THE CHILDREN'S
LONGFELLOW
TOLD IN PROSE BY
DORIS HAYMAN
ILLUSTRATED
Graham & Matlack
New York.
CONTENTS
LONGFELLOW'S POEMS IN PROSE
he home of the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, during thegreater part of his life was in the picturesque town of Cambridge,Massachusetts, and there many of his best known poems were written.
The forge of the Village Blacksmith really stood there beneath theshelter of a "spreading chestnut tree," in Cambridge, and when, as thetown grew larger, the smithy was removed and the tree cut down, all theschool children in Cambridge subscribed together to buy the wood of thefamous tree and had a chair made from it which they gave to the poet.
Longfellow was deeply interested in all I