Produced by Al Haines
This is fairy gold, boy;
And I will prove it so.
—Shakespeare
Every man I will go with thee, be thy guide
in thy most need to go by thy side.
"A Child's Book of Saints" was first published in 1898, when Mr. Cantonhad already found his audience. The book is a near successor indeed tohis "W. V.: Her Book," and to "The Invisible Playmate"; and W. V. againacts as guardian elf and guide to this new region of the child'searthly paradise. The Saints are here treated with a simplicity thatis almost or altogether childlike, and with an unforced imaginationwhich is only to be learnt by becoming as a child. And this is perhapswhy, although comparatively a new book, it has the air of somethingpleasantly old, and written long ago; and thus wins its way into thechildren's library of old favourite authors.
Mr. Canton's published works, up to January 1906, comprise:—"A LostEpic, and other Poems," 1887. "The Invisible Playmate: a Story of theUnseen," 1894, 1897. "W. V., Her Book and Various Verses," 1896. "AChild's Book of Saints," 1898, 1902. "Children's Sayings, Edited, witha Digression on the Small People," 1900. "The True Annals ofFairyland" (The Reign of King Herla), 1900, &c. "In Memory of W. V."(Winifred Vida Canton), 1901. "The Comrades: Poems, Old and New,"1902. "What is the Bible Society?" 1903. "The Story of the BibleSociety," 1904. "A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society,"1904. "Little Hands and God's Book: a Sketch of the Bible Society,"1804-1904, 1905.
IN THE FOREST OF STONE
THE SONG OF THE MINSTER
THE PILGRIM OF A NIGHT
THE ANCIENT GODS PURSUING
THE DREAM OF THE WHITE LARK
THE HERMIT OF THE PILLAR
KENACH'S LITTLE WOMAN
GOLDEN APPLES AND ROSES RED
THE SEVEN YEARS OF SEEKING
THE GUARDIANS OF THE DOOR
ON THE SHORES OF LONGING
THE CHILDREN OF SPINALUNGA
THE SIN OF THE PRINCE BISHOP
THE LITTLE BEDESMAN OF CHRIST
THE BURNING OF ABBOT SPIRIDION
THE COUNTESS ITHA...