Choice readings from standard and popular authors

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I. Narrative, Descriptive, Didactic

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Adam's Account of His Creation Milton. 2

Advice to Young Lawyers Story. 4

Alpine Minstrelsy Schiller. 39

Bee-Hunt in the Ear West Irving. 12

Blind Eiddler, The Wordsworth. 26

Blind Highland Boy, The : Wordsworth. 69

Christmas Eve in the Olden Time Scott. 29

Child's Dream of a Star, A Dickens. 5

Conscience, A Good Anon. 15

Crusoe's Fight with Wolves . . . . -^ Defoe. 83

Destruction of Pompeii , Lytton. 9

Edwin and Angelina Goldsmith. 34

Elegy in a Country Churchyard Gray. 16

jEve, The Creation of Milton. 3

\J Eirst Settler's Story, The Carleton. 20

Friday's Erolic with a Bear Defoe. 79

Happiness of Animals Coivper. 93

History Fronde. 27

■ /Jennie M'Neal, The Bide of Carleton. 44

Knowledge and Wisdom Cowper. 1

Lady Clara Vere de Vere Tennyson. 88

Legend of Bregenz, A Procter. 40

Maud Muller Whittier. 47

Mona's Waters Anon. 51

Morning Webster. 77

No Sects in Heaven CI eav eland. 31

Ode to the Passions Collins. 55

Order for a Picture, An Gary. 58

Our Travelled Parson Carleton. 90

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Painter of Seville, The Wilson. 61

Potency of English Words Mcintosh. 66

Scott, Sir Walter, and His Dogs Irving. 75

II. Love, Beauty, Tranquillity

Astrological Tower, The Schiller. 113

Bridge, The Longfellow. 107

Children, The Dickens. 109

Genevieve Coleridge. 95

Graham, Mr., and Lady Clementina MacDonald. 99

Immortality of Love Southey. Ill

Lost Chord, A Procter. 114

Memory Garfield. 115

Memory Wordsworth. 123

Over the River Priest. 117

Pictures of Memory Cary. 119

Sandalphon Longfellow. 120

Seen, Loved, Wedded Wordsworth. 98

Tears, Idle Tears Tennyson. 117

Tranquillity, Ode to Coleridge. 122

III. Grave, Solemn, Serious, Pathetic

Angels of Buena Vista, The Whittier. 125

Blacksmith's Story, The Olive. 136

Christmas Day Richards. 134

Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night Thorpe. 143

Death of Mr. Bertram, The Scott. 146

Forty Years Ago Anon. 159

Good Son, The Dana. 171

Hermit, The Beattie. 131

How He Saved St. Michael's Anon. 139

Isle of Long Ago, The Taylor. 156

Ladder of St. Augustine, The Longfellow. 132

Leonard and Margaret Southey. 165

Lucy Bertram and Domine Sampson Scott. 150

Lucy Gray Wordsworth. 183

Michael and His Son Wordsworth. 162

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Nearer Home Canj. 161

Ocean Burial, The Saunders. 169

Our Folks Lynn. 185

Our Willie Anon. 158

Pauper's Death-Bed, The Southey. 157

Poor Little Joe Arkwright. 187

Rivermouth Bocks Whiitier. 177

Song of the Mystic Ryan. 181

Stability of Virtue, The Marshall. 168

Thanatopsis Bryant. 128

Widow and Her Son, The Irving. 173

TTinif reda Anon. 135

IV. Reverence, Devotion, Adoration

Break, Break, Break Tennyson. 198

Cato's Soliloquy Addison. 190

Closing Year, The Prentice. 193

Devotional Incitements Wordsworth. 195

God Dershavin. 199

God's First Temples Bryant. 202

Hymn, A Coleridge. 192

Inspiration of the Bible Winthrop. 197

Primrose of the Rock, The Wordsworth. 206

Supreme Being, To the Michael Angelo. 191

V. Grand, Bold, Sublime

Apollo, Ode to Keats. 220

Apostrophe to the Ocean Byron. 208

God in Nature Wordsworth. 224

Hymn to Mont Blanc Coleridge. 212

Hymn to the Night Longfellow. 210

Launching of the Ship , Longfellow. 218

Marco Bozzaris Halleck. 214

St. Peter's Church at Rome Byron. 222

Vision of Mist-Splendours, A Wordsworth. 210

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VI. Patriotic, Senatorial, Oratorical

The Seven Great Orators of the World. page.

Fortune of iEsehines Demosthenes. 226

Panegyric on Julius Caesar Cicero. 230

Divine Providence in Nature Chrysostom. 233

Eulogium on St. Paul Bossuet. 236

Against the Stamp-Act Chatham. 238

Impeachment of Hastings Finished Burke. 242

Supposed Speech of John Adams Webster. 245

Ambition of a Statesman Clay. 298

Appeal in Behalf of Ireland Prentiss. 296

Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson. 307

Composed at Cora Linn Wordsworth. 249

Eulogy on Lafayette Everett. 283

Flag, The American Drake. 270

Horatius at the Bridge Macaulay. 256

Independence Bell Anon. 267

Liberty and Union Webster. 266

Lochiel's Warning Campbell. 288

Massachusetts and South Carolina Webster. 304

" Matches and Overmatches " Webster. 280

Our Duties to the Republic Story. 264

Patriotism Scott. 251

Paul Revere's Ride Longfellow. 252

Pitt's Reply to Walpole 262

Reply to Mr. Corry Grattan. 274

Reputation, Value of Charles Phillips. 300

Rienzi's Address to the Romans Mitford. 286

Rising of 1776, The Read. 272

Speech in the Virginia Convention Henry. 290

Speech of Vindication Emmett. 293

Toussaint L'Overture Wendell Phillips. 302

Walpole's Attack on Pitt 260

Wisdom Dearly Purchased Burke. 277

VII. Invective, Vehement, Indignant

Arraignment of Ministers -. Burke. 318

Catiline's Defiance Croly. 308

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Fraudulent Party Outcries Webster. 324

Horrors of Savage Warfare Chatham. 315

IX. Humorous, Comic

Aunt Tabitha Holmes. 347

Awfully Lovely Philosophy Anon. 348

Bald-Headed Man, The , Anon. 350

Betsey and I Are Out Carleton. 409

Brakeman at Church, The Burdette. 353

Champion Snorer, The Anon. 357

Courtship under Difficulties Anon. 359

Darius Green and His Flying-Machine Trowbridge. 364

Death of a Mad Dog Goldsmith. 408

How Betsy and I Made Up Carleton. 411

How " Ruby " Played Brownin. 371

How the Old Horse Won the Bet Holmes. 389

Our Guides Twain. 375

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Pickwick's Proposal, Mr Dickens. 379

Pyramus and Thisbe Saxe. 386

Reflections in the Pillory Lamb. 404

Sam Weller's Valentine Dickens. 382

Tom's Little Star Foster. 395

Too Late for the Train Anon. 400

X. Dialectic

Cockney.

Lord Dundreary Proposing Skill. 414

The Swell Kyle. 417

French.

Frenchman and Flea-Powder Anon. 420

A Frenchman on Macbeth Anon. 421

Monsieur Tonson Anon. 422

German.

Leedle Yawcob Strauss Adams. 427

" Sockery " Setting a Hen Anon. 429

Irish.

Connor Anon. 430

Miss Malony on the Chinese Dodge. 437

Jimmy Butler and the Owl Anon. 440

Italian.

A Senator Entangled De Mille. 444

Negro.

Christmas-Night in the Quarters Russell. 449

The First Banjo Russell. 453

Uncle Dan'l's Apparition Clemens and Warner. 455

Scotch.

Charlie Machree Hoppin. 459

Cuddle Doon Anderson. 400

John Anderson, My Jo Burns. 461

Jeanie Morrison Motherwell. 462

Spanish.

Magdalena ; or, the Spanish Duel Anon. 465

CONTENTS. XV

XI. Imitative Metrical

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Bells, The Poe. 471

Bugle Song Tennyson. 473

Charcoal Man, The Trowbridge. 474

Creeds of the Bells Bungay. 476

Drifting Read. 487

Evening at the Farm Trowbridge. 478

Last Hymn, The Farmingham. 480

Little Telltale, The Anon. 481

Robert of Lincoln Bryant. 483

"Rock of Ages " Rice. 485

XII. For Young Folks

Annie and Willie's Prayer Snow. 490

Better in the Morning Coan. 521

Butterfly's Ball, The ; Roscoe. 515

Dead Doll, The * Vandergrift. 493

Evening with Helen's Babies Habberton. 495

In School Days Whittier. 509

Katie Lee and Willie Grey Hunt. 497

Keeping His Word Anon. 499

Leap for Life, A Cotton. 501

Little Rocket's Christmas Brown. 502

Love and Prayer Coleridge. 528

Margaret Gray Lamb. 518

No Flowers on Papa's Grave C. E. L. Holmes. 514

Papa's Letter Anon. 507

Rats - Loudon. 527

Smack in School, The Palmer. 517

Somebody's Mother Anon. 511

Tame Hares Cowper. 523

To Whom shall We give Thanks % Anon. 512

XIII. Dramatic, Not In The Drama

Beautiful Snow, The Pi< Watson. 529

Claudius and Cynthia • . . Thompson. 577

Count Candaspina's Standard .... Boker. 533

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Famine, The Longfellow. 536

Gambler's Wife, The Coutes. 543

yGone with a Handsomer Man Carleton. 569

John Maynard, The Hero-Pilot Gouyh. 545

Johnny Bartholomew English. 584

Lady Clare Tennyson. 546

Maelaine's Child Mackay. 549

Mother and Poet Mrs. Browning. 552

Parrhasius the Captive Willis. 555

Polish Boy, The Stephens. 557

Scotland's Maiden Martyr Anon. 582

Searching for the Slain Anon. 575

Shelly, Kate Hall. 541

Vagabonds, The Trowbridge. 572

Virginia : a Lay of Ancient Rome Macaulay. 561

Wreck of the Hesperus, The Longfellow. 566

Wounded .Miller. 564

XIV. Scenes From Popular Dramas

The Hunchback, Act I. Scene II Knowles. 586

ActL Scene III '. " 590

Act IV. Scene II " 592

Act V. Scene I " 599

Ingomar, Act I. Scene I Halm. 603

Act IV. Scene I " 615

Leah, the Forsaken, Act IV. Scene II Daly. 619

Mary Stuart, Act III. Scene IV Schiller. 623

Richelieu, Act IV. Scene I Lytton. 630

The School for Scandal, Act II. Scene I Sheridan. 634

Act III. Scene I " 637

Virginius, Act I. Scene II Knowles. 641

Act II. Scene II " 648

Act IV. Scene II " 650

Ion ; a Tragedy, Act I. Scene I Talfourd. 657