1927.
Earle, Alice Morse (ed.). A Diary of Anna Green Winslow. Boston, Houghton,
Mifflin, and Company, 1894.
Ebers, Georg. The Bride of the Nile: A Romance. New York: William S.
Gottsberger, 1887. 2 vol.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (ed.). Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1909. v. 1 (1820-1824); v. 2 (1824-1832); v. 3 (1820-1872); v.
4 (1836-1838); v. 5 (1838-1841); v. 6 (1841-1844); v. 7 (1845-1848); v. 8 (1849-1855);
v. 9 (1856-1863); v. 10 (1864-1876).
Everts, W. W. Childhood: Its Promise and Training. New York: Sheldon,
Blakemore & Co., 1857.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Touch Him if You Dare. London: Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Grandmother's Spring. London: Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. The Story of a Short Life. Boston: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co., 1893.
Farjeon, B. L. Blade o' Grass. New York: Harper & Brother, 1872.
Fernie, B. J. Readings and Recitations for Winter. Philadelphia: Historical
Publishing Co., 1895.
Fiske, John. The War of Independence. Boston Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
1890.
Fitz, Asa. The New Primary School Song Book. Boston: Wm. J. Reynolds
& Co., 1848.
Follen, Eliza Lee. Birthday: A Sequel to The Well-Spent Hour. Boston:
James Munroe and Company, 1848.
Follen, Eliza Lee. Little Songs. Boston: Whittemore, Niles and Hall,
1856.
Follen, Eliza Lee. Little Songs. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881.
Footsteps to Natural History. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
Forest, Neil. Mice at Play: A Story for the Whole Family. Boston: Roberts
Brothers, 1876.
Franklin, Benjamin. Poor Richard's Almanack. New York: The Century Co.,
1898.
French Toys. 1915.
Fuller, Anna. Later Pratt Portraits. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911.
Fuller, Anna. Peak and Prairie. New York; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1894.
Fuller, Anne. Pratt Portraits Sketched in a New. New York; London G.
P. Putnam's Sons, 1894.
Gage, Lucy. Out and Playing: A First Reader, Child Activity Series. New
York: Mentzer Bush & Co., 1927.
Gage, Lucy. Up and Doing: A Primer Child Activity Series. New York: Mentzer
Bush & Co., 1927.
Gaige, Grace. Recitations Old and New for Boys and Girls. New York: D.
Appleton and Company, 1924.
Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad, Byron's. London: J. F. Dove, 1827.
Gray, Lucy. A Collection of Tales for Children. Fitchburg: S & C Shepley,
1848.
Greenaway, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Alphabet. London: Frederick Warne &
Co., Ltd.
Greenwood, Grace. History of My Pets. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,
1850.
Greever, Garland. The Century Collgiate Handbook. New York; London: The
Century Co., 1924.
Guernsey, Lucy Ellen. Two Ends of a Mission Box. Westfield, NY: Office
of the Church Kalendar [sic], 1885.
Hale, Edward Everett. The Man Without a Country. Little, Brown, and
Company, 1917.
Hall, Howard Judson. Types of Poetry, Exclusive of Drama. Boston: Ginn
and Company, 1927.
Hamilton, C.J.. The Story of Steady and Sure. New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell Company, 1928.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Dady Jake the Runaway and Stories Told After.
New York: The Century Co., 1889.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus, or, Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit. London:
George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891.
Harrison, John. After Dinner Stories. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company,
1923.
Harte, Bret. How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1922.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Mosses from an Old Manse. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
and Company, 1894.
Herford, Oliver. Overheard in a Garden et coetera. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1900.
Hegan, Alice Caldwell. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. New York: The
Century Co., 1901.
The Lyric South. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables. Thomas Nelson and Sons.
Improved New England Primer. Concord, N H: Roby, Kimball & Merrell, 1841.
In the Court of King Arthur. Whitman Publishing Co., 1918.
Jane and Willy's Visits to the Farm. Philadelphia: American Sunday School
Union.
Jeffries, Richard. Saint Guido; Queen Mary's Child-Garden. Maine: Thomas
B. Mosher, 1901.
Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, 1896.
John the Giant Killer, esq. Food for the Mind, or, a New Riddlebook. London,
1778.
J. K. Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice. London: Strathan & Company,
1882.
Keysor, Jennie (ed.). Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Boston Educational
Publishing, 1901.
King and Queen of Hearts. 1809.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. New York: The Century Co., 1894.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. New York: The Century Co.,
1895.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Seven Seas. New York: D. Appleton and Company,
1989.
A Lady Title Bouquet: Containing the Poetry. Boston: B. B. Mussey & Co.,
1851.
Larcom, Lucy. New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, 1890.
Large Letters for Little Ones. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1865.
Le Gallienne, Richard (ed.). The Le Gallienne Book of American Verse. New
York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Leslie, Madeline. Bible Pearls: A Book for Girls. Edinburgh: William
Oliphant and Company.
Letters of a British Spy, 7th ed. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas.
Life. December 2, 1899, no. 889.
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
The Little Messenger Birds; or the Chimes of the Silver Bells.
Longfellow, Henry W. Poems. Chicago: Homewood Publishing Company, 1902.
Longfellow, Henry W. Poems: Volume I. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company.
Longfellow, Henry W. Poems: Volume II. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company.
Macaulay, Lord. Poetical Works of Lord Macaulay, New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.
Mackaye, Steele. Hazel Kirke: A Drama in Four Acts. New York: Samuel
French, 1899.
Macleod, Mary. King Arthur and his Noble Knights. New York: A.L. Burt
Company.
Macreading, C.S. Memoir of Lucy Stone, A Sabbath-School. New York: Lane
& Scott, 1849.
Malone, Ted (ed.). The Pocket Book of Popular Verse. New York: Pocket
Books, Inc., 1945.
Marryat, Captain. Masterman Ready, or, The Wreck of the. New York: D.
Appleton & Company, 1867.
Martineau, Harriet. Five Years of Youth, or, Sense and. Boston: Leonrad
C. Bowles, and B. H. Greene, 1832.
Martineau, Harriet. The Playfellow. London: George Routledge and Sons,
1883.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. The Harper Weaver and Other Poems. New York;
London: Harper & Brothers, 1927.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Second April. New York; London: Harper & Brothers,
1921.
The Miscellaneous Poems of the Boston Bard. Philadelphia, 1818.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Our Village. London: Whittaker & Co., 1835.
Monroe, Harriet (ed.). New Poetry: An Anthology. New York: The Macmillan
Company, 1924.
Monsell, J. R. The Pink Knight. 1902?
Montague, Margaret Prescott. Closed Doors: Studies of Deaf and Blind Children.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
More, Hannah. Shepard of Salisbury Plain.
Mother Ruth's Melodies.
Mrs. Barbauld's Hymns. [New York]: McLoughlin Bros.
Moleworth, Mrs.. Adventures of Herr Baby. London: Macmillan and Co.,
1881.
The Old Dame and her Sixpence.
Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,
1892.
Peabody Reflector, 1923 V. 5 (no. 2-6, 9-12)
Peabody Reflector, 1924 V. 6 (no. 1,3-7, 9-12); includes aerial photo
of Peabody College
Peabody Reflector, 1925 V. 7 (no. 1-6), v. 8 (no. 1, 3-6)
Peabody Reflector, 1926 V. 9 (no. 1-6), v. 10 (no. 1-5)
Phillips, Leroy. The New England Primer. Anthenauem Press.
Pierpont, John. Young Reader: To Go with the Spelling. Date. 15th ed.
Boston: Charles Bowen, 1838.
The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children. Garden City: Doubleday,
Page & Company, 1927.
Precept upon Precept Nashville, TN: M. E. Church.
Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Two Bad Mice. London: F. Warne & Co.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Glouchester. New York: Frederick Warne
& Co., Inc., 1903.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. New York: Frederick Warne
& Co., 1904.
Potter, Beatrix. Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. New York: Frederick Warne
& Co., 1905.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. New York: Frederick Warne
and Co., 1908?
Praeger, S. Rosamond. Olde Irishe Rimes of Brian O'Linn. London: Macmillan
and Co., 1901.
Prescott, Frederick C. (ed.). An Introduction to American Poetry. New
York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1932.
Queery Leary Nonsense: A Lear Nonsense Book. Mills & Boon, Ltd.,
1911.
Richards, Laura E. Captain January. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1891.
Riley, James Whitcomb. The Lockerie Book. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill
Company, 1911.
Riley, James Whitcomb. Riley Child-Rymes. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill
Company, 1920.
Rittenhouse, Jessie B. Third Book of Modern Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1927.
Roller, Bert. Children in Poetry. Nashville, TN: George Peabody College
for Teachers, 1930.
Sage, Elizabeth and Cooley, Anna M. Occupations for Little Fingers: A Manual
for Grade Teachers, Mothers and Settlement Workers. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1905.
Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.
Scott, Sir Walter. Rob Roy. New York: University Publishing Company,
1896.
Scott's Monthly Magazine, vol. 3 no. 2, 1867 Atlanta, GA: Franlin Printing
House.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Rivals: A Comedy. London: J. M. Dent and
Sons, Ltd., 1902.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. School for Scandal: A Comedy. London: J.
M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1911.
Silver Pennies: A Collection of Modern Poems for Boys and Girls. By Blanche
Jennings Thompson, 1927.
Smith, Albert. The Natural History of the Gent. New York: D. Appleton
& Company, 1850.
Smith, F. Hopkinson. Colonel Carter's Christmas. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1903.
Sowerby, J. G. At Home. London: Marcus Ward & Co.
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton. The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
Story of an Apple. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.
Stein, R. Conrad. Benjamin Franklin: Investor, Statesman, and Patriot. Chicago:
Rand McNally & Company, 1972.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Taylor, Jane and Ann. Little Ann and Other Poems. London: Frederick Warne
and Co.
Teter, George E. (ed.). One Hundred Narrative Poems. Chicago: Scott,
Foresman and Company, 1918.
Thinker, Theodore. The Balloon and Other Stories. New York: Clark, Austin
& Co., 1850.
Thomas, Katherin Elwes. The Real Personages of Mother Goose. Boston;
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1930.
Thomson, James. Spring. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892.
Towlocks and his Wooden Horse.
Town, Salem. Town's First Reader to be Use in Connection. Brattleborough,
VT: Joseph Steen, 1845.
Train, Mark. The Jumping Frog. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971.
Trimmer, Mary. A Natural History of the Most Remarkable. 1826.
Tuthill, L. C. Strike for Freedom, or, Law and Order. Boston: W.M. Crosby
and H. P. Nichols, 1851.
Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company,
1880.
Van Doren, Mark. An Anthology of World Poetry. New York: The Literary
Guild of America, 1928.
Watt's Songs against Evil. New York: McLoughlin Bros.
What Man has Built. 1967.
Webb, George James. The Common School Songster. 6th ed. Boston: Hickling,
Swan, and Brown, 1856.
Weber, William Lander (ed.). Selections from the Southern Poets. New
York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
Weeden, Howard. Bandanna Balads, Including Shadows on. Garden City:
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.
Weeden, Howard. Old Voices. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
Werner, M.R.. Barnum. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. The Story of Patsy. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and
Company, 1891.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Summer in a Canon: A California Story. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891.
Woodberry, George Edward. Collected Poems of Ruperte Brook. New York:
Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915.
Young Lady's Mentor. Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1858.
Zumer, Elizabeth. The Daisy, or, Cautionary Stories in Verse. London, 1807.
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