al permission
to reproduce selected poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
Rudyard Kipling, Sir F. H. Doyle, Cecil Frances Alexander; to Longmans,
Green & Co., for the selections from Froude's "Short Studies on Great
Subjects" and from his "History of England"; to Smith, Elder & Co., for
the extract from F. T. Bullen's "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to Elkin
Mathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from "The Island Race"; to Thomas
Nelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier's "History of the
British Empire"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for selected poems from
the works of Charles G. D. Roberts, and of Agnes Maule Machar; to the
Hunter-Rose Company for the extract from Canniff Haight's "Country Life
in Canada"; to Morang & Company for selected poems from the works of
Archibald Lampman, and for the extract from Roberts' "History of
Canada"; and to Houghton Mifflin Company for the article from "_The
Atlantic Monthly_" on "British Colonial and Naval Power."

The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others,
not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to include
in this Reader so many copyright selections.

Toronto, May, 1909.

CONTENTS

_The Children's Song_ _Rudyard Kipling_
_Our Country_ _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_
Tom Tulliver at School _George Eliot_
_Ingratitude_ _William Shakespeare_
_The Giant_ _Charles Mackay_
The Discovery of America _William Robertson_
_The First Spring Day_ _Christina G. Rossetti_
The Battle of the Pipes _Robert Louis Stevenson_
_Bega_ _Marjorie L. C. Pickthall_
_A Musical Instrument_ _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_
Wolfe and Montcalm _Francis Parkman_
_Canada_ _Charles G. D. Roberts_
Scrooge's Christmas _Charles Dickens_
_Hands All Round_ _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_
Judah's Supplication to Joseph _Bible_
_Miriam's Song_ _Thomas Moore_
_The Destruction of Sennacherib_ _George Gordon, Lord Byron_
The Lark at the Diggings _Charles Reade_
_The Ancient Mariner_ _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_
At the Close of the French Period
in Canada