Young Folks must, and will, have something to read—something to feed the mind as well as the body. It therefore becomes a very important duty of parents to make choice of such books as are pure in tone and elevating in sentiment; and it follows also, as night follows day, that if parents fail or neglect this duty the young folks themselves will find something to read, nor will they be so careful in their selections.
In GOLDEN GRAIN will be found a work in every respect worthy of a place in the Family Circle. Its pages lend inspiration to fight life's battles nobly. Those who go out from a home with noble impulses, pure motives, and true hearts will bear the burden of Earth's cares, duties and disappointments with patience and resignation, having
"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive and a hand to execute."
| Harvest Song | John G. Whittier | [13] |
| Minute Men of Liberty | George William Curtis | [14] |
| Kind Hearts | [16] | |
| The Children's Hour | Henry W. Longfellow | [17] |
| The Brook | Alfred Tennyson | [21] |
| Eulogy on Garfield | James G. Blaine | [23] |
| Gems from James A. Garfield | [24] | |
| At the Fireside | John D. Long | [25] |
| The Frost Spirit | John G. Whittier | [26] |
| The Arrow and the Song | Henry W. Longfellow | [29] |
| The Bridge | Henry W. Longfellow | [31] |
| The Responsive Chord | J. William Jones | [34] |
| Grandma's Angel | Sidney Dayre | [35] |
| Cold, Bitter Cold | Hans Christian Andersen | [37] |
| Nobody's Child | Phila H. Case | [42] |
| Snow-White and Rosy-Red | Friederich Grimm | [45] |
| The Song of the Thrush | Lucy Larcom | [58] |
| The Fox and the Geese | [60] | |
| Count That Day Lost | [61] | |
| The Children in the Moon | [62] | |
| A Night in a Norwegian Forest | P. Chr. Asbjornsen | [65] |
| Two Little Kittens | [88] | |
| Labor of Authorship | [90] | |
| She Was Somebody's Mother | [92] | |
| Dot Lambs What Mary Haf Got | [94] | |
| The Mills of God | Henry W. Longfellow | [95] |
| Bob Cratchit's Christmas | Charles Dickens | [96] |
| Full Many a Gem | Thomas Gray | [103] |
| A Snug Little Island | [104] | |
| Don't Crowd | Charles Dickens | [111] |
| The Boys | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [112] |
| Quarrel Between | ||
| Mountain and Squirrel | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [114] |
| For Fathers Sake | [116] | |
| Backbone | [130] | |
| A Dog Sheep-Stealer | [132] | |
| The Best Answer to Calumny | George Washington | [133] |
| If We Knew | Phœbe Cary | [134] |
| Holiday Song | D. Bethune Duffield | [137] |
| A Queer Duckling | Hans Christian Andersen | [138] |
| Truth | James Russell Lowell | [156] |
| The Clearin' | [157] | |
| Prince Willful's Three Lessons | J. T. Choate | [161] |
| Miss Edith Helps Things Along | F. Bret Harte | [170] |
| The Giant Who Had No Heart | P. Chr. Asbjornsen | [173] |
| Beauty Everywhere | W. L. Smith | [185] |
| Bread on the Waters | George L. Catlin | [186] |
| The Use of Books | [189] | |
| The Spring | [190] | |
| Gem from "Lalla Rookh" | Thomas Moore | [190] |
| How Bayard Shot the Bear | J. T. Choate | [191] |
| How We Live | Phillip James Bailey | [195] |
| New Year's Eve | Alfred Tennyson | [197] |
| East of the Sun and | ||
| West of the Moon | P. Chr. Asbjornsen | [199] |
| Do; Not Dream | Charles Kingsley | [216] |
| The Baby in the Home | George MacDonald | [217] |
| Saturday Afternoon | N. P. Willis | [220] |
| The King of the Night | Barry Cornwall | [222] |
| A 'Rithmetic Lesson | Phillip James Bailey | [225] |
| Press on | [227] | |
| Fairies or Fireflies | Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt | [228] |
| Speak No Ill | [229] | |
| The Ambitious Twig | Lucie Cobbe | [230] |
| Universal Law | Samuel Rogers | [233] |
| The Turk and the Fiddler | Friederich Grimm | [234] |
| Sober Second Thought | Martin Van Buren | [241] |
| Little Lottie's Grievance | Paul H. Hayne | [242] |
| There is no Death | Lord Lytton | [245] |
| The Siege of Troy | J. C. Chilton | [248] |
| Think for Thyself | Wilson | [251] |
| George Nidiver | F. Brete Hart | [252] |
| March and the Boys | Mary D. Brine | [255] |
| The Crusades | J. C. Chilton | [259] |
| Pride of Native Land | Sir Walter Scott | [262] |
| The Children's Crusade | J. C. Chilton | [263] |
| The Soldier's Reprieve | Rose Hartwick Thorpe | [265] |
| The Maid of Orleans | J. C. Chilton | [269] |
| 'Tis Only Noble to be Good | Alfred Tennyson | [272] |
| A Bird's Story | M. E. B. | [274] |
| The Wolf and the | ||
| Seven Kids | Freiderich Grimm | [276] |
| There is a Day of Sunny Rest | William Cullen Bryant | [280] |
| Birdie and Baby | Alfred Tennyson | [281] |
| The Influence of Books | Edwin P. Whipple | [282] |
| Rock Me to Sleep | Elizabeth Akers | [283] |
| Heroism | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [285] |
| Politeness | [285] | |
| Measuring the Baby | Emma Alice Brown | [286] |
| Pearl of Thought | Johann Chr. F. Schiller | [288] |
| The Noble Roman | John G. Saxe | [288] |
| The Engineer's Story | [289] | |
| As He Saw Himself | Sir Isaac Newton | [293] |
| The Random Shaft | Sir Walter Scott | [293] |
| Two Brave Boys | Pritt's "Border Life" | [294] |
| Undoubted Evidence | Rev. Laurence Stern | [298] |
| The Flight of Years | George D. Prentice | [299] |
| Airy Nothings | William Shakespeare | [304] |