Commencement Gift Series

Topic: Classics and poetry reprints

Publish Dates: 1908-1909

Volumes: 46

Formats: 1

Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Oliver W. Holmes

2

Bits of Wisdom

McKinley

Deleted in 1909

2a

Gold Bug

Edgar Allen Poe

Added in 1909

3

Bitter Sweet

J. G. Holland

4

Burns’s Poems

Robert Burns

5

Robert Browning’s Selections

Robert Browning

6

Ballads and Poems

Rudyard Kipling

7

Character and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

8

Childe Harold

Lord Byron

9

Courtship of Miles Standish

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10

Cranford

Mrs. Gaskell

11

Drummond’s Addresses

Henry Drummond

12

Dreams

Olive Schreiner

13

Education

Herbert Spencer

14

Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

15

Favorite Poems

Numerous authors

16

Familiar Quotations

J. Bartlett

17

Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

18

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson

19

In Memoriam

Alfred Lord Tennyson

20

Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

21

Love’s Thread of Gold

Rose Porter

22

Little Minister

J. M. Barrie

23

Longfellow’s Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

24

Love Poems

Numerous authors

25

Lowell’s Poems

James Russell Lowell

26

Lucile

Owen Meredith

27

Mornings in Florence

John Ruskin

28

One Hoss Shay

Oliver W. Holmes

29

Pleasures of Life

John Lubbock

30

Princess

Alfred Lord Tennyson

31

Prue and I

G. W. Curtis

32

Rochefoucauld’s Maxims

33

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald

34

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin

35

Snowbound

John Greenleaf Whittier

36

Splendors of Nature

John Chadwick

37

Strenuous Epigrams

Theodore Roosevelt

Deleted in 1909

37a

Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore

Added in 1909

38

Some Fruits of Solitude

William Penn

39

Self Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

41

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

42

Undine

La Motte-Fouque

43

Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

44

Whittier’s Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

Format 1. Cloth. Parti-style. Imported fancy paper sides in various colors in various patterns. Matching box. 6.5 x 4.25. Two covers have been seen with this “parti-style cover”. One has an oval applique whereas the other has a circular applique. The pictures within the paste-ons vary.

Series Notes:
1. These books cost 75 cents.
2. From the Caldwell catalogue "All the volumes of this series have been carefully selected as not only appropriate for Commencement Gifts, but for all occasions..."

Oval Cover appliqué with matching box

Oval Cover appliqué with matching box

Variant circular cover applique