EIGHTH GRADE
Literature
*17 Enoch Arden—Tennyson †
*18 Vision of Sir Launfal—Lowell †
*19 Cotter's Saturday Night—Burns †
*23 The Deserted Village—Goldsmith
*126 Rime of the Ancient Mariner †
*127 Gray's Elegy and Other Poems
*128 Speeches of Lincoln
129 Julius Cæsar—Selections
130 Henry the VIII—Selections
131 Macbeth—Selections
*142 Scott's Lady of the Lake—Canto I †
154 Scott's Lady of the Lake—Canto II †
143 Building of the Ship and other Poems—Longfellow
148 Horatius, Ivry, The Armada—Macaulay
*150 Bunker Hill Address and Selections from Adams and Jefferson Oration—Webster †
*151 Gold Bug, The—Poe
153 Prisoner of Chillon and other poems—Byron †
155 Rhoecus and Other Poems—Lowell †
156 Edgar Allan Poe—Biography and selected poems—Link
*158 Washington's Farewell Address and Other Papers †
169 Abram Joseph Ryan—Biography and selected poems—Smith
170 Paul H. Hayne—Biography and selected poems—Link
215 Life of Samuel Johnson—Macaulay †
*221 Sir Roger de Coverley Papers—Addison †
*236 Poems Worth Knowing—Book IV—Advanced—Faxon
237 Lay of the Last Minstrel—Scott. Introduction and Canto I †
† These have biographical sketch of author, with introduction or explanatory notes.
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*Limp Cloth Binding. The titles indicated by (*) are supplied also in limp cloth binding at 10 cents per copy.
[EXCELSIOR LITERATURE SERIES]
Annotated Classics and Supplementary Readers
| 1 | Evangeline. Biography, introduction, oral and written exercises and notes. | 10c |
| 3 | Courtship of Miles Standish. Longfellow. With introduction and notes. | 10c |
| 5 | Vision of Sir Launfal. Lowell. Biography, introduction, notes, outlines. | 10c |
| 7 | Enoch Arden. Tennyson. Biography, introduction, notes, outlines, questions. | 10c |
| 9 | Great Stone Face. Hawthorne. Biography, introduction, notes, outlines. | 10c |
| 11 | Browning's Poems. Selected poems with notes and outlines for study. | 10c |
| 13 | Wordsworth's Poems. Selected poems with introduction, notes and outlines. | 10c |
| 15 | Sohrab and Rustum. Arnold. With introduction, notes and outlines. | 10c |
| 17 | The Children's Poet. Study of Longfellow's poetry for children, with poems. | 10c |
| 19 | A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. Complete with notes. | 10c |
| 21 | Cricket on the Hearth. Chas. Dickens. Complete with notes. | 10c |
| 23 | Familiar Legends. McFee. Old tales retold for young people. | 10c |
| 25 | Some Water Birds. McFee. Description, and stories of, Fourth to Sixth grades. | 10c |
| 27 | Hiawatha. Introduction and notes. | 15c |
| 29 | Milton's Minor Poems. Biography, introduction, notes, questions, critical comments and pronouncing vocabulary. | 10c |
| 31 | Idylls of the King. (Coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, Passing of Arthur.) Biography, introduction, notes, questions, critical comments, and pronouncing vocabulary. | 15c |
| 33 | Silas Marner. Eliot. Biography, notes, questions, critical comments, bibliography, 238 pages. Paper. | 20c |
| 34 | Same in cloth binding. | 30c |
| 35 | Lady of the Lake. Scott. Biography, introduction and extended notes, pronouncing vocabulary. | 15c |
| 37 | Literature of the Bible—Heilig. | 15c |
| 59 | The Sketch Book (Selected)—Irving. Biography, introduction and notes. | 15c |
[Transcriber's Notes:]
Added table of contents.
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Moved advertising from inside front cover to end of book.
Page 4, added missing close quote after "miserable all the time."
Page 7, changed "walunt" to "walnut."
Page 17, changed "the managed" to "he managed."
Page 18, moved punctuation inside quotes for "How is this?"
Page 24, changed "Sherwod Forest" to "Sherwood Forest" at top of page.
Page 27, added missing quote after "better than any others."
Page 29, added missing period after "obeyed him."
Back cover, added missing period after Dickens in Cricket on the Hearth listing; changed "Familar Legends" to "Familiar Legends."