CONTENTS.

(The Titles of the Selections in Poetry are printed in Italics.)

Number.Title.Author.Page.
I.[The White Ship (Illustrated)]Dickens[11]
II.[Casabianca]Hemans, Mrs.[16]
III.[The Giraffe or Camelopard (Illus.)]Barnes’ IV.[18]
IV.[The Mountain and the Squirrel]Emerson[20]
V.[The Pet Lamb (Illustrated)]Wordsworth[21]
VI.[The Camel (Illustrated)][24]
VII.[Lucy Gray (Illustrated)]Wordsworth[27]
VIII.[The Emperor and the Major (Illus.)]Butler’s IV.[30]
IX.[Farmer John]Trowbridge[33]
X.[The Poor Little Match Girl]Andersen[36]
XI.[The Sands O’ Dee (Illustrated)]Kingsley[38]
XII.[The Rhinoceros (Illustrated)]Barnes’ IV.[40]
XIII.[The Old Arm-Chair (Illustrated)]Cook, Eliza[44]
XIV.[Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel]Hunt[45]
XV.[Prince Arthur]Dickens[46]
XVI.[A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea]Cunningham[51]
XVII.[We are Seven (Illustrated)]Wordsworth[52]
XVIII.[The Hippopotamus (Illustrated)]Battersea III.[55]
XIX.[A Bright Boy]Blackie[58]
XX.[After Blenheim (Illustrated)]Southey[60]
XXI.[The Black Douglas (Illustrated)]Battersea IV.[63]
XXII.[Bruce and the Spider (Illustrated)]Cook, Eliza[68]
XXIII.[The Farmer and the Fox]Froude[71]
XXIV.[A Canadian Boat Song]Moore[73]
XXV.[The Wreck of the Hesperus]Longfellow[74]
XXVI.[Holland (Illustrated)]Dodge, Mrs.[78]
XXVII.[Evening Hymn]Keble[81]
XXVIII.[Psalm XXIII.][82]
XXIX.[The Heroic Serf (Illustrated)]Champneys[82]
XXX.[There’s a Good Time Coming]Mackay[86]
XXXI.[John Brown]Mackay[88]
XXXII.[The Otter (Illustrated)]Butler’s IV.[90]
XXXIII.[The Ivy Green (Illustrated)]Dickens[93]
XXXIV.[The Sea]Procter[94]
XXXV.[Ho! Breakers on the Weather Bow]Swain[96]
XXXVI.[A Child’s Dream of a Star]Dickens[97]
XXXVII.[Hannah Binding Shoes (Illustrated)]Larcom, Lucy[101]
XXXVIII.[Jack in the Pulpit (Illustrated)]Whittier[103]
XXXIX.[The Beaver (Illustrated)]Barnes’ III.[106]
XL.[The Angel’s Whisper]Lover[109]
XLI.[The Rapid]Sangster[110]
XLII.[A Narrow Escape (Illustrated)]Ill. English IV.[111]
XLIII.[The Fairies of Caldon-Low (Illus.)]Howitt, Mrs.[115]
XLIV.[Volcanoes (Illustrated)]Barnes’ IV.[119]
XLV.[A Small Catechism]McGee[122]
XLVI.[Curious Birds’ Nests (Illustrated)]Butler’s IV.[123]
XLVII.[Lord Ullin’s Daughter (Illustrated)]Campbell[127]
XLVIII.[To An Early Primrose]White[129]
XLIX.[The Whistle]Franklin[130]
L.[Bugle Song (Illustrated)]Tennyson[132]
LI.[The Inchcape Rock (Illustrated)]Southey[133]
LII.[The Flax]Andersen[136]
LIII.[The French at Ratisbon (Illustrated)]Browning[141]
LIV.[Egypt and Its Ruins (Illustrated)][143]
LV.[To My Mother]White[148]
LVI.[Zlobane]Gustafson, Mrs.[149]
LVII.[The Ruby-Throated Humming-Bird]Audubon[152]
LVIII.[Trust in God and Do the Right]Macleod[155]
LIX.[Somebody’s Darling]Lacoste, Marie[156]
LX.[Song from “The Princess”]Tennyson[157]
LXI.[Ants and Their Slaves]Michelet[158]
LXII.[The Gray Swan (Illustrated)]Cary, Alice[162]
LXIII.[The Capture of a Whale]Cooper[165]
LXIV.[The Village Blacksmith (Illustrated)]Longfellow[171]
LXV.[The Monster of the Nile]Baker[173]
LXVI.[Prayer]Montgomery[177]
LXVII.[The Thermometer]Ill. English IV.[179]
LXVIII.[Golden Deeds][182]
LXIX.[By Cool Siloam’s Shady Rill]Heber[187]
LXX.[Age of Trees (Illustrated)]Butler’s IV.[188]
LXXI.[Rock Me to Sleep]Allen, Mrs.[192]
LXXII.[Heat:—Conduction and Radiation]Ill. English IV.[194]
LXXIII.[When All Thy Mercies, O my God]Addison[200]
LXXIV.[Canadian Trees (First Reading—Illustrated)]Brown[202]
LXXV.[Bingen on the Rhine]Norton, Hon. Mrs.[207]
LXXVI.[Canadian Trees (Second Reading)]Brown[210]
LXXVII.[Burial of Sir John Moore]Wolfe[214]
LXXVIII.[The Golden Touch (First Reading—Illustrated)]Hawthorne[216]
LXXIX.[The Road to the Trenches (Illustrated)]Lushington[221]
LXXX.[The Root]Figuier[223]
LXXXI.[The Waterfowl (Illustrated)]Bryant[227]
LXXXII.[Shapes of Leaves (First Reading—Illustrated)]Frankenstein[229]
LXXXIII.[The Brook (Illustrated)]Tennyson[233]
LXXXIV.[Shapes of Leaves (Second Reading—Illustrated)]Frankenstein[235]
LXXXV.[The Burial of Moses]Alexander, Mrs.[240]
LXXXVI.[The Golden Touch (Second Reading)]Hawthorne[243]
LXXXVII.[The May Queen (First Reading—Illustrated)]Tennyson[250]
LXXXVIII.[The Flower][252]
LXXXIX.[The May Queen (Second Reading)]Tennyson[255]
XC.[The Fruit (Illustrated)]Frankenstein[257]
XCI.[The May Queen (Third Reading—Illustrated)]Tennyson[261]
XCII.[The Golden Touch (Third Reading—Illustrated)]Hawthorne[264]
XCIII.[John Gilpin (Illustrated)]Cowper[272]

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Name.Page.
Addison, Joseph[200]
Alexander, Cecil Frances[240]
Allen, Elizabeth Akers[192]
Andersen, Hans Christian[36], [136]
Audubon, John James[152]
Baker, Sir Samuel White[173]
Blackie, John Stuart[58]
Brown, James[202], [210]
Browning, Robert[141]
Bryant, William Cullen[227]
Campbell, Thomas[127]
Cary, Alice[162]
Cook, Eliza[44], [68]
Cooper, James Fenimore[165]
Cowper, William[272]
Cunningham, Allan[51]
Dickens, Charles[11], [46], [93], [97]
Dodge, Mary Mapes[78]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo[20]
Figuier, Louis[223]
Frankenstein, Gustavus[229], [235], [257]
Franklin, Benjamin[130]
Froude, James Anthony[71]
Gustafson, Zadel Barnes[149]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel[216], [243], [264]
Heber, Reginald[187]
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea[16]
Howitt, Mary[115]
Hunt, Leigh[45]
Keble, John[81]
Kingsley, Charles[38]
Lacoste, Marie[156]
Larcom, Lucy[101]
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth[74], [171]
Lover, Samuel[109]
Lushington, Henry[221]
Mackay, Charles[86], [88]
Macleod, Norman[155]
Michelet, Jules[158]
Montgomery, James[177]
Moore, Thomas[73]
McGee, Thomas D’Arcy[122]
Norton, Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah[207]
Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall)[94]
Sangster, Charles[110]
Southey, Robert[60], [133]
Swain, Charles[96]
Tennyson, Alfred (Lord Tennyson)[132], [157], [233], [250], [255], [261]
Trowbridge, John Townsend[33]
White, Henry Kirke[129], [148]
Whittier, John Greenleaf[103]
Wolfe, Charles[214]
Wordsworth, William[21], [27], [52]

ORTHOËPY.