ld's Grace Robert Burns 260

A Howdy Song Joel Chandler Harris 261

Duty Ralph Waldo Emerson 261

Bud's Fairy Tale James Whitcomb Riley 262

The Boy that was Scaret o' Dyin' Annie Trumbull Slosson 268

What Does Little Birdie Say? Lord Tennyson 270

Laetus Sorte Mea
(from "The Story of a Short Life") Juliana H. Ewing 271

The Victor of Marengo 275

Good Morning Robert Browning 279

Miranda and Her Friend Kroof
(from "The Heart of the Ancient Wood") Charles G. D. Roberts 277

Little Nell Charles Dickens 282

Parsifal the Pure (from "Stories from Wagner") 285

=NO. 4=

Editorials 289-292

Charles Sumner Carl Schurz 293

How the Elephant Got His Trunk Rudyard Kipling 295

The Owl Lord Tennyson 299

T'nowhead's Bell J. M. Barrie 300

John Storm's Resolution Hall Cain 308

The Flood of the Floss George Eliot 314

The Real Muck Rake Man Henry van Dyke 319

The Hunt Mercy E. Baker 322

Francois Villon, About to Die John D. Swain 323

Lady Moon Lord Haughton 326

A Good Dinner Mary Stuart Cutting 326

My Rival Rudyard Kipling 328

Imph-m James Nicholson 328

Looking Forward Robert Louis Stevenson 329

Mrs. Atwood's Raiment Mary Stuart Cutting 330

Hymn of a Child Charles Wesley 341

The Day of Precious Penalties Marion Hill 342

Cradle Hymn Martin Luther 349

A Kentucky Cinderella F. Hopkinson Smith 350

At Lincoln's Tomb Robertus Love 355

Mammy's Pickanin'