LITTLE CLASSIC SERIES.
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A series of exquisitely printed little volumes, in flexible binding and red edges. Any volume of "The Little Classics." Price, per volume 1.00
This is a series of handy volumes, containing many of the choicest short Stories, Sketches and Poems in English Literature. The following list presents the contents of each volume, viz.:—
1.—EXILE.
Ethan BrandHawthorne
The Swans of LirGerald Griffin
A Night in a Workhouse,Jas. Greenwood
The Outcasts of Poker Fiat,Bret Harte
The Man without a CountryHale
Flight of a Tartar TribeDeQuincey
2.—INTELLECT.
The House and the BrainBulwer
L'Outre MortHarriet Prescott Spofford
The Fall of the House of UsherPoe
Chops, the DwarfDickens
WakefieldHawthorne
Murder considered as one of the Fine ArtsDeQuincey
The Captain's Story,Rebecca Harding Davis
3.—TRAGEDY.
The Murders in Rue MorguePoe
The Lauson TragedyDeForest
The Iron ShroudWm. Mudford
The Bell TowerHerman Melville
The Kathayan SlaveMrs. Judson
The Story of La Roche,Henry Mackenzie
The Vision of Sudden DeathDeQuincey
4.—LIFE.
Rab and his FriendsDr. John Brown
A Romance of Real LifeW. D. Howells
The Luck of Roaring CampBret Harte
Jerry Jarvis's WigR. H. Barham
Beauty and the BeastWillis
David SwanHawthorne
DreamthorpAlexander Smith
A Bachelor's ReverieD. G. Mitchell
The Grammar of LifeB. F. Taylor
My ChateauxG. W. Curtis
Dream ChildrenCharles Lamb
The Man in the ReservoirC. F. Hoffman
Westminster AbbeyAddison
The PuritansMacaulay
GettysburgAbraham Lincoln
5.—LAUGHTER.
A Christmas CarolDickens
The Haunted CrustKatherine Saunders
A Dissertation upon Roast PigLamb
The Total Depravity of Inanimate ThingsMrs. E. A. Walker
The Skeleton in the ClosetHale
Sandy Wood's SepulchreHugh Miller
A Visit to the Asylum for Decayed PunstersHolmes
Mr. Tibbot O'Leary the Curious,Gerald Griffin
Neal MaloneWilliam Carleton
6.—LOVE.
Love and SkatesTheodore Winthrop
The Maid of MalinesBulwer
The Story of RuthFrom the Bible
The Rise of IskanderDisraeli
7.—ROMANCE.
IrisHolmes
The RosicrucianMiss Mulock
The South Breaker,Harriet Prescott Spofford
The Snow StormChristopher North
The King of the Peak,Allan Cunningham
8.—MYSTERY.
The GhostW. D. O'Connor
The Four-Fifteen Express,Amelia B. Edwards
The Signal ManDickens
The Haunted ShipCunningham
A Raft that no Man Made,Robt. T. S. Lowell
The Invisible Princess,Francis O'Connor
The Advocate's Wedding Day,Catherine Crowe
The BirthmarkHawthorne
9.—COMEDY.
Barney O'Reirdon, the NavigatorLover
Hadad-Ben-Ahab, the TravellerJohn Galt
Bluebeard's GhostThackeray
The Picnic PartyHorace Smith
Father Tom and the PopeSamuel Ferguson
John DarbyshireWilliam Howitt
The GridironLover
The Box TunnelReade
10.—CHILDHOOD.
A Dog of FlandersOuida
The King of the Golden RiverRuskin
The Lady of ShalottMiss Phelps
Marjorie FlemingJohn Brown
Little JakeyMrs. S. H. DeKroyft
The Lost ChildHenry Kingsley
Goody Gracious! and the Forget-me-NotJohn Neal
A Faded Leaf of History,Rebecca Harding Davis
A Child's Dream of a StarDickens
11.—HEROISM.
Little Briggs and IFitz-Hugh Ludlow
RayHarriet Prescott Spofford
Three November DaysB. F. Taylor
The Forty-Seven RoninsA. B. Mitford
A Chance ChildIsabella Mayo
A Leaf in the StormOuida
12.—FORTUNE.
The Gold BugPoe
The Fairy FinderLover
Murad the UnluckyMaria Edgeworth
The Children of the PublicHale
The Rival DreamersJohn Banim
The Three-fold DestinyHawthorne
13.—NARRATIVE POEMS.
The Deserted VillageGoldsmith
The Ancient MarinerColeridge
The Prisoner of ChillonByron
Bingen on the RhineMrs. Norton
O'Connor's ChildCampbell
KilmenyHogg
The Dream of Eugene AramHood
Lady BarbaraAlexander Smith
The Sensitive PlantShelley
The Eve of St. AgnesKeats
Paradise and the PeriMoore
The RavenPoe
The Skeleton in ArmorLongfellow
The Haunted HouseHood
The Writing on the ImageMorris
Tam O'ShanterBurns
The Forging of the AnchorSamuel Ferguson
Morte D'ArthurTennyson
HoratiusMacaulay
14.—LYRICAL POEMS.
Locksley HallTennyson
My Lost YouthLongfellow
Intimations of ImmortalityWordsworth
Ode to HappinessLowell
L'Allegro and Il PenserosoMilton
Elegy in a Country ChurchyardGray
The Bridge of SighsHood
The ProblemEmerson
The PassionsCollins
The Bonnets of Bonnie DundeeScott
At Port RoyalWhittier
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to AixBrowning
Ode on the Duke of WellingtonTennyson
Commemoration OdeLowell
And many other Poems.
15.—MINOR POEMS.
The Chambered NautilusHolmes
The Children's HourLongfellow
The Courtin'Lowell
Evelyn HopeBrowning
Highland MaryBurns
Kubla KhanColeridge
My ChildPierpont
My PsalmWhittier
Oh? Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? (President Lincoln's favourite Poem.)
She was a Phantom of D lightWordsworth
ThanatopsisBryant
The Three FishersKingsley
Toujours AmourStedman
A Woman's QuestionAdelaide Anne Proctor
Bugle SongTennyson
The Age of WisdomThackeray
I Remember, I RememberHood
The Ivy GreenDickens
A LamentShelley
Maid of AthensByron
Night and DeathBlanco White
The Old Man's IdylRichard Realf
A Petition to TimeBarry Cornwall
The SkylarkJames Hogg
Philip, My KingMiss Mulock
Tom BowlingDibdin
VirtueGeorge Herbert
And numerous other poems.
16.—AUTHORS.
Containing Brief Biographies of all the Authors from whose writings the fifteen preceding volumes of "Little Classics" have been taken. With complete Index.
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