y W. Longfellow 63

The Schoolmaster and the Boys Charles Dickens 65

_The Knights' Chorus_ Alfred, Lord Tennyson 70

_The Northern Star_ Unknown 71

_The Indigo Bird_ Ethelwyn Wetherald 72

_The Pasture Field_ Ethelwyn Wetherald 73

Shipwrecked Robert Louis Stevenson 75

_On His Blindness_ John Milton 80

Briggs in Luck William M. Thackeray 81

_The Laughing Sally_ Charles G. D. Roberts 84

The Prodigal Son Bible 88

_Christmas at Sea_ Robert Louis Stevenson 90

_The Evening Wind_ William Cullen Bryant 93

_Paradise and the Peri_ Thomas Moore 95

_The Lady of Shalott_ Alfred, Lord Tennyson 100

_Home they brought her
Warrior dead_ Alfred, Lord Tennyson 107

The Sky John Ruskin 108

_The Return of the Swallows_ Edmund W. Gosse 111

_Barbara Frietchie_ John Greenleaf Whittier 113

Bless the Lord, O My Soul Bible 116

_The Eternal Goodness_ John Greenleaf Whittier 118

The King of Glory Bible 119

The Four-Horse Race "Ralph Connor" 121

_Mrs. Malaprop's Views_ Richard B. Sheridan 126

_The Glove and the Lions_ Leigh Hunt 131

_The Fickleness of a Roman Mob_ William Shakespeare 133

_Sir Peter and Lady Teazle_ Richard B. Sheridan 136

_The Parting of Marmion
and Douglas_ Sir Walter Scott 140

_Columbus_ Joaquin Miller 143

From the "Apology" of Socrates Benjamin Jowett 145

_Highland Hospitality_ Sir Walter Scott 151

_The Outlaw_ Sir Walter Scott 154

Of Studies Francis, Lord Bacon