we could gather together some American boys who were alive at that same time, here are some we could have found:

Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote for children, Tanglewood Tales and the Wonder Book.

HAWTHORNE.

Then there was Longfellow, who was born in Portland, Maine. How many of his poems do you know besides Hiawatha?

LONGFELLOW.

And then we must not forget Whittier, who wrote many lovely poems. One was about a little girl who spelled the word that her companion missed in school and so she went above him in the class.

WHITTIER.

And still there was another little boy only a year older than Robert Schumann. He was born in a cabin.

LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE.

This boy's name, as you can guess, was Abraham Lincoln.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

So when you think of Robert Schumann, let us also think of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lincoln.

They were all doing their best, even as boys, to be useful.

Well, after all, Robert Schumann did not become a lawyer. He studied music very hard. His teacher was Frederick Wieck. His teacher's daughter, Clara Wieck, played the piano very beautifully.

CLARA WIECK.

Papa Wieck, as he was called, was not very kind to Robert Schumann when the young man confessed that he and Clara loved one another and wished to marry.

FRIEDRICH WIECK.

But after a while it all turned out happily and they were married. So Clara Wieck became Clara Schumann.

Here is a picture of them seated together.

ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN.

In the sixteen years that Robert Schumann lived after he and Clara Wieck were married he composed lots of music for the piano, besides songs, symphonies, and other kinds of compositions.

He was a teacher in the Leipzig Conservatory. Among his friends were Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and many others.

Schumann is best known as a composer of music, although he was also a teacher, a conductor, and a writer upon musical subjects. For many years he was the head of a musical newspaper, which is