1900. Thonias Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote fantastic tales for children under the pen name Frank R. Stockton. He also wrote books for adults. Among his amusing books for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. Contents: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Bee-Man of Orn; The Queen's Museum; The Clocks of Rondaine; Christmas Before Last; or, the Fruit of the Fragile Palm; Prince Hassak's March; The Battle of the Third Cousins; The Banished King; The Philopena; Amos Kilbright: His Adscititious Experiences; The Christmas Shadrach; The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby; and The Philosophy of Relative Existences. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.