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CXXI. Washington ..

. Thomas Jefferson. 367

CXXII, The Necessity of Government. ....John C. Calhoun. 370

CXXIII. The Way to Wealth....

. Benjamin Franklin. 371

CXXIV. The Reaper and the Flowers.. .H. W. Longfellow. 377

CXXV. The Vision of Mirza .

.Joseph Addison. 379

CXXVI. The Last Man .....

. Thomas Campbell. 385

CXXVII. Good Manners at the Table

.J. W. Phelps. 387

CXXVIII. New Year's Eve .....

Alfred Tennyson. 392

CXXIX, Migration to Kentucky.

.J. J. Audubon. 393

CXXX. The Problem .....

R. W. Emerson. 397

CXXXI. The Greatness of Napoleon

W. E. Channing. 400

CXXXII. The Desert....

. Anna C. Brackett. 402

CXXXIII. Candles not used by the Ancients. . Thomas De Quincey. 404

CXXXIV. Rienzi's Address to the Romans.. .Mary R. Mitford. 407

CXXXV. Liberty or Death !.

.Patrick Henry. 409

CXXXVI. The Skylark....

.Percy Bysshe Shelley. 413

CXXXVII. Fossil Poetry.

.R. C. Trench. 416

CXXXVIII. L'Allegro

.John Milton. 419

CXXXIX. Old Age....

Theodore Parker. 422

CXL. Il Penseroso

.John Milton. 426

CXLI. Garden Plants..

.A. B. Alcott. 431

CXLII. The Ancient Mariner...

S. T. Coleridge. 434

CXLIII. Carlyle's Definition of Man.

Thomas Carlyle. 444

CXLIV. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.

Alfred Tennyson. 447

CXLV. Exequies of Mignon.

Goethe (Thomas Carlyle's translation). 451

CXLVI. The Closing Scene

T. B. Read. 456

APPENDIX. Words Difficult to Spell......

461

ооооооос сорое • o o o o o oo

ANDREW J. RICKOFF, A. M.,
SUPERINTENDENT OF INSTRUCTION, CLEVELAND, OHIO.

MARK BAILEY, A. M.,
INSTRUCTOR IN BLOCUTION, YALE COLLEGE.

NEW YORK ::: CINCINNATI ::: CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF
GINN & COMPANY
MARCH 17, 1927

COPYRIGHT, 1878, 1879,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1902.

BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.

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I. The House of Usher.

.Edgar A. Poe.
II. The Haunted Palace.

Edgar A. Poe.
III. Intelligent Roading..

... Mark Bailey.
IV. Winter

William Shakespeare.
V. Marmion and Douglas..

. Sir Walter Scott. VI. Ascent of Mount Ktaadn Henry D. Thoreau. VII. Virtue.

..George Herbert.
VIII. Rules of Behavior.

.George Washington.
IX. Morning Sounds

.James Beattie.
X. The Hermit ....

.James Beattie.
XI. The Survivors of the Battle of Bunker Hill

Daniel Webster.
XII. Ode -- How sleep the Brave !. William Collins.
XIII. The Death of Le Fevre

. Laurence Sterne. XIV. How to render Matter-of-fact and Earnest Ideas

Mark Bailey. XV. The Battle of Hastings...

.Charles Dickens. XVI. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

Oliver Goldsmith. XVII. The Nightingale

.S. H. Peabody. XVIII. Dotheboys Hall.

.Charles Dickens. XIX. An April Day....... . Caroline A. B. Southey. XX. God's Dominion and Man's Dependence.

Psalms XXIV. and XC. XXI. The Destruction of Sennacherib..., ..Lord Byron. XXII. How to render Noble Ideas

. Mark. Bailey. XXIII. Earthquakes and Volcanoes. . Edward Hitchcock. XXIV. Sunday

George Herbert.