• Publication: Famous Stories Every Child Should KnowPublication Record # 626104
• Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Date: 1907-08-00
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
• Pages: x+300
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Fiction contents listed below (7 of 11 in the anthology) are those in the database as contents of other publications (September 2019). Internet Archive provides full view of a copy including original cover and endpapers: -- frontispiece and title page: "Drawn by ..." and "Decorated by Blanche Ostertag" -- text (10 stories and one poem) spans p3-300, unillustrated Ostertag decorations evidently comprise the frontispiece, which illustrates "The King of the Golden River"; the endpapers, apparently by the same hand; and possibly the front cover. Library of Congress record LCCN 07-29005 reports a 1912 ed./printing as 300 pages with frontispiece, no other illustrations.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • (1907) • interior artwork by Blanche Ostertag
• v • Introduction (Famous Stories Every Child Should Know) • essay by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• 3 • A Child's Dream of a Star • (1850) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 8 • The King of the Golden River; or, The Black Brothers • novelette by John Ruskin (variant of The King of the Golden River 1841)
• 37 • The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle • (1850) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 57 • Undine • (1867) • novella by
  Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué^?Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouque
  (trans. of
  Undine: Eine Erzählung^?Undine: Eine Erzaehlung
  1811) [as by Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué]
• 148 • The Great Stone Face • (1850) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 182 • The Man Without a Country • non-genre • (1863) • novelette by Edward Everett Hale
• 288 • Peter Rugg, the Missing Man • (1824) • novelette by William Austin