Research Catalog

Title

Peace crusaders : adventures in goodwill : a book of recitations for children : stories--poems--essays / compiled by Anna Bassett Griscom for the American Friends Service Committee.

Author

Griscom, Anna Bassett, 1889-1974.

Publication

Philadelphia ; London : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1928.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

American Friends Service Committee

Description

191 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

This book of stories, poems and essays has been compiled to make accessible to parents, teachers and others interested in the training of children along lines of international understanding, material suitable for this purpose. Taken from the preface.

Subject

• Readers and speakers > 1870-
• Peace
• Patriotism

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• Poetry
• Essay
• short stories.
• poetry.
• essays.
• Essays
• Fiction
• Juvenile works
• Short stories
• Nouvelles.
• Romans.
• Poésie.
• Essais.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The invincible leader -- A tale of three kingdoms that were -- A spark neglected burns the house -- Coals of fire -- How Jack's birthday present went over seas -- The quails -- A ride toward war paint -- The peace pipe -- Fierce feathers -- The latchstring -- How a doll saved a war -- Die Mutter -- The meeting -- The house that love built -- Bridging the Rhine -- The children are brothers -- Christ of the Andes -- William Penn's experiment -- The Rush-Bagot agreement -- Cherries of Hamburg -- The little hero of Haarlem -- A song of better understandinig -- The pied piper -- Tubal Cain -- How big was Alexander, pa? -- The peace-pipe -- The cherry festival at Naumburg -- From the Biglow Papers -- Barclay of Ury -- What is right for you is right for me -- When some fellow's daddy kills some fellow's dad -- The world wants mending -- America first! -- My country -- What makes a nation? -- Our Fatherland -- The better way -- Hear, o ye nations -- Friends across the seas -- Games are games -- The true brotherhood -- A song of victory -- Song of the twentieth century -- A song of peace -- Christmas Bells -- Locksley Hall -- A new earth -- A voice from the West -- Disarmament -- The arsenal at Springfield -- The people's thanksgiving -- Recessional -- 1914 -- and after -- The Pyres -- Is war ever right? -- Crusaders all -- Unknown -- The abolition of war -- The new kind of hero -- The American flag -- The ways of peace -- How the world is fed -- Chief Joseph's speech -- American experiments in disarmament -- American experiments in arbitration -- American experiments in cooperation -- World-wide cooperation -- The boxer indemnity -- Each nation's contribution to the world -- The Paris Peace Pact -- The world a market place.

LCCN

^^^28027863^

OCLC

598443

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library