Introductory material
Reading edition
BETTER THAN GOLD ………………………………….. Father Ryan
My HEART LEAPS UP……………………………. William Wordsworth
THE BAREFOOT BOY ……………………….. John Greenleaf Whittier
RAIN ON THE ROOF ………………………………… Coates Kinney
CID CAMPEADOR
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG ………………… Oliver Goldsmith
MOTHER'S WAY ……………………………………… Father Ryan
SONG OF THE BROOK ……………………………… Alfred Tennyson
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ……………………… Grace E. Sellon
FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS ………………….. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To H. W. L. ………………………………. James Russell Lowell
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH ……………….. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS …………….. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A DOG OF FLANDERS …………………………… Louise de la Ramee
ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY …………………………….. Anna McCaleb
NEARER HOME ………………………………………. Phoebe Cary
PICTURES OF MEMORY …………………………………. Alice Cary
THE ESCAPE FROM PRISON ……………………… Sir Samuel W. Baker
STORIES OF THE CREATION
THE DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN …………………… Cardinal Newman
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER ……………………………. Alexander Pope
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP …………………….. Robert Browning
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ……………………………. Grace E. Sellon
THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS……………………… Nathaniel Hawthorne
LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND .. Felicia Browne Hemans
THE SUNKEN TREASURE ………………………… Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE HUTCHINSON MOB …………………………. Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE BOSTON MASSACRE ………………………… Nathaniel Hawthorne
SHERIDAN'S RIDE …………………………… Thomas Buchanan Read
JOAN OF ARC …………………………………. Thomas de Quincey
PANCRATIUS …………………………………… Cardinal Wiseman
ALFRED THE GREAT ………………………………. Charles Dickens
THE BURIAL OF MOSES …………………….. Cecil Frances Alexander
BERNARDO DEL CARPIO …………………………….. Felicia Hemans
DAVID
CHEVY-CHASE ……………………………………. Richard Sheale
THE ATTACK ON THE CASTLE ………………………. Sir Walter Scott
THE DEATH OF HECTOR …………………………. From Homer's Iliad
THE WOODEN HORSE ………………………….. From Vergil's Aeneid
JOHN BUNYAN
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS …………………………….. John Bunyan
AWAY …………………………………….. James Whitcomb Riley
LITTLE GIFFIN OF TENNESSEE
LITTLE BREECHES ……………………………………… John Hay
THE YARN OF THE "NANCY BELL" ……………………… W. S. Gilbert
KATEY'S LETTER ………………………………….. Lady Dufferin
THE ARICKARA INDIANS …………………………. Washington Irving