About This Book
Alfred Henry Miles (1848-1929) was an English author, editor and composer. He compiled and edited a number of well known works for children at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. His works include: The Poets and Poetry of the Century (edited) (10 vols, 1891-97), Natural History in Anecdote (1895), Successful Recitations (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Boys (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Girls (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories For Girls (edited) (1905), The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1906), Drawing Room Entertainments (1909), Ballads of Brave Women (1909), A Book of Brave Girls at Home and Abroad (1909), A Book of Brave Boys All the World Over (1909), The First Favourite Reciter (edited) (1909), Original Poems, Ballads, and Tales in Verse (1910), The Sweep of the Sword (1910), Twixt Life and Death on Sea and Shore (1910), Heroines of the Home and the World of Duty (1910), A Garland of Verse For Young People (1911), The Diner's-Out Vade Mecum (1912), Fifty-Two Stories of the Indian Mutiny (with Arthur John Pattle) (1915), A Book of Brave Boys (1915) and Heroes of History (1916).
