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Works of standard authors for supplementary reading in schools—complete selections or abridgments—with introductions and explanatory notes. Single numbers, 64 to 128 pages, stiff paper sides 12½ cents, cloth 20 cents; double numbers, 160 to 224 pages, stiff paper sides 20 cents, cloth 30 cents.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST TWENTY-FOUR (24) NUMBERS, ARRANGED BY COUNTRIES AND AUTHORS
Starred numbers are DOUBLE. All the works are complete, or contain complete selections, except those marked “abr.”
American Authors
COOPER—The Spy, No. 1, single (abr.), 128 pp.; *The Pilot, No. 2 (abr.), 181 pp.; *The Deerslayer, No. 8 (abr.), 160 pp.
DANA, R. H., Jr.—*Two Years Before the Mast, No. 19 (abr.), 173 pp.
HAWTHORNE—Twice-Told Tales, No. 15, single, complete selections, 128 pp.: The Village Uncle; The Ambitious Guest; Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe; A Rill from the Town Pump; The Great Carbuncle; David Swan; Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment; Peter Goldthwaite’s Treasure; The Threefold Destiny; Old Esther Dudley.
A Wonder-Book, for Girls and Boys, No. 16, single, complete selections, 121 pp.: The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden Apples; The Miraculous Pitcher.
The Snow-Image and other Twice-Told Tales, No. 20, single, complete selections, 121 pp.: The Snow-Image; The Great Stone Face; Little Daffydowndilly; The Vision of the Fountain; The Seven Vagabonds; Little Annie’s Ramble; The Prophetic Pictures.
IRVING—The Alhambra, No. 4, single, complete selections, 128 pp.: Palace of the Alhambra; Alhamar, the Founder of the Alhambra; Yusef Abul Hagig, the Finisher of the Alhambra; Panorama from the Tower of Comares; Legend of the Moor’s Legacy; Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra; The Governor and the Notary; Governor Manco and the Soldier; Legend of Two Discreet Statues; Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa; The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier.
The Sketch-Book, No. 17, single, complete selections, 121 pp.: The Author’s Account of Himself; The Broken Heart; The Spectre Bridegroom; Rural Life in England; The Angler; John Bull; The Christmas Dinner; Stratford-on-Avon.
Knickerbocker Stories, No. 23, single, complete selections, 140 pp.: I. Broek, or the Dutch Paradise; II. From Knickerbocker’s New York, (a) New Amsterdam under Van Twiller, (b) How William the Testy Defended the City, (c) Peter Stuyvesant’s Voyage up the Hudson; III. Wolfert’s Roost; IV. The Storm Ship; V. Rip Van Winkle; VI. A Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
KENNEDY, J. P.—*Horse-Shoe Robinson, a Tale of the Revolution, No. 10 (abr.), 192 pp.
LONGFELLOW—Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, No. 21, single, complete, 102 pp.
English Authors
BULWER-LYTTON—*Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings, No. 12 (abr.), 160 pp.
BYRON—The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems, No. 11, single, complete selections, 128 pp.: The Prisoner of Chillon; Mazeppa; Childe Harold.
DICKENS—Christmas Stories, No. 5, single (abr.), 142 pp.: A Christmas Carol; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Child’s Dream of a Star.
Little Nell (from Old Curiosity Shop), No. 22, single (abr.), 123 pp.
Paul Dombey (from Dombey and Son), No. 14, single (abr.), 128 pp.
SCOTT—*Ivanhoe, No. 24 (abr.), 180 pp. *Kenilworth, No. 7 (abr.), 164 pp.; *Lady of the Lake, No. 9, complete, 192 pp.; Rob Roy, No. 3, single (abr.), 130 pp.
SWIFT—Gulliver’s Travels, Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, No. 13, single (abr.), 128 pp.
TENNYSON—Enoch Arden and Other Poems, No. 6, single, complete selections, 110 pp.: Enoch Arden; The Coming of Arthur; The Passing of Arthur; Columbus; The May Queen; New Year’s Eve; Conclusion; Dora; The Charge of the Light Brigade; The Defence of Lucknow; Lady Clare; Break, Break, Break; The Brook; Bugle Song; Widow and Child; The Days That Are No More; I Envy Not; Oh, Yet We Trust; Ring Out, Wild Bells; Crossing the Bar (Tennyson’s last poem).
French Authors
HUGO, VICTOR—*Ninety-Three, No. 18 (abr.), 157 pp.
Grading.—For History Classes: Spy, Pilot, Deerslayer, Horse-Shoe Robinson, Knickerbocker Stories, Harold, Kenilworth, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, Ninety-Three, Alhambra. Geography: Two Years Before the Mast. English Literature: Evangeline, Lady of the Lake, Enoch Arden, Prisoner of Chillon, Sketch-Book. Lower Grammar Grades: Christmas Stories, Little Nell, Paul Dombey, Gulliver’s Travels, Twice-Told Tales. Primary Grades: Wonder-Book, Snow-Image.
Numbers 25 to 40
Each with Introduction and Notes. Starred numbers, double.
25. ROBINSON CRUSOE. Defoe. Illustrated. For Young Readers.
*26. POEMS OF KNIGHTLY ADVENTURE. Tennyson, Arnold, Macaulay, Lowell. Four Complete Selections.
*27. THE WATER WITCH. Cooper. With Map.
28. TALES OF A GRANDFATHER. Scott. Complete Selections.
*29. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Cooper. With Map.
30. THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. Bunyan. For Young Readers.
*31. BLACK BEAUTY. Sewell. Complete.
*32. THE YEMASSEE. Cooper. With Map.
*33. WESTWARD HO! Kingsley. With Map.
*34. ’ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. Verne.
35. SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. Wyss. Illustrated.
*36. THE CHILDHOOD OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. Dickens.
*37. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. Longfellow. Complete.
*38. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. Bulwer-Lytton.
39. FAIRY TALES. Second School Year. Selected Tales.
*40. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. Scott. Complete.
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W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C.: “I have examined very carefully one of the abridgments from Walter Scott, and I would not have believed the essentials of the story could have been retained with so severe an abridgment. But the story thus abridged has kept its interest and all of the chief threads of the plot. I am very glad that the great novels of Walter Scott are in course of publication by your house in such a form that school children, and older persons as yet unfamiliar with Walter Scott, may find an easy introduction. To read Walter Scott’s novels is a large part of a liberal education, but his discourses on the history of the times and his disquisitions on motives render his stories too hard for the person of merely elementary education. But if one can interest himself in the plot, and skip these learned passages, he may, on a second reading, be able to grasp the whole novel. Hence I look to such abridgments as you have made for a great extension of Walter Scott’s usefulness.”
William H. Maxwell, Superintendent of Public Instruction, New York City: “I take great pleasure in commending to those who are seeking for good reading in the schools, the Standard Literature Series. The editors of the series have struck out a new line in the preparation of literature for schools. They have taken great works of fiction and poetry, and so edited them as to omit what is beyond the comprehension, or what would weary the attention, of children in the higher grades of elementary schools.”
Walter B. Gunnison, Principal Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. “I have watched with much interest the issues of the new Standard Literature Series, and have examined them all with care. I regard them as a distinct addition to the school literature of our country. The selections are admirable—the annotations clear and comprehensive, and the form convenient and artistic.”
A. E. Winship, Editor “Journal of Education,” Boston, Mass. “I desire to acknowledge, after many days, the volumes ‘Kenilworth’ and ‘Harold,’ in the Standard Literature Series. I am much pleased with these books. It is a great service which you are rendering the schools. Our children must read all the British-American classics which have any bearing upon history, and, with all that is absolutely required of them in this day, they cannot do what they must do. There is a conflict of ‘oughts.’ You make it possible, here, for the child to get all he needs of each of all the books he must read. It is a great service. I admire the appreciation of the editors of their text.”
C. B. Gilbert, Superintendent of Schools, Newark, N. J. “The Standard Literature Series bids fair to prove a most valuable addition to literature available for use in schools. The books are well selected, carefully edited, and supplied with valuable notes and maps. ‘Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings,’ may serve as a type. For classes in English history it will prove invaluable, giving, as it does in the language of a master, a most vivid picture of early England; its struggles and its people. The Introduction paves the way for what is to follow. The portions omitted can be spared, and the notes are just enough to clear up difficult passages, but not enough to be burdensome.”
R. E. Denfeld, Superintendent of Schools, Duluth, Minn. “I have carefully read many of the numbers of the Standard Literature Series and do not hesitate to say that they are exceptionally well edited. One in particular I have in mind which was so carefully condensed as to make it of convenient size for a school reading book, and yet no part of the essentially connected matter was omitted.”
Henry R. Sanford, Institute Conductor for New York State, Penn Yan, N. Y. “You are doing a good thing in thus giving to the public cheap editions of standard literature.”
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Footnotes:
[1] The term “Continental” was applied to the army of the Colonies, to their Congress, to the money issued by Congress, etc.
[2] guesses.
[3] wrapper.
[4] declared.
[5] sharpness.
[6] eagerness.
[7] exactness in conduct.
[8] quickness and skill.
[9] centred upon one thing.
[10] looking at the surface only.
[11] love of gain.
[12] a door cut into halves, upper and lower.
[13] extreme.
[14] a British colonel.
[15] an American general; also spelled Sumter.
[16] a branch of the Broad, which is a branch of the Congaree River, South Carolina.
[17] irons for supporting wood in a fire-place.
[18] a village in Westchester County, north of the Harlem River.
[19] White Plains.
[20] regular troops, British.
[21] with scorn.
[22] readiness to converse.
[23] British spy, captured near Tarrytown, and hanged near Tappan.
[24] The glances conveyed a hidden meaning.
[25] DeLancey was a British officer in command of the Cow-Boys (see note, p. [30]).
[26] overspread.
[27] fears.
[28] a bright red color.
[29] open; frank.
[30] defeated.
[31] ended.
[32] Long Island Sound.
[33] waves.
[34] readiness.
[35] thinking.
[36] entertaining guests without pay.
[37] disturbed condition of mind.
[38] a stringed instrument that is caused to sound by the impulse of the air.
[39] fright.
[40] from the side.
[41] signs or motions.
[42] very great.
[43] using but few words.
[44] overcoat.
[45] change.
[46] on the Hudson, forty miles north of New York.
[47] is the duty of.
[48] to make easy.
[49] very hastily.
[50] trial.
[51] never to be loosened.
[52] free from blame.
[53] a mounted sentinel.
[54] These were Hessian soldiers (from Hesse-Cassel, in Germany) hired by Great Britain. The Cow-Boys were Americans enlisted as soldiers in the British army. On the next page they are referred to as the “refugee troop.”
[55] haughty.
[56] a noted park in London.
[57] changes in position.
[58] violent; fierce.
[59] that is, here, first lieutenant.
[60] inclination.
[61] threatening nature.
[62] It was a danger demanding immediate action.
[63] thinking quietly.
[64] foreshadowing something serious.
[65] search.
[66] lines of the face.
[67] They were known as “Skinners.”
[68] questions.
[69] fool.
[70] notes issued by the Continental Congress, worth but little.
[71] George III., King of England.
[72] little details.
[73] departure (literally, they go out).
[74] burial.
[75] agreements.
[76] forfeiting to the public treasury.
[77] supporter of the American cause.
[78] hard to suit.
[79] falling into decay.
[80] outburst.
[81] quickness.
[82] jocosely.
[83] change of sentinel.
[84] French aid was given the Americans.
[85] Colonists, who favored the British.
[86] counted.
[87] whipping.
[88] unsuccessful.
[89] gentleness, kindness.
[90] place of meeting.
[91] murder by secret assault.
[92] one not fighting.
[93] risk or danger.
[94] expressing one thing and meaning another.
[95] covered with a decorated cloth.
[96] upright windows built on a sloping roof.
[97] exclaimed.
[98] Sir Henry Clinton, commander of the English forces.
[99] a procession of persons on horseback.
[100] messenger.
[101] a stronghold on the Hudson.
[102] middle age.
[103] name.
[104] one who studies cases of conscience.
[105] communication of disease by contact.
[106] an American officer who was detected within the British lines in disguise.
[107] General Nathanael Greene, a noted American commander.
[108] William; a general in the American army, who organized the forces at Cambridge before the battle of Bunker Hill.
[109] Alexander Hamilton, aide-de-camp to Washington.
[110] wild and extravagant notions.
[111] aversion, dislike.
[112] refined—exalted.
[113] a city of Switzerland.
[114] read account in the book of Daniel (Bible).
[115] not sincere.
[116] very hungry.
[117] surveying the situation with his eye.
[118] medley.
[119] with haste.
[120] exciting fear.
[121] a woman’s short cloak.
[122] clefts or openings.
[123] sword.
[124] overcoat.
[125] arrest.
[126] penalty.
[127] She thought his sense of duty too exacting.
[128] marriage.
[129] pretence.
[130] a river flowing into the Hudson about thirty-two miles above New York; high ground bordering on this river.
[131] a ship of war.
[132] respect.
[133] forms required by good breeding.
[134] a former Spanish coin, worth about $8.
[135] name of river and falls between New York and Canada.
[136] bottomless depth.
[137] a village in Canada, twenty-one miles northwest of Buffalo.
[138] manner.
[139] a fort on the Canada side of the Niagara River, where it flows into Lake Ontario.
[140] a road leading west from Niagara River, near Niagara Falls.
[141] General Winfield Scott, commander of the American forces.
[142] torch.
[143] unrewarded.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters’ errors; otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author’s words and intent.
2. The original of this book did not have a Table of Contents; one has been added for the reader’s convenience.