CONTENTS

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[The Daffodils]William Wordsworth[1]
[To the Fringed Gentian]William Cullen Bryant[4]
[To a Mouse]Robert Burns[5]
[To a Mountain Daisy]Robert Burns[8]
[The Old Oaken Bucket]Samuel Wordsworth[11]
[Bannockburn]Robert Burns[15]
[Boat Song]Sir Walter Scott[17]
[The Governor and the Notary]Washington Irving[20]
[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]Samuel T. Coleridge[29]
[The Black Hawk Tragedy]Edwin D. Coe[58]
[The Petrified Fern]Mary Bolles Branch[77]
[An Exciting Canoe Race]J. Fenimore Cooper[79]
[The Buffalo]Francis Parkman[96]
[The Charge of the Light Brigade]Alfred Tennyson[147]
[For A’ That and A’ That]Robert Burns[149]
[Breathes There the Man]Sir Walter Scott[151]
[How Sleep the Brave]William Collins[151]
[Queen Victoria]Anna McCaleb[152]
[The Recessional]Rudyard Kipling[164]
[The Star-spangled Banner]Francis Scott Key[167]
[How’s My Boy?]Sydney Dobell[169]
[The Soldier’s Dream]Thomas Campbell[170]
[Make Way for Liberty]James Montgomery[172]
[The Old Continentals]Guy Humphreys McMaster[175]
[The Picket-Guard]Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers[177]
[My Old Kentucky Home]Stephen Collins Foster[179]
[The Forsaken Merman]Matthew Arnold[180]
[Tom and Maggie Tulliver]George Eliot[186]
[A Gorilla Hunt]Paul du Chaillu[247]
[The Cloud]Percy Bysshe Shelley[257]
[Brute Neighbors]Henry David Thoreau[260]
[Ode To a Skylark]Percy Bysshe Shelley[275]
[The Pond in Winter]Henry David Thoreau[280]
[Salmon Fishing]Rudyard Kipling[285]
[Winter Animals]Henry David Thoreau[293]
[Trees and Ants That Help Each Other]Thomas Belt[306]
[The Family of Michael Arout]Emile Souvestre[314]
[On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture]William Cowper[331]
[Those Evening Bells]Thomas Moore[340]
[Annabel Lee]Edgar Allan Poe[341]
[The Three Fishers]Charles Kingsley[343]
[The Reaper’s Dream]Thomas Buchanan Read[345]
[The Recovery of the Hispaniola]Robert Louis Stevenson[352]
[John Greenleaf Whittier]Grace E. Sellon[381]
[William Cullen Bryant][391]
[To a Waterfowl]William Cullen Bryant[395]
[Oliver Wendell Holmes]Grace E. Sellon[398]
[The Cubes of Truth]Oliver Wendell Holmes[406]
[The Lost Child]James Russell Lowell[409]
[James Russell Lowell]Grace E. Sellon[411]
[A Child’s Thought of God]Elizabeth Barrett Browning[418]
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning][419]
[Don Quixote]Cervantes[431]
[Pronunciation of Proper Names][487]

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[The Canoe Race] (Color Plate)R. F. Babcock[Frontispiece]
[A Host of Golden Daffodils]Albert H. Winkler[2]
[The Fringed Gentian]G. H. Mitchell[4]
[Thou Need Na Start Awa]Albert H. Winkler[6]
[Robert Burns] (Halftone)[8]
[Thou Bonny Gem]Albert H. Winkler[9]
[Inclined to My Lips]Herbert N. Rudeen[12]
[The Notary Enters the Carriage]R. F. Babcock[26]
[He Cannot Choose but Hear] (Heading)Donn P. Crane[29]
[I Shot the Albatross]Donn P. Crane[33]
[And Straight the Sun Was Flecked With Bars]Donn P. Crane[38]
[I Watched the Water-Snakes]Donn P. Crane[42]
[They Groaned, They Stirred, They All Uprose]Donn P. Crane[45]
[Slowly and Smoothly Went the Skip] (Color Plate)Donn P. Crane[48]
[“O Shrieve Me, Shrieve Me, Holy Man”]Donn P. Crane[55]
[I Pass From Land To Land] (Ending)Donn P. Crane[57]
[Black Hawk and the Two Ruffians]R. F. Babcock[63]
[The Women and Children Crossed the River]R. F. Babcock[71]
[Hawkeye on the Trail]R. F. Babcock[80]
[James Fenimore Cooper] (Halftone)[82]
[Hawkeye]R. F. Babcock[85]
[Gradually I Came Abreast of Him]R. F. Babcock[106]
[One Vast Host of Buffalo]R. F. Babcock[125]
[On Dune and Headland]G. H. Mitchell[165]
[The Little Gray Church on the Windy Hill]Walter O. Reese[181]
[“Tom’s Coming Home!”]Herbert N. Rudeen[188]
[“Oh, He is Cruel”]Herbert N. Rudeen[199]
[“Is it the Tipsy Cake, Then?”]Herbert N. Rudeen[206]
[“Here, Lucy!”]Herbert N. Rudeen[224]
[“Ah, You’re Fondest O’ Me, Aren’t You?”]Herbert N. Rudeen[243]
[Gorilla With Her Young]Herbert N. Rudeen[251]
[The Battle of the Ants]Herbert N. Rudeen[265]
[Watching for the Loon]R. F. Babcock[272]
[The Skylark]R. F. Babcock[276]
[Kneeling To Drink]R. F. Babcock[281]
[Salmon Fishing] (Color Plate)R. F. Babcock[286]
[The Red Squirrel Stealing Corn]R. F. Babcock[296]
[“How Much Do We Owe You?”]Herbert N. Rudeen[320]
[Michael is Come Back]Herbert N. Rudeen[326]
[“My Mother!”]Iris Weddell White[336]
[In Her Sepulchre There by the Sea]Donn P. Crane[342]
[The Night Rack Came Rolling Up]G. H. Mitchell[344]
[The Crescent Moon Went by]G. H. Mitchell[347]
[I Looked Into the Cabin]R. F. Babcock[354]
[Whittier’s Birthplace] (Color Plate)[382]
[John Greenleaf Whittier] (Halftone)[386]
[William Cullen Bryant] (Halftone)[392]
[Thy Figure Floats Along]Jerome Rozen[396]
[Oliver Wendell Holmes] (Halftone)[398]
[Down the Sunny Glade]Walter O. Reese[409]
[James Russell Lowell] (Halftone)[412]
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning] (Halftone)[420]
[Don Quixote] (Heading)Donn P. Crane[431]
[Don Quixote Tilts with the Windmills]Donn P. Crane[439]
[“Defend Thyself, Miserable Being!”]Donn P. Crane[444]
[The Lion Put His Head Out of the Cage]Donn P. Crane[455]
[Sancho Fell on His Knees]Donn P. Crane[464]
[The Horse Blew Up, with a Prodigious Noise]Donn P. Crane[475]