. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . now read so much ashis prose. He wrote a poem, called The Cam-paign, upon the Battle of Blenheim, and thisbrought him under the notice of the government,which gave him a place of profit. He afterwardrose to high position as an officer of the state,but retired from public life in 1718, with a lib-eral pension. In the year 1716 he married theCountess of Warwick, but the marriage was anunhappy one. He died in London, June 17, 1719. Addison was the chief of a group of famouswriters. We have spoken of his friend RichardSteele; and a
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . now read so much ashis prose. He wrote a poem, called The Cam-paign, upon the Battle of Blenheim, and thisbrought him under the notice of the government,which gave him a place of profit. He afterwardrose to high position as an officer of the state,but retired from public life in 1718, with a lib-eral pension. In the year 1716 he married theCountess of Warwick, but the marriage was anunhappy one. He died in London, June 17, 1719. Addison was the chief of a group of famouswriters. We have spoken of his friend RichardSteele; and another friend of Addisons, Jona-than Swift, —Dean Swift, —is well known as theauthor of Gullivers Travels and other famousbooks. He was a great master of English was a crowd of poets, the greatest namebeing that of Alexander Pope, who translatedthe poems of Homer, the great Greek poet, andwrote some of the cleverest verse we have. Andof lesser writers there were so many that thephrase the wits of Queen Annes time has be-come a well-known 3. ,-5X> {$ FAIRY TALES AND FABLES *^*s^> c?3 tr^e^a^g^s^^&s^ WHAT ARE FAIRY TALES? The sort of fairies that children love arethose that have been for ages believed inby the people who came from the north ofEurope and settled in the British people, as you know, came chieflyfrom the western and northern lands, andbrought with them the idea of a tiny raceof beings who lived in the fields, the caves,or underground, and who were fond ofdancing by moonlight, of riding on birdsand butterflies, of collecting treasures ofgold or silver, and of helping the good outof their troubles and playing pranks on thewicked or the cruel. They had some faults, being fond oftricks, and now and then they were believedto carry off babies, leaving queer littlecreatures known as changelings in theirplaces. If they liked, they could be unseen,or could go with the speed of the windthrough the air. They had a king and aquee
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