Includes split fore-edge painting of American Indian scenes. The egding is gilt, painings are visible only when pages are at an angle. The fore-edge paiting (fanning right) contaitins a village scene with warrior on horseback, two standing men (one of them wearing a feather war bonnet) and a woman, with two tipis and a view of two mesa mountains in the background. Second painting fanning left shows a hunt scene, with two hunters on horseback and four buffalo.

Choice collection includes the long narrative poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," plus such famous works as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "Paul Revere's Ride," many more.

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and his Soul The Star-Child