He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce the poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd Osbourne for permission to reproduce the selection from the works of Robert Louis Stevenson; and to J. F. Edgar for permission to reproduce one of Sir James D. Edgar's poems.

He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co., Limited, for special permission, to reproduce selections from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, and Flora Annie Steel; to Smith, Elder & Co., for the extract from F. T. Bullen's "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to Elkin Mathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from "The Island Race"; to Sampson Low, Marston & Company for the extract from R. D. Blackmore's "Lorna Doone"; to Thomas Nelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier's "History of the British Empire"; to Chatto and Windus for the extract from E. B. Osborn's "Greater Canada"; to Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Chase" from Charles Dudley Warner's "A-Hunting of the Deer," "Mary Elizabeth" by Mrs. Phelps Ward, and the poems by Celia Thaxter and by Richard Watson Gilder; to The Century Company for Jacob A. Riis' "The Story of a Fire" from "The Century Magazine"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for the selections from Charles G. D. Roberts' works; to The Westminster Co., Limited, for the extract from "Ralph Connor's" "The Man from Glengarry."

The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others, not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to include in this Reader so many copyright selections.

Toronto, May, 1909.

CONTENTS

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[To-day]Thomas Carlyle1
[Fortune and the Beggar]Ivan Kirloff2
[The Lark and the Rook]Unknown4
[The Pickwick Club on the Ice]Charles Dickens6
[Tubal Cain]Charles Mackay11
[Professor Frog's Lecture]M. A. L. Lane14
[A Song for April]Charles G. D. Roberts25
[How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune]P. J. Stahl26
[The Battle of Blenheim]Robert Southey31
[The Ride for Life]"Ralph Connor"34
[Iagoo, the Boaster]Henry W. Longfellow39
[The Story of a Fire]Jacob A. Riis40
[The Quest]Eudora S. Bumstead43
[The Jackal and the Partridge]Flora Annie Steel44
[Hide and Seek]Henry Van Dyke50
[The Burning of the "Goliath"]Dean Stanley52
[Hearts of Oak]David Garrick55
[A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea]Allan Cunningham56
[The Talents]Bible57
[A Farewell]Charles Kingsley59
[An Apple Orchard in the Spring]William Martin60
[The Bluejay]"Mark Twain"61
[A Canadian Camping Song]Sir James David Edgar65
[The Argonauts]John Waugh66
[The Minstrel-Boy]Thomas Moore71
[Mary Elizabeth]Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward72
[The Frost]Hannah Flagg Gould83
[Corn-fields]Mary Howitt84
[South-West Wind, Esq.]John Ruskin86
[The Meeting of the Waters]Thomas Moore97
[Love]Bible98
[The Robin's Song]Unknown99
[Work or Play]"Mark Twain"100
[Burial of Sir John Moore]Charles Wolfe106
[The Whistle]Benjamin Franklin108
[A Canadian Boat Song]Thomas Moore109
[The Little Hero of Haarlem]Sharpe's London Magazine110
[Father William]"Lewis Carroll"115
[David and Goliath]Bible117
[Charge of the Light Brigade]Alfred, Lord Tennyson123
[Maggie Tulliver]George Eliot125
[The Corn Song]John G. Whittier134
[Sports in Norman England]William Fitzstephen136
[A Song of Canada]Robert Reid140
[A Mad Tea Party]"Lewis Carroll"142
[The Slave's Dream]Henry W. Longfellow149
[The Chase]Charles Dudley Warner152
[The Inchcape Rock]Robert Southey158
[A Rough Ride]Richard D. Blackmore161
[The Arab and His Steed]The Honourable Mrs. Norton169
[The Poet's Song]Alfred, Lord Tennyson173
[Adventure with a Whale]Frank T. Bullen174
[The Maple]H. F. Darnell179
[Damon and Pythias]Charlotte M. Yonge181
[The Wreck of the Orpheus]C. A. L.184
[The Tide River]Charles Kingsley185
[Wisdom the Supreme Prize]Bible187
[The Orchard]Jean Blewett188
[Inspired by the Snow]Samuel T. Wood189
[The Squirrel]William Cowper192
[Soldier, Rest]Sir Walter Scott192
[Fishing]Thomas Hughes193
[The Fountain]James Russell Lowell199
[Break, Break, Break]Alfred, Lord Tennyson201
[The Bed of Procrustes]Charles Kingsley202
["Bob White"]George Cooper208
[Radisson and the Indians]Beckles Willson209
[The Brook]Alfred, Lord Tennyson212
["Do Seek Their Meat From God"]Charles G. D. Roberts215
[A Song of the Sea]"Barry Cornwall"222
[Little Daffydowndilly]Nathaniel Hawthorne223
[The Sandpiper]Celia Thaxter234
[From "The Sermon on the Mount"]Bible236
[The Legend of Saint Christopher]Helen Hunt Jackson237
[William Tell and His Son]Chamber's "Tracts"241
[A Midsummer Song]Richard Watson Gilder244
[The Relief of Lucknow]"Letter from an officer's wife"246
[The Song in Camp]Bayard Taylor250
[Afterglow]William Wilfred Campbell252
[King Richard and Saladin]Sir Walter Scott253
[England's Dead]Felicia Hemans258
[Hohenlinden]Thomas Campbell260
[The Dream of the Oak Tree]Hans Christian Andersen262
[A Prayer]Robert Louis Stevenson266
[The Death of the Flowers]William Cullen Bryant267
['Tis the Last Rose of Summer]Thomas Moore269
[A Roman's Honour]Charlotte M. Yonge270
[The Fighting Téméraire]Henry Newbolt273
[Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills]Miguel de Cervantes275
[The Romance of the Swan's Nest]Elizabeth Barrett Browning281
[Moonlight Sonata]Unknown285
[The Red-Winged Blackbird]Ethelwyn Wetherald290
[To the Cuckoo]John Logan291
[The Story of a Stone]D. B.293
[The Snow-Storm]John G. Whittier298
[The Heroine of Verchères]Francis Parkman301
[Jacques Cartier]Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee307
[Ants and Their Slaves]Jules Michelet310
[Lead, Kindly Light]John Henry Newman315
[The Jolly Sandboys]Charles Dickens316
[The Gladness of Nature]William Cullen Bryant324
[Old English Life]William F. Collier325
[Puck's Song]Rudyard Kipling330
[The Battle of Queenston Heights]Unknown332
[The Bugle Song]Alfred, Lord Tennyson337
[Charity]Bible338
[A Christmas Carol]James Russell Lowell339
[The Barren Lands]E. B. Osborn341
[A Spring Morning]William Wordsworth345
[Crossing the Bar]Alfred, Lord Tennyson346

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