A First Book in Writing English

by Edwin Herbert Lewis

Narration

1. Personal Contests:—Spartacus and Hermann, A. J. Church: Two Thousand Years Ago, p. 31 ff. Christian and Apollyon, Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, Fourth Stage. Archery, Scott: Ivanhoe, xiii. David and Goliath, I Samuel xvii. Nickleby and Squeers, Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby, xiii. The Boat Race, Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford. Siege of the Round House, Stevenson: Kidnapped, x. The Three-Handed Duel, Marryat: Midshipman Easy. The Tournament, Scott: Ivanhoe, xii.

2. Narrative chapters from: Aldrich: Story of a Bad Boy. Burnett: The One I Knew the Best of All. Hale: A New England Boyhood. Larcom: A New England Girlhood. Howells: My Year in a Log Cabin. Warner: Being a Boy.

3. Stories.—Hawthorne: The Snow Image; The Great Stone Face; Ethan Brand; Legends of the Province House; The Great Carbuncle; David Swan; The Vision of the Fountain; Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment; The Artist of the Beautiful.

Wilkins: A Humble Romance; The Bar Lighthouse; A Lover of Flowers; Gentian; A Conflict Ended; A Village Singer; Sister Liddy; A Gala Dress; A Village Lear; The Revolt of Mother.

Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: Spectators No. 110, 112, 113, 116, 118, 122, 123, 132, 269, 329, 335, 359, 383, 517.

4. History.—Green: History of the English People. Bæda, vol. i., ch. 2, pp. 64-67. Hastings, vol. i., ch. 4, pp. 113-114. Rising of baronage, B. iii., ch. 1, pp. 240-244. Calais, B. iv., ch. 2, pp. 422-425. Armada, B. vi., ch. 6, pp. 444-446. Return of Napoleon; Waterloo, B. ix., ch. 5, pp. 385-389.

McMasters: History of the People of the United States. Marietta, vol. i., 513-515. Death of Hamilton, vol. iii., 52-53. Leopard and Chesapeake, vol. iii., 258-259. Monroe’s journey, vol. iv., 377-380.

Fiske: Critical Period of American History. The Continental Congress, vol. i., ch. 3. Valley Forge, vol. ii., ch. 9.