A New and Original Plan For Reading Applied To The World's Best BYCHARLES H. SYLVESTER VOLUME FOURCONTENTSBETTER THAN GOLD ………………………………….. Father Ryan My HEART LEAPS UP……………………………. William Wordsworth THE BAREFOOT BOY ……………………….. John Greenleaf Whittier RAIN ON THE ROOF ………………………………… Coates Kinney CID CAMPEADORELEGY 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 CREATIONTHE 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 DAVIDCHEVY-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 BUNYANTHE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS …………………………….. John Bunyan AWAY …………………………………….. James Whitcomb Riley LITTLE GIFFIN OF TENNESSEELITTLE BREECHES ……………………………………… John Hay THE YARN OF THE "NANCY BELL" ……………………… W. S. Gilbert KATEY'S LETTER ………………………………….. Lady Dufferin THE ARICKARA INDIANS …………………………. Washington Irving ILLUSTRATIONSREBECCA AT THE WINDOW (Color Plate) Louis Grell THE BAREFOOT BOY Iris Weddell White RAIN ON THE ROOF Lucille Enders RODRIGO AND THE LEPER Donn P. Crane MARTIN PELAEZ SLEW A GOOD KNIGHT Donn P. Crane ALVAR FANEZ WENT His WAY TO CASTILL Donn P. Crane THE DEFEAT OF ALMOFALEZ Donn P. Crane THEY WENT OUT FROM VALENCIA AT MIDNIGHT Donn P. Crane HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (Halftone) HOME OF LONGFELLOW AT CAMBRIDGE (Halftone) THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Herbert N. Rudeen HE BOUND HER TO THE MAST G. H. Mitchell RESCUE OF PATRASCHE Holling Clancy NELLO AND PATRASCHE Holling Clancy NELLO LEFT HIS PICTURE AT THE DOOR Holling Clancy ALICE CARY (Halftone) IN THAT DIM OLD FOREST Mildred Lyon ANCHOR Louis Grell HE SLIPPED A GUINEA INTO HER HAND Louis Grell HE WRENCHED THE BAR ASUNDER Louis Grell LEONTINE Louis Grell "WE'VE GOT YOU RATISBON!" Herbert N. Rudeen HAWTHORNE'S WAYSIDE (Halftone) HANDFUL AFTER HANDFUL WAS THROWN IN Mildred Lyon UP CAME TREASURE IN ABUNDANCE Herbert N. Rudeen "FATHER, DO YOU NOT HEAR?" Herbert N. Rudeen THE RIOTERS BROKE INTO THE HOUSE Herbert N. Rudeen NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (Halftone) THE SOLDIERS FIRED Herbert N. Rudeen THE STEED SWEPT ON Herbert N. Rudeen JOAN OF ARC (Halftone) ALFRED ALLOWS THE CAKES TO BURN Louis Grell DAVID MEETS GOLIATH Louis Grell SAUL SOUGHT TO SMITE DAVID Louis Grell JONATHAN SHOOTS THE ARROWS Louis Grell DAVID AND JONATHAN Louis Grell THE MAN RUNNETH ALONE Louis Grell "IS THE YOUNG MAN, ABSALOM, SAFE?" Louis Grell IVANHOE WAS IMPATIENT AT HIS INACTIVITY Louis Grell THE BLACK KNIGHT AT THE GATE OF THE CASTLE Louis Grell ULRICA LOCKS THE DOOR Louis Grell BEFORE HIS BREAST THE FLAMING SHIELD HE BEARS Roy Appel THE WOODEN HORSE Roy Appel LAOCOÖN (Halftone) ULYSSES OUTWITTED THE CYCLOPS Arthur Henderson ULYSSES GAVE THE ARROW WING Arthur Henderson JOHN BUNYAN (Halftone) HE LOOKED NOT BEHIND HIM Donn P. Crane IN THE SLOUGH OR DESPOND Donn P. Crane THE FIGHT WITH APOLLYON Donn P. Crane IN DOUBTING CASTLE Donn P. Crane THE CELESTIAL CITY Donn P. Crane WENT TEAM, LITTLE BREECHES, AND ALL Herbert N. Rudeen "FOR DON'T YOU SEE THAT YOU CAN'T COOK ME?" Herbert N. Rudeen TRADING FOR HORSES R. F. Babcock RETURN OF THE WARRIORS R. F. Babcock |