A NEW AND ORIGINAL
PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE

WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE

585353

Copyright, 1922
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

CONTENTS

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HORATIUS

Lord Macaulay 1

LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER

Thomas Campbell 23

SIR WALTER SCOTT

: Grace E. Sellon 26

THE TOURNAMENT

Sir Walter Scott 38

THE RAINBOW

Thomas Campbell 91

THE LION AND THE MISSIONARY

David Livingstone 93

THE Moss Rose

Translated from Krummacher 98

FOUR DUCKS ON A Pond

William Allingham 98

RAB AND His FRIENDS

John Brown, M.D. 99

ANNIE LAURIE

William Douglas 119

THE BLIND LASSIE

T. C. Latto 120

BOYHOOD.

Washington Allston 122

SWEET AND Low

Alfred Tennyson 122

CHILDHOOD

Donald G. Mitchell 124

THE BUGLE SONG

Alfred Tennyson 133

THE IMITATION OF CHRIST

Thomas à Kem pis 134

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB

Lord Byron 141

RUTH.

143

THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR

Lord Byron 153

SOHRAB AND RUSTEM

157

SOARAB AND RUSTUM

Matthew Arnold 173

THE POET AND THE PEASANT

Emile Sourestre 206

John Howard PAYNE AND Home, Sweet Home

221

AULD LANG SYNE

Robert Burns 228

HOME TaeY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD

Alfred Tennyson 231

CHARLES DICKENS .

232

A CARISTMAS CAROL

Charles Dickens 244

CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME

Sir Walter Scott 356

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD

Thomas Gray 360

THE SHIPWRECK

Robert Louis Stevenson 371

ELEPHANT HUNTING

Roualeyn Gordon Cumming 385

SOME CLEVER MONKEYS

Thomas Belt 402

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC

Benjamin Franklin 407

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK

422

THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES

George Rogers Clark 428

THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK

Edgar Allan Poe 453

THE MODERN BELLE.

Stark 463

Widow MACHREE

Samuel Lover 464
LIMESTONE BROTH

The KNOCK-OUT.

THE COUNTRY SQUIRE

To My INFANT SON

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Gerald Griffin 467

Davy Crockett 471

Thomas Yriarte 474

Thomas Hood 478

PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES.

481

For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of

Volume X