School Reading by Grades: Sixth Year

by James Baldwin

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
Two Ways of Telling a Story	Jean Ingelow	[7]
The Death of the Flowers	William Cullen Bryant	[18]
The Great Volcanic Eruption	J. T. Van Gestel	[20]
The Return of Columbus	Washington Irving	[25]
What the Sunbeams do	Arabella B. Buckley	[29]
Horatius at the Bridge	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[32]
How Sir Francis Drake sailed round the World	James A. Froude	[44]
A Brave Rescue and a Rough Ride	Richard D. Blackmore	[51]
The Glory of God	From the Psalms of David	[65]
The Battle of Bannockburn	Sir Walter Scott	[66]
The Soldier's Dream	Thomas Campbell	[75]
Lord Ullin's Daughter	Thomas Campbell	[76]
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata		[78]
The Story of Tempe Wick	Frank R. Stockton	[83]
Life in Norman England	W. F. Collier	[89]
The Romance of the Swan's Nest	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	[98]
A Patriarch of the Olden Time	From the "Book of Job"	[102]
How Cortés entered the City of Mexico	William H. Prescott	[104]
The Skylark	James Hogg	[112]
The Mystery of the Tadpole	George Henry Lewes	[113]
The Glove and the Lions	Leigh Hunt	[119]
True Growth	Ben Jonson	[120]
The Shipwreck	Charles Dickens	[121]
The Happy Valley	Dr. Samuel Johnson	[135]
The Pass of Killiecrankie	W. E. Aytoun	[138]
Summer Rain	Henry Ward Beecher	[143]
Life in the Backwoods	William Dean Howells	[146]
How they besieged the Town	Charles Reade	[153]
Lochinvar	Sir Walter Scott	[163]
On a Tropical River	Charles Kingsley	[165]
The Flag of Our Country	Robert C. Winthrop	[173]
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571	Jean Ingelow	[175]
The Story of Thomas Becket
I. His Life	Anonymous	[181]
II. His Death	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	[185]
The Pilgrims (1620)	Edward Everett	[191]
The Landing of the Pilgrims	Felicia Hemans	[195]
Patriotism	William Cowper	[196]
The Robin	Charles Conrad Abbott	[197]
Motions of Birds	Gilbert White	[200]
Origin of Rivers	John Tyndall	[202]
Address at the Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery	Abraham Lincoln	[205]
The American Flag	Joseph Rodman Drake	[206]
The Last Fight in the Coliseum, A.D. 404	Charlotte M. Yonge	[208]
The Passing of Arthur	Alfred Tennyson	[216]
The Principles of Good Reading		[225]
Authors and Books		[228]
Explanatory Notes		[235]

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

	ARTIST
Columbus at Barcelona	R. Balaca	[24]
The Defense of the Bridge	A. I. Keller	[37]
Ruins of a Norman Castle	From a photograph	[90]
The Lions	Rosa Bonheur	[118]
The Shipwreck	A. Marlon	[129]
Canterbury Cathedral	From a photograph	[187]
The Departure of the Mayflower	A. W. Bayes	[194]
The Last Prayer—Christian Martyrs in the Coliseum	J. L. Gerome	[212]

PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS.

Washington Irving		[Title-page]
Thomas Babington Macaulay		[32]
James Anthony Froude		[50]
Thomas Campbell		[76]
Frank R. Stockton		[83]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning		[98]
William H. Prescott		[104]
George Henry Lewes		[113]
Leigh Hunt		[119]
Charles Dickens		[121]
Dr. Samuel Johnson		[135]
Henry Ward Beecher		[143]
William Dean Howells		[146]
Charles Reade		[153]
Charles Kingsley		[165]
Jean Ingelow		[175]
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley		[191]
Edward Everett		[192]
John Tyndall		[202]
Abraham Lincoln		[205]
Joseph Rodman Drake		[206]
Charlotte M. Yonge		[208]

Acknowledgments are due to the following persons for their courteous permission to use valuable selections from their works: Dr. Charles C. Abbott for the essay on "The Robin"; Mr. William Dean Howells for his sketch of "Life in the Backwoods"; The J. B. Lippincott Company for the selections from Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" and Abbott's "Birdland Echoes"; and Mr. Frank R. Stockton for "The Story of Tempe Wicke."

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