1.

_Battle of Trafalgar, The_: VIII, 284.

_Battle of Waterloo, The_: VIII, 176.

_Baucis and Philemon_: I, 431.

_Beauty and the Beast_: I, 318.

_Bed in Summer_: I, 173.

_Bed of Nettles, A_: VIII, 209.

BEERS, MRS. ETHEL LYNN.
Selection: _The Picket Guard_: VII, 177.

BELT, THOMAS.
Selections: _Some Clever Monkeys_: VI, 402.
_Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_: VII, 306.

_Beowulf and Grendel_: III, 350.

_Bernardo del Carpio_: IV, 270.

_Beth Gelert_: III, 42.

_Better Than Gold_: IV, 1.

BIOGRAPHY.
_Robert Louis Stevenson_: I, 128.
_Eugene Field_: I, 242.
_AEsop_: II, 1.
_Hans Christian Andersen_: II, 81.
_Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_: IV, 62.
_Alice Cary_: IV, 116.
_Phoebe Cary_: IV, 116.
_Nathaniel Hawthorne_: IV, 180.
_Alfred the Great_: IV, 260.
_John Bunyan_: IV, 417.
_Jonathan Swift_: V, 1.
_Sir Walter Scott_: VI, 26.
_Matthew Arnold_: VI, 204.
_John Howard Payne_: VI, 221.
_Charles Dickens_: VI, 232.
_Thomas Gray_: VI, 369.
_George Rogers Clark_: VI, 422.
_Queen Victoria_: VII, 152.
_William Cowper_: VII, 331.
_John Greenleaf Whittier_: VII, 381.
_William Cullen Bryant_: VII, 391.
_Oliver Wendell Holmes_: VII, 398.
_James Russell Lowell_: VII, 411.
_Elizabeth Barrett Browning_: VII, 419.
_David Crockett_: VIII, 29.
_Pere Marquette_: VIII, 121.
_Washington Irving_: VIII, 216.
_Charles Lamb_: VIII, 328.
_Mary Lamb_: VIII, 328.
_William Shakespeare_: VIII, 468.
_Florence Nightingale_: IX, 13.
_Julius Caesar_: IX, 155.
_Geoffrey Chaucer_: IX, 201.
_Samuel Johnson_: IX, 216.
_Sir Francis Bacon_: IX, 395.
_John Keats_: IX, 457.
See LEGENDARY HEROES; HISTORY.

BJORNSON, BJORNSTJERNE.
Selection: _The Tree_: I, 301.

_Black Hawk Tragedy, The_: VII, 58.

BLAKE, WILLIAM.
Selection: _Infant Joy_: II, 10.

_Blind Lassie, The_: VI, 120.

_Block City_: I, 196.

_Bluebeard_: II, 22.

_Boat Song_: VII, 17.

_Book Lists, Supplementary_: X, 451.

_Boston Massacre, The_: IV, 217.

BOSWELL, JAMES.
Selection: From _The Life of Johnson_: IX, 216.

_Boy and the Nettle, The_: I, 65.

_Boyhood_: VI, 122.

_Boys and the Frogs, The_: I, 63.

_Braddock's Defeat_: V, 379.

BRANCH, MARY BOLLES.
Selection: _The Petrified Fern_, VII, 77.

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