TABLE OF CONTENTS - Junior High School Literature, Book 1

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Preface		[iii]
The Three Joys of Reading		[ix]
[PART I] Stories and Poems of Nature
[ANIMALS]
The Buffalo	Francis Parkman	[1]
Old Ephraim, the Grizzly Bear	Theodore Roosevelt	[15]
Moti Guj—Mutineer	Rudyard Kipling	[27]
The Elephants That Struck	Samuel White Baker	[35]
[BIRDS]
Robert of Lincoln	William Cullen Bryant	[39]
The Maryland Yellow-Throat	Henry van Dyke	[43]
The Belfry Pigeon	Nathaniel Parker Willis	[45]
The Sandpiper	Celia Thaxter	[47]
The Throstle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[49]
To the Cuckoo	William Wordsworth	[50]
The Birds’ Orchestra	Celia Thaxter	[52]
[FLOWERS AND TREES]
To the Fringed Gentian	William Cullen Bryant	[53]
Violet! Sweet Violet!	James Russell Lowell	[54]
To the Dandelion	James Russell Lowell	[56]
The Daffodils	William Wordsworth	[59]
The Trailing Arbutus	John Greenleaf Whittier	[60]
To a Mountain Daisy	Robert Burns	[61]
Sweet Peas	John Keats	[63]
Chorus of Flowers	Leigh Hunt	[64]
Trees	Joyce Kilmer	[68]
[WINTER]
The Great Blizzard	Hamlin Garland	[69]
The Frost	Hannah F. Gould	[75]
The Frost Spirit	John Greenleaf Whittier	[76]
The Snow Storm	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[78]
Snowflakes	Henry W. Longfellow	[80]
Midwinter	John T. Trowbridge	[82]
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind	William Shakespeare	[84]
When Icicles Hang by the Wall	William Shakespeare	[85]
[PART II] Adventures Old and New
Introduction		[89]
[THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY]
King Arthur Stories Adapted from	Sir Thomas Malory
The Coming of Arthur		[91]
The Story of Gareth		[105]
The Peerless Knight Lancelot		[126]
The Passing of Arthur		[149]
[NARRATIVES IN VERSE]
Sir Patrick Spens	Folk Ballad	[168]
The Skeleton in Armor	Henry W. Longfellow	[171]
The Three Fishers	Charles Kingsley	[177]
Lord Ullin’s Daughter	Thomas Campbell	[178]
The Pipes at Lucknow	John Greenleaf Whittier	[181]
Spanish Waters	John Masefield	[184]
Kilmeny—a Song of the Trawlers	Alfred Noyes	[186]
The Guards Came Through	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	[188]
[STORIES OF THE SEA]
A Descent Into the Maelstrom	Edgar Allan Poe	[191]
The Wreck of the Golden Mary	Charles Dickens	[210]
[TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE]
As You Like It	Charles and Mary Lamb	[259]
The Tempest	Charles and Mary Lamb	[275]
[PART III] Ideals and Heroes of Freedom
Introduction		[289]
[SCOTLAND’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE]
Tales of a Grandfather	Sir Walter Scott	[293]
The Story of Sir William Wallace		[293]
Robert the Bruce		[301]
The Battle of Bannockburn		[311]
Exploits of Douglas and Randolph		[318]
The Parting of Marmion and Douglas	Sir Walter Scott	[325]
Bruce’s Address at Bannockburn	Robert Burns	[328]
[ENGLAND AND FREEDOM]
The Last Fight of the Revenge	Sir Walter Raleigh	[330]
Ye Mariners of England	Thomas Campbell	[336]
England and America Natural Allies	John Richard Green	[338]
England and America in 1782	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[340]
England To Free Men	John Galsworthy	[341]
Men Who March Away	Thomas Hardy	[343]
[EARLY AMERICAN SPIRIT OF FREEDOM]
Grandfather’s Chair	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[345]
How New England Was Governed		[345]
The Pine-tree Shillings		[349]
The Stamp Act		[354]
British Soldiers Stationed in Boston		[359]
The Boston Massacre		[364]
Some Famous Portraits		[370]
The Gray Champion	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[376]
Warren’s Address at Bunker Hill	John Pierpont	[385]
Liberty Or Death	Patrick Henry	[386]
George Washington To His Wife		[390]
George Washington To Governor Clinton		[393]
Song of Marion’s Men	William Cullen Bryant	[395]
Times That Try Men’s Souls	Thomas Paine	[397]
[PART IV] Literature and Life in the Homeland
Introduction		[403]
[EARLY AMERICA]
The Character of Columbus	Archbishop Corrigan	[405]
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers	Felicia Hemans	[407]
Philip of Pokanoket	Washington Irving	[409]
The Courtship of Miles Standish	Henry W. Longfellow	[427]
[AMERICAN SCENES AND LEGENDS]
My Visit To Niagara	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[466]
On a Florida River	Sidney Lanier	[473]
I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress	Samuel Henry Dickson	[477]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	[479]
The Great Stone Face	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[510]
[AMERICAN LITERATURE OF LIGHTER VEIN]
The Celebrated Jumping Frog	Mark Twain	[531]
The Height of the Ridiculous	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[538]
The Gift of the Magi	O. Henry	[541]
The Renowned Wouter van Twiller	Washington Irving	[547]
[AMERICAN WORKERS AND THEIR WORK]
Makers of the Flag	Franklin K. Lane	[553]
I Hear America Singing	Walt Whitman	[556]
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	Walt Whitman	[557]
The Beanfield	Henry David Thoreau	[559]
Ship-builders	John Greenleaf Whittier	[562]
The Builders	Henry W. Longfellow	[566]
[LOVE OF COUNTRY]
The Flower of Liberty	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[568]
Old Ironsides	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[570]
The American Flag	Henry Ward Beecher	[572]
The American Flag	Joseph Rodman Drake	[574]
The Flag Goes By	Henry H. Bennett	[577]
The Star-spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	[578]
Citizenship	William Pierce Frye	[580]
The Character of Washington	Thomas Jefferson	[583]
The Twenty-second of February	William Cullen Bryant	[586]
Abraham Lincoln	Richard H. Stoddard	[587]
O Captain! My Captain!	Walt Whitman	[588]
In Flanders Fields	John D. McCrae	[590]
America’s Answer	R. W. Lillard	[591]
Glossary		[592]

THE LITERATURE SERIES
for the Junior High School

The complete series includes:

Book One, for the first year.
Book Two, for the second year.
Book Three, for the third year.