Bryant: The White-footed Deer; The Woodman and the Sandal Tree; The Donkey and the Mocking Bird, and other poems from the Spanish.
Dickens: Little Nell (Old Curiosity Shop); Tiny Tim (Christmas Carol); Nicholas Nickleby; David Copperfield, and other child characters of Dickens.
George Eliot: Maggie Tulliver Cutting her Hair, Maggie Running Away to Live with the Gypsies, Tom and the Ferrets (The Mill on the Floss); Silas Marner and Little Eppie (Silas Marner).
Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Sketch Book); The Governor and the Notary (Other stories from Tales from the Alhambra); The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Many chapters in this contain fascinating stories, which if told to the children will lead them to read the work); Rip Van Winkle (The Sketch Book) (Tell also the German story of Peter Claus, from which Irving drew his inspiration to write this tale; also the Chinese story, “The Feast of Lanterns,” the hero of which is an oriental Rip Van Winkle).
Kingsley: How They Took the Gold Train (Westward Ho!); Water Babies; Hypatia.
Longfellow: Evangeline; Courtship of Miles Standish; Hiawatha; King Robert of Sicily; St. Francis’ Sermon to the Birds (Tell story of St. Francis of Assisi); Paul Revere’s Ride; The Emperor’s Bird’s Nest; Walther von der Vogelweide (In this connection tell story of Walther and the Minnesingers. Story can be found in Pan and His Pipes, and Other Stories, Victor Talking Machine Company).
Southey: Inchcape Rock; Bishop Hatto and the Mouse Tower; The Well of St. Keyne.
Stevenson: Treasure Island; Kidnapped; Island Nights’ Entertainment.
Tennyson: The Holy Grail (This poem is beyond the understanding of boys and girls of grammar grades, or even early high-school years, but they may be familiarized with portions of it, and the Grail story is a wonderful one to give them. It should include also the tale of “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin,” as related by Wolfram von Eschenbach and Wagner).
This list is in no way comprehensive, but the wide-awake teacher will find it suggestive of a much longer one, which is as much as the author of a single text-book may hope for.