CONTENTS.

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Two Ways of Telling a Story Jean Ingelow 7
The Death of the Flowers William Cullen Bryant 18
The Great Volcanic Eruption J. T. Van Gestel 20
The Return of Columbus Washington Irving 25
What the Sunbeams do Arabella B. Buckley 29
Horatius at the Bridge Thomas Babington Macaulay 32
How Sir Francis Drake sailed round
the World		 James A. Froude 44
A Brave Rescue and a Rough Ride Richard D. Blackmore 51
The Glory of God From the Psalms of David 65
The Battle of Bannockburn Sir Walter Scott 66
The Soldier's Dream Thomas Campbell 75
Lord Ullin's Daughter Thomas Campbell 76
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 78
The Story of Tempe Wick Frank R. Stockton 83
Life in Norman England W. F. Collier 89
The Romance of the Swan's Nest Elizabeth Barrett Browning 98
A Patriarch of the Olden Time From the "Book of Job" 102
How CortÉs entered the City of
Mexico		 William H. Prescott 104
The Skylark James Hogg 112
The Mystery of the Tadpole George Henry Lewes 113
The Glove and the Lions Leigh Hunt 119
True Growth Ben Jonson 120
The Shipwreck Charles Dickens 121
The Happy Valley Dr. Samuel Johnson 135
The Pass of Killiecrankie W. E. Aytoun 138
Summer Rain Henry Ward Beecher 143
Life in the Backwoods William Dean Howells 146
How they besieged the Town Charles Reade 153
Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott 163
On a Tropical River Charles Kingsley 165
The Flag of Our Country Robert C. Winthrop 173
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,
1571		 Jean Ingelow 175
The Story of Thomas Becket
I. His Life Anonymous 181
II. His Death Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 185
The Pilgrims (1620) Edward Everett 191
The Landing of the Pilgrims Felicia Hemans 195
Patriotism William Cowper 196
The Robin Charles Conrad Abbott FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
ARTIST
Columbus at Barcelona R. Balaca 24
The Defense of the Bridge A. I. Keller 37
Ruins of a Norman Castle From a photograph 90
The Lions Rosa Bonheur 118
The Shipwreck A. Marlon 129
Canterbury Cathedral From a photograph 187
The Departure of the Mayflower A. W. Bayes 194
The Last Prayer—Christian Martyrs
in the Coliseum		 J. L. Gerome 212

PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS.

Washington Irving Title-page
Thomas Babington Macaulay 32
James Anthony Froude 50
Thomas Campbell 76
Frank R. Stockton 83
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 98
William H. Prescott 104
George Henry Lewes 113
Leigh Hunt 119
Charles Dickens 121
Dr. Samuel Johnson 135
Henry Ward Beecher 143
William Dean Howells 146
Charles Reade 153
Charles Kingsley 165
Jean Ingelow 175
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 191
Edward Everett 192
John Tyndall 202
Abraham Lincoln 205
Joseph Rodman Drake 206
Charlotte M. Yonge 208

Acknowledgments are due to the following persons for their courteous permission to use valuable selections from their works: Dr. Charles C. Abbott for the essay on "The Robin"; Mr. William Dean Howells for his sketch of "Life in the Backwoods"; The J. B. Lippincott Company for the selections from Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" and Abbott's "Birdland Echoes"; and Mr. Frank R. Stockton for "The Story of Tempe Wicke."

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