CONTENTS

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[Ringrose and His Buccaneers][1]
[David Crockett][29]
[David Crockett in the Creek War][37]
[America]Samuel Francis Smith[60]
[The Retreat of Cortés]William H. Prescott[63]
[Battle of Ivry]Thomas Babington Macaulay[76]
[The Battle of Thermopylae][81]
[Marco Bozzaris]Fitz-Greene Halleck[90]
[A Descent Into the Maelstrom]Edgar Allan Poe[95]
[Père Marquette]Jared Sparks[121]
[The Fall of the Alamo][141]
[The Alhambra]Washington Irving[153]
[Hervé Riel]Robert Browning[168]
[The Battle of Waterloo]Lord Byron[176]
[How They Took the Gold-Train]Charles Kingsley[180]
[A Bed of Nettles]Grant Allen[209]
[Washington Irving][216]
[The Knickerbocker History of New York]Washington Irving[224]
[The Battle of Trafalgar]Robert Southey[284]
[Casabianca]Felicia Hemans[313]
[The Romance of the Swan’s Nest]Elizabeth Barrett Browning[315]
[The Cotter’s Saturday Night]Robert Burns[319]
[Charles and Mary Lamb][328]
[Dream Children: A Revery]Charles Lamb[335]
[Reading Shakespeare][346]
[The Tempest, A Tale from Shakespeare]Charles and Mary Lamb[348]
[The Tempest]William Shakespeare[364]
[Studies for The Tempest][468]
[Pronunciation of Proper Names][489]

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[Prospero and Miranda] (Color Plate)Arthur Henderson[Frontispiece]
[We Rowed Away Down the River]Herbert N. Rudeen[3]
[A Battle at Long Range Commenced]Herbert N. Rudeen[21]
[A Cross with Several Letters Beside it]Herbert N. Rudeen[25]
[I Said Farewell to My Wife and Children]R. F. Babcock[39]
[I Found a Deer That Had Just Been Killed]R. F. Babcock[45]
[Piloted by Friendly Indians] (Color Plate)R. F. Babcock[48]
[The Attack on the Fort]R. F. Babcock[55]
[Battle on the Causeway]Louis Grell[69]
[They Dragged Their Feeble Limbs With Difficulty]Louis Grell[74]
[Charge for the Golden Lilies Now]Louis Grell[79]
[Their Last Encounter]Herbert N. Rudeen[89]
[The Turk Awoke]Iris Weddell White[92]
[The Gift of the Calumet]R. F. Babcock[129]
[At the Portage]R. F. Babcock[137]
[On the Mississippi (Color Plate)]R. F. Babcock[138]
[The Mexicans Storm the Fort]Louis Grell[146]
[The Defenders Firing from Windows]Louis Grell[148]
[Colonel Bowie Used His Weapons to the Last]Louis Grell[150]
[The Gate of Justice]G. H. Mitchell[154]
[The Court of Lions]G. H. Mitchell[157]
[The Hall of Abencerrages]G. H. Mitchell[160]
[They Follow in a Flock]Louis Grell[172]
[But Hark!]Iris Weddell White[177]
[Do Not Shoot Till I Do]Louis Grell[188]
[Solemnly he Approached, Staff in Hand]Louis Grell[197]
[Washington Irving (Halftone)][216]
[Here They Refreshed Themselves]Arthur Henderson[238]
[He Was Interrupted by Wandle Schoonhoven]Arthur Henderson[252]
[William the Testy]Arthur Henderson[265]
[The Testy William Issued Forth Like a Wrathful Spider]Arthur Henderson[267]
[There Came on the Intrepid Peter (Color Plate)]Arthur Henderson[274]
[I Shall Yet Have to Beat Them!]Herbert N. Rudeen[286]
[An Incessant Fire was Kept up by the “Victory”]Herbert N. Hedden[303]
[He Fell Upon His Face]Herbert N. Rudeen[305]
[An Old Quartermaster Had Seen Him Fire]Herbert N. Rudeen[309]
[Little Ellie Sits Alone (Color Plate)]Arthur Henderson[316]
[Th’ Expectant Wee-Things]Herbert N. Rudeen[321]
[Round the Ingle]Herbert N. Rudeen[325]
[Charles Lamb (Halftone)][328]
[Roaming About That Huge Mansion]Herbert N. Rudeen[339]
[He Would Mount a Mettlesome Horse]Herbert N. Rudeen[341]
[William Shakespeare (Halftone)][346]
[Ferdinand Leaped]Iris Weddell White[353]
[Tell Your Piteous Heart]Iris Weddell White[371]
[Antonio and Sebastian Plotting]Iris Weddell White[403]
[Pray you Work Not so Hard]Iris Weddell White[421]
[Ceres Enters, at Iris’ Call]Iris Weddell White[439]
[Stephano and Trinculo Quarrel]Iris Weddell White[448]
[Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I]Iris Weddell White[455]
[Look Down, You Gods, on This Couple]Iris Weddell White[461]