CONTENTS

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[Horatius]Lord Macaulay[1]
[Lord Ullin’s Daughter]Thomas Campbell[23]
[Sir Walter Scott]Grace E. Sellon[26]
[The Tournament]Sir Walter Scott[38]
[The Rainbow]Thomas Campbell[91]
[The Lion and the Missionary]David Livingstone[93]
[The Moss Rose]Translated from Krummacher[98]
[Four Ducks on a Pond]William Allingham[98]
[Rab and His Friends]John Brown, M.D.[99]
[Annie Laurie]William Douglas[119]
[The Blind Lassie]T. C. Latto[120]
[Boyhood]Washington Allston[122]
[Sweet and Low]Alfred Tennyson[122]
[Childhood]Donald G. Mitchell[124]
[The Bugle Song]Alfred Tennyson[133]
[The Imitation of Christ]Thomas à Kempis[134]
[The Destruction of Sennacherib]Lord Byron[141]
[Ruth][143]
[The Vision of Belshazzar]Lord Byron[153]
[Sohrab and Rustem][157]
[Sohrab and Rustum]Matthew Arnold[173]
[The Poet and the Peasant]Emile Souvestre[206]
[John Howard Payne and Home, Sweet Home][221]
[Auld Lang Syne]Robert Burns[228]
[Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead]Alfred Tennyson[231]
[Charles Dickens][232]
[A Christmas Carol]Charles Dickens[244]
[Christmas in Old Time]Sir Walter Scott[356]
[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]Thomas Gray[360]
[The Shipwreck]Robert Louis Stevenson[371]
[Elephant Hunting]Roualeyn Gordon Cumming[385]
[Some Clever Monkeys]Thomas Belt[402]
[Poor Richard’s Almanac]Benjamin Franklin[407]
[George Rogers Clark][422]
[The Capture of Vincennes]George Rogers Clark[428]
[Three Sundays in a Week]Edgar Allan Poe[453]
[The Modern Belle]Stark[463]
[Widow Machree]Samuel Lover[464]
[Limestone Broth]Gerald Griffin[467]
[The Knock-Out]Davy Crockett[471]
[The Country Squire]Thomas Yriarte[474]
[To My Infant Son]Thomas Hood[478]
[Pronunciation of Proper Names][481]

For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of Volume X

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[The Tournament] (Color Plate)Donn P. Crane[Frontispiece]
[The Long Array of Helmets Bright]Herbert N. Rudeen[5]
[“Lie There,” He Cried, “Fell Pirate”]Herbert N. Rudeen[13]
[Horatio in His Harness, Halting Upon One Knee]Herbert N. Rudeen[21]
[“Boatman, Do Not Tarry”]Herbert N. Rudeen[24]
[Sir Walter Scott] (Halftone)[26]
[Abbotsford] (Color Plate)[30]
[Throng Going To the Lists]R. F. Babcock[41]
[The Disinherited Knight Unhorses Bryan]R. F. Babcock[59]
[The Armour Makers]R. F. Babcock[69]
[Prince John Throws Down the Truncheon]R. F. Babcock[85]
[Rowena Crowning Disinherited Knight]R. F. Babcock[89]
[“Rab, Ye Thief!”]Herbert N. Rudeen[103]
[James Buried His Wife]Herbert N. Rudeen[117]
[She Reaches Down to Dip Her Toe]Herbert N. Rudeen[125]
[Poor Tray is Dead]Herbert N. Rudeen[132]
[“Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go”]R. F. Babcock[145]
[Ruth Gleaning]R. F. Babcock[147]
[The Writing on the Wall]Louis Grell[155]
[Sohrab and Peran-Wisa] (Color Plate)Louis Grell[174]
[Peran-Wisa Gives Sohrab’s Challenge]R. F. Babcock[179]
[The Spear Rent the Tough Plates]R. F. Babcock[191]
[Rustum Sorrows Over Sohrab]R. F. Babcock[203]
[Matthew Arnold] (Halftone)[204]
[John Howard Payne] (Halftone)[222]
[There Is No Place Like Home]Iris Weddell White[225]
[For Auld Lang Syne]Herbert N. Rudeen[230]
[Charles Dickens] (Halftone)[232]
[The Clerk Smiled Faintly]Iris Weddell White[255]
[“In Life I Was Your Partner, Jacob Marley”]Iris Weddell White[263]
[In the Best Parlor]Iris Weddell White[281]
[The Fiddler Struck up “Sir Roger de Coverley”]Iris Weddell White[285]
[Upon the Couch There Sat a Jolly Giant]Iris Weddell White[297]
[Bob and Tiny Tim] (Color Plate)Hazel Frazee[304]
[There Never Was Such a Goose]Iris Weddell White[307]
[“So I Am Told,” Returned the Second]Iris Weddell White[329]
[He Read His Own Name]Iris Weddell White[344]
[He Stood by the Window—Glorious!]Iris Weddell White[348]
[“A Merry Christmas, Bob!”]Iris Weddell White[355]
[Homeward Plods His Weary Way]R. F. Babcock[361]
[The Country Churchyard]R. F. Babcock[369]
[I Found I Was Holding to a Spar]Herbert N. Rudeen[372]
[With Beating Heart I Approached a View]R. F. Babcock[397]
[A Cebus Monkey]Herbert N. Rudeen[405]
[The Sleeping Fox Catches No Poultry]Herbert N. Rudeen[411]
[Clark Took the Lead]R. F. Babcock[433]
[We Met at the Church]R. F. Babcock[449]
[“Well, Then, Bobby, My Boy”]Herbert N. Rudeen[455]
[In Kate, However, I Had a Firm Friend]Herbert N. Rudeen[458]
[“Faith, I Wish You’d Take Me!”]Herbert N. Rudeen[465]
[He Soon Sees a Farmhouse at a Little Distance]Herbert N. Rudeen[468]
[The Squire’s Library]Iris Weddell White[475]
[“There Goes My Ink!”]Lucille Enders[479]

HORATIUS