Eighth Reader :: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

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Brother and Sister	George Eliot	11
My Last Day at Salem House	Charles Dickens	22
The Departure from Miss Pinkerton's	W. M. Thackeray	27
Two Gems from Browning:
I. Incident of the French Camp	Robert Browning	36
II. Dog Tray	Robert Browning	41
The Discovery of America	Washington Irving	43
The Glove and the Lions	Leigh Hunt	48
St. Francis, the Gentle	William Canton	51
The Sermon of St. Francis	Henry W. Longfellow	54
In the Woods	John Burroughs	56
Bees and Flowers	John Burroughs	59
Song of the River	Abram J. Ryan	64
Song of the Chattahoochee	Sidney Lanier	66
War and Peace:
I. War as the Mother of Valor and Civilization	Andrew Carnegie	68
II. Friendship among Nations	Victor Hugo	71
III. Soldier, Rest	Sir Walter Scott	74
IV. The Soldier's Dream	Thomas Campbell	75
V. How Sleep the Brave?	William Collins	76
Early Times in New York	Washington Irving	77
A Winter Evening in Old New England	J. G. Whittier	82
The Old-fashioned Thanksgiving	Donald G. Mitchell	84
A Thanksgiving	Robert Herrick	92
First Days at Wakefield	Oliver Goldsmith	94
Doubting Castle	John Bunyan	100
Shooting with the Longbow	Sir Walter Scott	108
A Christmas Hymn	Alfred Domett	117
Christmas Eve at Fezziwig's	Charles Dickens	120
The Christmas Holly	Eliza Cook	124
The New Year's Dinner Party	Charles Lamb	125
The Town Pump	Nathaniel Hawthorne	128
Come up from the Fields, Father	Walt Whitman	135
The Address at Gettysburg	Abraham Lincoln	139
Ode to the Confederate Dead	Henry Timrod	140
The Chariot Race	From Sophocles	141
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