title: The Water-Babies (Macmillan Classics)
author:  Charles Kingsley 
description: <div></div><B>Charles Kingsley</B> (1819-1875)&#160;was a priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist. <I>The Water-Babies</I> was his most famous novel. <B>Mabel Lucie Attwell</B> (1879-1964)&#160;illustrated&#160;<I>Alice in Wonderland</I>, <I>Peter Pan</I>, and <I>The Water-Babies</I>.
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  The Water-Babies
  
  
    
    
  [Chapter I  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_001.html#filepos1607)[Chapter II  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_001.html#filepos49003)[Chapter III  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_001.html#filepos92840)[Chapter IV  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_002.html#filepos142787)[Chapter V  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_002.html#filepos195566)[Chapter VI  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_002.html#filepos239495)[Chapter VII  
    
  ](The%20Water-Babies_split_002.html#filepos275416)[Chapter VIII
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Water-Babies
  
  
  ### Charles Kingsley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I heard a thousand blended notes,
  
  
  While in a grove I sate reclined;
  
  
  In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
  
  
  Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
  
  
  
  
  
  "To her fair works did Nature link
  
  
  The human soul that through me ran;
  
  
  And much it gr