8 lin:' ^■'^m mm ui\iTUwuw\m m iiir III' UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES GIFT OF Dr . ERNEST C . MOORE "-^^^ddrvi^c^ . THE POCKET UNIVERSITY THE POCKET UNIVERSITY VOLUME XXIII THE GUIDE TO READING EDITED BY DR. LYMAN ARBOTT, ASA DON DICKINSON AND OTHERS P U h L I S H K D K O li NELSO.N DOUBLEDAY, INC. BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY f;ARDFl\(:irV NF, W ^OHK 19 2 1 COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAT, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I'HINTKI) IN THK INITRD STATES AT TIIK ( (M NTItV I.IFK I'BF.SS, f^AKDKN CITVv N. Y. * « ,*» .• •• • % • • • • ••« ,* , * • • • - ■ . ■ . . • . . . . • • • CONTENTS rAGB Books for Study and Reading By Lyman Abbott v 3 3 The Purpose of Reading By John Macy 19 How TO Get the Best Out of Books *l By Richard LeGallienne 37 3 The Guide to Daily Reading '^^ By Asa Don Dickinson ^51 7^ General Index of Authors 135 General Index of Titles 169 2mi,m THE POCKET UNIVERSITY Books for Study and Reading By LYMAN ABBOTT THE POCKET UNIVERSITY Books for Study and Reading By LYMAN ABBOTT There are three services which books may render in the home: they may be ornaments, tools, or friends. I was told a few years ago the following story which is worth retelling as an illustration of the use of books as ornaments. A millionaire who had one house in the city, one in the mountains, and one in the South, wished to build a fourth house on the seashore. A house ought to have a library. Therefore this new house was to have a library. When the house was finished he found the library shelves had been made so shallow that they v.-ould not take books of an ordinary size. His architect proposed to change the bookshelves. The millionaire did not wish the change made, but told his architect to buy fine bindings of classical books and glue them into the shelves. The architect on making in- quiries discovered that the bindings would cost more than slightly shop-worn editions of the books themselves. So the books were bought, cut in two from top to bottom about in the mid- 4 The Pocket University die, one half thrown away, and the other half sc placed upon the shelves that the handsome backs presented the same appearance they would have presented if the entire book had been there. Then the glass doors were locked, the key to the glass doors lost, and sofas and chairs and tables put against them. Thus the millionaire has his library furnished with handsome bind- ings and these I may add are quite adequate for all the use which he wishes to make of them. This is a rather extreme case of the use of books as ornaments, but it illustrates in a bizarre way what is a not uncommon use. There is this to be said for that illiterate millionaire: well-bound books are excellent ornaments. No decoration with wall paper or fresco can make a parlor as attractive as it can be made with low bookshelves filled with works of standard au- thors and leaving room above for statuary, or pictures, or the inexpensive decoration of flowers picked from one's own garden. I am inclined to think that the most attractive parlor I have ever visited is that of a bookish friend whose R^alls are thus furnished with what not only delights the eye, but silently invites the mind to an inspiring companionship. More important practically than their use as ornaments is the use of books as tools. Every The Pocket University 5 professional man needs his special tools — the la\vyer his law books, the doctor his medical books, the minister his theological treatises and his Biblical helps. I can always tell when I go into a clergyman's study by looking at his books whether he is living in the Twentieth Cent- ury or in the Eighteenth. Tools do not make the man, but they make his work and so show what the man is. Every home ought to have some books that are tools and the children should be taught how to use them. There should be at least an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopaedia. If in the evening when the family talk about the war in the Balkans the father gets out the atlas and the children look to see where Roumania and Bul- garia and Greece and Constantinople and the Dardanelles are on the map, they will learn more of real geography in half an hour than they will learn in a week of school study con- cerning countries in which they have no interest. When there is reading aloud in the family circle, if every unfamiliar word is looked up in a dic- tionary, which should always lie easily accessible upon the table, they will get unconsciously a widening of their vocabulary and a knowledge of the use of English which will be an invaluable supplement to the work of their teacher of English in the school. As to cyclopaedias they 6 The Pocket University are of all sizes from the little six-volumed cy- clopaedia in the Everyman's Library to the twenty-nine volumed Encyclopaedia Britannica, and from the general cyclopaedia with more or less full information on every conceivable topic to the more distinctive family cyclopaedia which covers the life of the household. Where there are children in the family the cyclopaedia which covers the field they are most apt to be interested in — such as "The Library of Work & Play" or "The Guide Series" to biography, music, pic- tures, etc. — is the best one to begin with. After they have learned to go to it for information which they want, they will desire a more general cyclopaedia because their wants have increase] and broadened. So much for books as ornaments and as tools. Certainly not less important, if comparisons can be made I am inclined to say more im- portant, is their usefulness as friends. In Smith College this distinction is marked by the College authorities in an interesting and valuable manner. In the library building there is a room for study. It is furnished with a num- ber of plain oak or walnut tables and with chairs which do not invite to repose. There are librarians present to get from the stacks the special books which the student needs. The room is barren of ornament. Each student is hard at The Pocket University 7 work examining, comparing, collating. She is to be called on to-morrow in class to tell what she has learned, or next week to hand in a thesis the product of her study. All eyes are intent upon the allotted task; no one looks up to see you when you enter. In the same building is an- other room which I will call The Lounge, though I think it bears a different name. The books are upon shelves around the wall and all are within easy reach. Many of them are fine editions. A wood fire is burning in the great fireplace. The room is furnished with sofas and easy chairs. No one is at work. No one is talking. No! but they are listening — listening to authors whose voices have long since been silent in death. In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent in cultivating their friendship. This is reading, and reading is ver>^ different from study. The student has been at work all the morning with his tools. He has been studying a question of Constitutional Law: What are the powers of the President of the United States? He haa examined the Constitution; then Willoughby or Watson on the Constitution; then he turns to The Federalist; then perhaps to the Constitu- tional debates, or to the histories, such as Von 8 The Pocket University Hoist's Constitutional History of the United States, or to treatises, such as Bryce's American Commonwealth. He compares the different opinions, weighs them, deliberates, endeavors to reach a decision. Wearied with his morning pursuit of truth through a maze of conflicting theories, he puts his tools by and goes to dinner. In the evening he sits down in the same library for an hour with his friends. He selects his friend according to his mood. Macaulay carries him back across the centuries and he lives for an hour with The Puritans or with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Carlyle carries him unharmed for an hour through the exciting scenes of the French Revolution; or he chuckles over the caustic humor of Thackeray's semi-caricatures of Eng- lish snobs. With Jonathan Swift as a guide he travels with Gulliver into no-man's land and visits Lilliput or Brobdingnag; or Oliver Gold- smith enables him to forget the strenuous life of America by taking him to "The Deserted Vil- lage." He joins Charles Lamb's friends, listens to the prose-poet's reveries on Dream-Children, then closes his eyes and falls into a reverie of his own childhood days; or he spends an hour with Tennyson, charmed by his always musical but not often virile verse, or with Browning, inspired by his always virile but often rugged verse, or with Milton or Dante, and forgets this world The Pocket University 9 altogether, with its problems and perplexities, convoyed to another realm by these spiritual guides; or he turns to the autobiography of one of the great men of the past, telling of his achieve- ments, revealing his doubts and difficulties, his self-conflicts and self-victories, and so inspiring the reader to make his own life sublime. Or one of the great scientists may interpret to him the wonders of nature and thrill him with the achievements of man in solving some of the rid- dles of the universe and winning successive mastery over its splendid forces. It is true that no dead thing is equal to a living person. The one afternoon I spent in John G. Whittier's home, the one dinner I took with Professor Tyndall in his London home, the one half hour which Herbert Spencer gave to me at his Club, mean more to me than any equal time spent in reading the writings of either one of them. These occasions of personal fellowship abide in the memory as long as life lasts. This I say with emphasis that what I say next may not be misunderstood — that there is one respect in which the book is the best of possible friends. You do not need to decide beforehand what friend you will invite to spend the evening with you. When supper is over and you sit down by the evening lamp for your hour of companion- ship, you give your invitation according to your lo The Pocket University inclination at the time. And if you have made a mistake, and the friend you have invited is not the one you want to talk to, you can "shut him up" and not hurt his feelings. Remarkable is the friend who speaks only when you want to listen and can keep silence when you want sil- ence. Who is there who has not been sometimes bored by a good friend who went on talking when you wanted to reflect on what he had already said.-" Who is there who has not had his patience well nigh exhausted at times by a friend whose enthusiasm for his theme appeared to be quite inexhaustible? A book never bores you be- cause you can always lay it down before it be- comes a bore. Most families can do with a few books that are tools. In these days in which there is a library in almost every village, the family that has an atlas, a dictionary, and a cyclopaedia can look to the public library for such other tools as are necessary. And we can depend on the library or the book club for books that are mere acquaintances — the current book about cur- rent events, the books that are read to-day and forgotten to-morrow, leaving only a residuum in our memory, the book that, once read, we never expect to read again. In my own home this cur- rent literature is either borrowed and returned or, if purchased, as soon as it has been used is The Pocket University il passed along to neighbors or to the village libra- ry. Its room is better than its company on my over-crowded book shelves. But books that are friends ought to abide in the home. The very form of the book grows familiar; a different edition, even a different copy, does not quite serve the same friendly pur- pose. If the reader is wise he talks to his friend as well as listens to him and adds in pencil notes, in the margin or on the back pages of the book, his own reflections. I take up these books marked with the indications of my conversation with my friend and in these pencilled memoranda find an added value. Sometimes the mark emphasizes an agreement between my friend and me, some- times it emphasizes a disagreement, and some- times it indicates the progress in thought I have made since last we met. A wisely marked book is sometimes doubled in value by the mark- ing. Before I bring this essay to a close, already lengthened beyond my predetermined limits, I venture to add four rules which may be of value at least to the casual reader. For reading, select the book which suits your inclination. In study it is wise to make your will command your mind and go on with your task however unattractive it may prove to you. You may be a Hamiltonian, and Jef- 12 The Pocket University ferson's views of the Constitution may repel you, or even bore you. No matter. Go on. Scholarship requires persistence in study of matter that repels or even bores the student. You may be a devout believer and Herbert Spencer repellent. Nevertheless, if you are studying you may need to master Herbert Spencer. But if you are reading, read what interests you. If Scott does not interest you and Dickens does, drop Scott and read Dickens. You need not be any one's enemy; but you need not be a friend with everybody. This is as true of books as of persons. For friendship some agree- ment in temperament is quite essential. Henry Ward Beecher's application of this principle struck me as interesting and unique. He did a great deal of his reading on the train in his lecture tours. His invariable companion was a black bag and the black bag always contained some books. As I am writing from recollection of a conversation with him some sixty years ago my statement may lack in accuracy of detail, but not, I think, in essential veracity. He selected in the beginning of the year some four departments of reading, such as Poetry, History, Philosophy, Fiction, and in each de- partment a specific course, such as Greek Poetry, Macaulay's History, Spencer's Philosophy, Scott's Novels. Then he read according to his mcod. The Pocket University 13 but generally in the selected course: if poetry, the Greek poets; if history, Macaulay; if philo- sophy, Spencer; if fiction, Scott. This gave at once liberty to his mood and unity to his reading. One may read either for acquisition or for inspiration. A gentleman who has acquired a national reputation as a popular lecturer and preacher, formed the habit, when in college, of always subjecting himself to a recitation in all his serious reading. After finishing a chapter he would close the book and see how much of what he had read he could recall. One conse- quence is the development of a quite marvelous memory, the results of which are seen in fre- quent and felicitous references in his public speaking to literature both ancient and mod- em. He who reads for inspiration pursues a difFer- •ent course. If as he reads, a thought expressed ^y his author starts a train of thought in his own mind, he lays down his book and follows his thought wherever it may lead him. He endeavors to remember, not thethought which the author has 'ecorded, but the unrecorded thought which the author has stimulated in his own mind. Reading IS to him not an acquisition but a ferment. I imagine from my acquaintance with Phillips Brooks and with his writings that this was his •nethod. 14 The Pocket University I have a friend who says that he prefers to select his authors for himself, not to have them selected for iiim. But he has money with which to buy the books he wants, a room in which to put them, and the broad culture which enables him to make a wise selection. Most of us lack one at least of these qualifications : the money, the space, or the knowledge. For most of us a library for the home, selected as this Pocket Library has been has three great advantages: the cost is not prohibitive; the space can easily be made in oui home for the books; and the selection is more wisely made than any we could make for our- selves. For myself I should be very glad to have the editors of this series come into my library, which is fairly large but sadly needs weeding out, give me a literary appraisal of my books, and tell me what volumes in their respective depart- ments they think I could best dispense with to make room for their betters, and what their betters would be. To these considerations in favor of such a home librar>^ as this, may be added the fact that the books are of such a size that one can easily put a volume in his pocket when he is going on a train or in a trolley car. For busy men and women often the only time for reading is the time which too many of us are apt to waste in doing nothing. The Pocket University 15 Perhaps the highest use of good books is their use as friends. Such a wisely selected group of friends as this librarj'^ furnishes is an invaluable addition to any home which receives it and knows how to make wise use of it. I am glad to have the privilege of introducing it and hope that this introduction may add to the number of homes in which it will find a welcome. THE PURPOSE OF READING By JOHN MACY THE PURPOSE OF READING By JOHN MACY Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no answer. As well ask, Why ought we to be good? or, Why do we believe in a God? The whole universe of wisdom answers. To attempt an answer in a single article would be like turning a spyglass for a moment toward the stars. We take the great simple things for granted, like the air we breathe. In a country that holds popular edu- cation to be the foundation of all its liberties and fortunes, we do not find many people who need to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; even people who do not read much acknowledge vaguely that they ought to read more. There are, to be sure, men of rough worldly wisdom, even endowed with spiritual insight, who distrust "book learning" and fall back on the obvious truth that experience of life is the great teacher. Such persons are in a measure justified in their conviction by the number of unwise human beings who have read much bur to no purpose. 19 20 The Purpose of Reading The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head is a living argument against mere reading. But we can meet such argument by pointing out that the blockhead who cannot learn from books cannot learn much from life, either. That some- times useful citizen whom it is fashionable to call a Philistine, and who calls himself a "practical man," often has under him a beginner fresh from the schools, who is glib and confident in repeating bookish theories, but is not yet skillful in applying them. If the practical man is thoughtless, he sniffs at theory and points to his clumsy assistant as proof of the uselessness of what is to be got from books. If he is wise, the practical man realizes how much better oflf he would be, how much farther his hard work and experience might have carried him, if he had had the advantage of bookish training. Moreover, the hard-headed skeptic, self-madt and self-secure, wh« will not traffic with the litera- ture that touches his life work, is seldom so con- fined to his own little shop that he will not, for recreation, take holiday tours into the literature of other men's lives and labors. The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom found, and at the risk of slandering a patriot, I will express the doubt whether he is a good citizen. The Purpose of Reading 21 Honest he may be, but certainly not wise. The human race for thousands of years has been writing its experiences, telHng how it has met our everlasting problems, how it has struggled with darkness and rejoiced in light. What fools we should be to try to live our lives without the guidance and inspiration of the generations that have gone before, without the joy, encourage- ment, and sympathy that the best imaginations of our generation are distilling into words. For literature is simply life selected and condensed into books. In a few hours we can follow all that is recorded of the life of Jesus — the best that He did in years of teaching and suffering all ours for a day of reading, and the more deeply ours for a lifetime of reading and medita- tion! If the expression of life in words is strong and beautiful and true it outlives empires, like the oldest books of the Old Testament. If it is weak or trivial or untrue, it is forgotten like most of the "stories" in yesterday's newspaper, like most of the novels of last year. The ex- pression of truth, the transmission of knowledge and emotions between man and man from generation to generation, these are the purposes of literature. Not to read books is like being shut up in a dungeon while life rushes by outside. I happen to be writing in Christmas week, and 22 The Purpose of Reading I have read for the tenth time "A Christmas Carol," hy Dickens, that amazing allegory in which the hard, bitter facts of life are involved in a beautiful myth, that wizard's caldron in which humor bubbles and from which rise phantom figures of religion and poetry. Can any one doubt that if this story were read by every man, woman, and child in the world, Christmas would be a happier time and the feelings of the race elevated and strengthened? The story has power enough to defeat armies, to make rev- olutions in the faith of men, and turn the cold markets of the world into festival scenes of char- ity. If you know any mean person you may be sure that he has not read "A Christmas Carol," or that he read it long ago and has forgotten it. I know there are persons who pretend that the sentimentality of Dickens destroys their interest in him. I once took a course with an over- refined, imperfectly educated professor of litera- ture, who advised me that in time I should out- grow my liking for Dickens. It was only his way of recommending to me a kind of fiction that I had not learned to like. In time I did learn to like it, but I did not outgrow Dickens. A person who can read "A Christmas Carol" aloud to the end and keep his voice steady is, I suspect, not a safe person to trust with one's purse or one's honor. The Purpose of Reading 23 It is not necessary to argue about the value of literature or even to define it. One way of bring- ing ourselves to realize vividly what literature can do for us is to enter the libraries of great men and see what books have done for the acknowledged leaders of our race. You will recall John Stuart Mill's experience in reading Wordsworth. Mill was a man of letters as well as a scientific economist and philosopher, and we expect to find that men of letters have been nourished on literature; reading must necessarily have been a large part of their pro- fessional preparation. The examples of men of action who have been molded and inspired by books will perhaps be more helpful to remember; for most of us are not to be writers or to engage in purely intellectual work; our ambitions point to a thousand different careers in the world of action. Lincoln was not primarily a man of letters, al- though he wrote noble prose on occasion, and the art of expression was important, perhaps indis- pensable, in his political success. He read deeply in the law and in books on public questions. For general literature he had little time, either during his early struggles or after his public life began, and his autobiographical memor- andum contains the significant words: "Educa- tion defective." But these more significant 24 The Purpose of Reading words are found in a letter which he wrote to Hackett, the player: "Some of Shakespeare's plays I have never read, while others I have gone over perhaps as frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are 'Lear,' 'Richard III,' 'Henry VIII,' 'Hamlet,' and, especially, 'Macbeth.'" If he had not read these masterpieces, no doubt he would have become President just the same and guided the country through its terrible difficulties; but we may be fairly sure that the high philosophy by which he lifted the political differences of his day above partisan quarrels, the command of words which gives his letters and speeches literary permanence apart from their biographical interest, the poetic exaltation of the Gettysburg Address, these higher qualities of genius, beyond the endowment of any native wit, came to Lincoln in some part from the read- ing of books. It is important to note that he followed Franklin's advice to read much but not too many books; the list of books mentioned in the biographical records of Lincoln is not long. But he went over those half dozen plays "fre- quently." We should remember, too, that he based his ideals upon the Bible and his style upon the King James Version. His writings abound in Biblical phrases. We are accustomed to regard Lincoln as a The Purpose of Reading 25 thinker. His right arm in the saddest duty of his Hfe, General Grant, was a man of deeds; as Lincoln said of him, he was a "copious worker and fighter, but a very meager writer and tele- grapher." In his "Memoirs," Grant makes a modest confession about his reading: "There is a fine library connected with the Academy [West Point] from which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devoted more time to these than to books relating to the course of studies. Much of the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not those of a trashy sort. I read all of Bulwer's then published. Cooper's, Marryat's, Scott's, Washington Irving's works. Lever's, and many others that I do not now remember." Grant was not a shining light in his school days, nor indeed in his life until the Civil War, and at first sight he is not a striking example of a great man influenced by books. Yet who can deny that the fruit of that early reading is to be found in his "Memoirs," in which a man of ac- tion, unused to writing, and called upon to nar- rate great events, discovers an easy adequate style? There is a dangerous kind of conjecture in which many biographers indulge when they try to relate logically the scattered events of a man's life. A conjectured relation is set down as a proved or unquestioned relation. I have said 26 The Purpose of Reading something about this in * writing on biography, and I do not wish to violate my own teachings. But we may, without harm, hazard the sugges- tion, which is only a suggestion, that some of the chivalry of Scott's heroes wove itself into Grant's instincts and inspired this businesslike, modern general, in the days when politeness has lost some of its flourish, to be the great gentleman he was at Appomattox when he quietly wrote into the terms of the surrender that the Con- federate officers should keep their side arms. Stevenson's account of the episode in his essay on "Gentlemen" is heightened, though not above the dignity of the facts, certainly not to a degree that is untrue to the facts, as they are to be read in Grant's simple narrative. Since I have agreed not to say "ought to read," I will only express the hope that the quotation from Stevenson will lead you to the essay and to the volume that contains it. "On the day of the capitulation, Lee wore his presentation sword; it was the first thing that Grant observed, and from that moment he had but one thought: how to avoid taking it. A man, who should perhaps have had the nature of an angel, but assuredly not the special virtues of a gentleman, might have received the sword, and no more words about it; he would have done well in a plain way. One who wished to be a ♦See John Macy's Guide to Reading, Chapter VIII. 1 he Purpose of Reading 27 gentleman, and knew not how, might have re- ceived and returned it: he would have done in- famously ill, he would have proved himself a cad; taking the stage for himself, leaving to his adversary confusion of countenance and the un- graceful posture of a man condemned to offer thanks. Grant without a word said, added to the terms this article: 'AH officers to retain their side arms'; and the problem was solved and Lee kept his sword, and Grant went down to posterity, not perhaps a fine gentleman, but a great on6." Napoleon, who of all men of mighty deeds after Julius Caesar had the greatest intellect, was a tireless reader, and since he needed only four or five hours' sleep in twenty-four he found time to read in the midst of his prodigious activities. Nowadays those of us who are preparing to con- quer the world are taught to strengthen our- selves for the task by getting plenty of sleep. Napoleon's devouring eyes read far into the night; when he was in the field his secretaries for%varded a stream of books to his headquarters; and if he was left without a new volume to begin, some underling had to bear his imperial displeasure. No wonder that his brain contained so many ideas that, as the sharp-tongued poet, Heine, said, one of his lesser thoughts would keep all the scholars and professors in Germany busy all their lives making commentaries on it. zS The Purpose of Reading In Franklin's "Autobiography" we have an unusually clear statement of the debt of a man of affairs to literature: "From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate littU volumes. . . . My father's little library con- sisted chiefly of books on polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved that I should not be a clergy- man. 'Plutarch's Lives' there was in which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book of De Foe's, called an 'Essay on Projects,' and another of Dr. Mather's, called 'Essays to do Good,' which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." It is not surprising to find that the most versa- tile of versatile Americans read De Foe's "Essay on Projects," which contains practical suggestions on a score of subjects, from banking and insur- ance to national academics. In Cotton Math- er's "Essays to do Good" is the germ perhaps of the sensible morality of Franklin's "Poor Rich- ard." The story of how Franklin pave his nighto The Purpose of Reading 29 to the study of Addison and by imitating the Spectator papers taught himself to write, is the best of lessons in self-cultivation in English, The "Autobiography" is proof of how well he learned, not Addison's style, which was suited to Joseph Addison and not to Benjamin Franklin, but a clear, firm manner of writing. In Frank- lin's case we can see not only what he owed to books, but how one side of his fine, responsive mind was starved because, as he put it, more proper books did not fall in his way. The "blind side of Franklin's great intellect was his lack of religious imagination. This defect may be ac- counted for by the forbidding nature of the re- ligious books in his father's library. Repelled by the dull discourses, the young man missed the religious exaltation and poetic mysticism which the New England divines concealed in their polemic argument. Franklin's liking for Bunyan and his confession that his father's dis- couragement kept him from being a poet — "mor^t probably," he says, "a very bad one" — show that he would have responded to the right kind of religious literature, and not have remained all his life such a complacent rationalist. If it is clear that the purpose of reading is to put ourselves in communication with the best minds of our race, we need go no farther for a definition of "good reading." Whatever human 30 The Purpose of Reading beings have said well is literature, whether it be the Declaration of Independence or a love story. Reading consists in nothing more than in taking one of the volumes in which somebody has said something well, opening it on one's knee, and be- ginning. We take it for granted, then, that we know why we read. We may ask one further question: How shall we read.? One answer is that we should read with as much of ourselves as a book warrants, with the part of ourselves that a book demands. Mrs. Browning says: We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. We sometimes know exactly what we wish to get from a book, especially if it is a volume of information on a definite subject. But the great book is full of treasures that one does not de- liberately seek, and which indeed one may miss altogether on the first journey through. It is almost nonsensical to say: Read Macaulay for clearness, Carlyle for power, Thackeray for The Purpose of Reading 3 1 ease. Literary excellence is not separated and bottled up in any such drug-shop array. If Macaulay is a master of clearness it is because he is much else besides. Unless we read a man for all there is in him, we get very little; we meet, not a living human being, not a vital book, but something dead, dismembered, disorganized. We do not read Thackeray for ease; we read him for Thackeray and enjoy his ease by the way. We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or nothing. To be masters of books we must have learned to let books master us. This is true of books that we are required to read, such as text-books, and of those we read voluntarily and at leisure. The law of reading is to give a book its due and a little more. The art of reading is to know how to apply this law. For there is an art of reading, for each of us to learn for himself, a private way of making the acquaintance of books. Macaulay, whose mind was never hurried or confused, learned to read very rapidly, to absorb a page at a glance. A distinguished professor, who has spent his life in the most minutely technical scholarship, surprised us one day by commending to his classes the fine art of "skip- ping." Many good books, including some most meritorious "three-decker" novels, have their 32 The Purpose of Reading profitless pages, and it Is useful to know by a kind of practised instinct where to pause and reread and where to run lightly and rapidly over the page. It is a useful accomplishment not only in the reading of fiction, but in the business of life, to the man of affairs who must get the gist of a mass of written matter, and to the stu- dent of any special subject. Usually, of course, a book that is worth reading at all is worth reading carefully. Thoroughness of reading is the first thing to preach and to practise, and it is perhaps dangerous to suggest to a beginner that any book should be skimmed. The suggestion will serve its purpose if it in- dicates that there are ways to read, that prac- tice in reading is like practice in anything else; the more one does, and the more intelligently one does it, the farther and more easily one can go. In the best reading — that is, the most thoughtful reading of the most thoughtful books — attention is necessary. It is even necessary that we should read some works, some passages, so often and with such close application that we commit them to memory. It is said that the habit of learning pieces by heart is not so prevalent as it used to be. I hope that this is not so. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have The Purpose of Reading 33 not begun to read, you have not learned how to read. We have said enough, perhaps, of the theories of reading. The one lesson that seems most obvious is that we must come close to literature. HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF BOOKS By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF BOOKS By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE One is sometimes asked by young people panting after the waterbrooks of knowledge: "How shall I get the best out of books?" Here indeed, is one of those questions which can be answered only in general terms, with possible il- lustrations from one's own personal experience. Misgivings, too, as to one's fitness to answer it may well arise, as wistfully looking round one's own bookshelves, one asks oneself: "Have I myself got the best out of this wonderful world of books?" It is almost like asking oneself: "Have I got the best out of life?" As we make the survey, it will surely happen that our eyes fall on many writers whom the stress of life, or spiritual indolence, has pre- vented us from using as all the while they have been eager to be used; friends we might have made yet never have made, neglected coun- sellors we would so often have done well to con- sult, guides that could have saved us many d vvTong turning in the difficult way. There, 37 2151.09 38 Getting the Best Out of Books in unvisited corners of our shelves, what neg- lected fountains of refreshments, gardens in which we have never walked, hills we havi never climbed! "Well," we say with a sigh, "a man cannot read everything; it is life that has interrupted our studies, and probably the fact is that we have accumulated more books than we really need." The young reader's appetite is largely in his eyes, and it is very natural for one who is born with a taste for books to gather them about him at first indiscriminately, on the hear- say recommendation of fame, before he really knows what his own individual tastes are, or are going to be, and in that wistful survey I have imagined, our eyes will fall, too, with some amusement, on not a few volumes to which we never have had any really personal relation, and which, whatever their distinction or their value for others, were never meant for us. The way to do with such books is to hand them over to some one who has a use for them. On our shelves they are like so much good thrown away, invita- tions to entertainments for which we have no taste. In all vital libraries, such a process of progressive refection is continually going on, and to realize what we do not want in books, or cannot use, must, obviously, be a first principle in our getting the best out of them Getting the Best Out of Books 39 Yes, we read too many books, and too many that, as they do not really interest us, bring us neither benefit nor diversion. Even from the point of view of reading for pleasure, we man- age our reading badly. We listlessly allow our- selves to be bullied by publishers' advertisements into reading the latest fatuity in fiction, without, in one case out of twenty, finding any of that pleasure we are ostensibly seeking. Instead, indeed, we are bored and enervated, where we might have been refreshed, either by romance or laughter. Such reading resembles the idle ab- sorption of innocuous but interesting bever- ages, which cheer as little as they inebriate, and yet at the same time make frivolous demands on the digestive functions. No one but a publisher could call such reading "light." Actually it is weariness to the flesh and heaviness to the spirit. If, therefore, our idea of the best in books is the recreation they can so well bring; if we go to books as to a playground to forget our cares and to blow off the cobwebs of business, let us make sure that we find what we seek. It is there, sure enough. The playgrounds of liter- ature are indeed wide, and alive with bracing excitement, nor is there any limit to the variety of the games. But let us be sure, when we set )ut to be amused, that we really are amused, 40 Getting the Best Out of Books that our humorists do really make us laugh, and that our story-tellers have stories to tell and know how to tell them. Beware of imita- tions, and, when in doubt, try Shakespeare, and Dumas — even Ouida. As a rule, avoid the "spring lists," or "summer reading." "Sum- mer reading" is usually very hot work. Hackneyed as it is, there is no better general advice on reading than Shakespeare's No profit is where is no pleasure taken, In brief, sir, study what you most affect. Not only in regard to books whose purpose, frankly, is recreation, but also in regard to the graver uses of books, this counsel no less holds. No reading does us any good that is not a pleas- ure to us. Her paths are paths of pleasantness- Yet, of course, this does not mean that all prof- itable reading is easy reading. Some of the books that give us the finest pleasure need the closest application for their enjoyment. There is always a certain spiritual and mental effort necessary to be made before we tackle the great books. One might compare it to the effort of getting up to see the sun rise. It is no little tug to leave one's warm bed — but once we are out in the crystalline morning air, wasn't it worth it? Perhaps our finest pleasure always demands some such austerity of prepa- ration. That is the secret of the truest epicu" Getting the Best Out of Books 41 reanism. Books like Dante's "Divine Com- edy," or Plato's dialogues, will not give them- selves to a lounging reader. They demand a braced, attentive spirit. But when the first effort has been made, how exhilarating are the altitudes in which we find ourselves; what a glow of pure joy is the reward which we are almost sure to win by our mental mountain- eering. But such books are not for moments when we are unwilling or unable to make that neces- sary effort. We cannot always be in the mood for the great books, and often we are too tired physically, or too low down on the depressed levels of daily life, even to lift our eyes toward the hills. To attempt the great books — or any books at all — in such moods and moments, is a mistake. We may thus contract a prejudice against some writer who, approached in more fortunate moments, would prove the very man we were looking for. To know when to read is hardly less impor- tant than to know what to read. Of course, every one must decide the matter for himself; but one general counsel may be ventured: Read only what you want to read, and only when you want to read it. Some readers find the early morning, when they have all the world to themselves, their 42 Getting the Best Out of Books best time for reading, and, if you are a good sleeper, and do not find early rising more weary- ing than refreshing, there is certainly no other time of the day when the mind is so eagerly re- ceptive, has so keen an edge of appetite, and absorbs a book in so fine an intoxication. For your true book-lover there is no other exhilara- tion so exquisite as that with which one reads an inspiring book in the solemn freshness of early morning. One's nerves seem peculiarly strung for exquisite impressions in the first dewy hours of the day, there is a virginal sensitiveness and purity about all our senses, and the mere delight of the eye in the printed page is keener than at any other time. "The Muses love the morning, and that is a fit time for study," said Erasmus to his friend Christianus of Lubeck; and, cer- tainly, if early rising agrees with one, there is no better time for getting the very best out of a book. Moreover, morning reading has a way of casting a spell of peace over the whole day. It has a sweet, solemnizing effect on our thoughts — a sort of mental matins — and through the day's business it accompanies us as with hidden music. There are others who prefer to do their reading at night, and I presume that most readers of this paper are so circumstanced as to have no time to spare for reading during Getting the Best Out of Books 43 the day. Personally, I think that one of the best places to read in is bed. Paradoxical as it may sound, one is not so apt to fall asleep over his book in bed as in the post-prandial armchair. While one's body rests itself, one's mind, remains alert, and, when the time for sleep comes at last, it passes into unconsciousness, tranquilized and sweetened with thought and pleasantly weary with healthy exercise. One awakens, too, next morning, with, so to say, a very pleasant taste of meditation in the mouth. Erasmus, again, has a counsel for the bedtime reader, expressed with much felicity. "A little before you sleep," he says, "read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep; and, when you awake in the morning, call yourself to an account for it." In an old Atlantic Monthly, from which, if I remember aright, he never rescued it, Oliver Wendell Holmes has a delightful paper on the delights of reading in bed, entitled "Pillow- Smoothing Authors." Then, though I suppose we shall have the oculists against us, the cars are good places to read in — if you have the power of detachment, and are able to switch off your ears from other people's conversation. It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will carry it many a 44 Getting the Best Out of Books day and never give it a single look, but, even so, a book in the hand is always a companion- able reminder of that happier world of fancy, which, alas! most of us can only visit by playing truant from the real world. As some men wear boiitonnieres, so a reader carries a book, and sometimes, when he is feeling the need of beauty, or the solace of a friend, he opens it, and finds both. Probably he will count among the most fruitful moments of his reading the snatched glimpses of beauty and wisdom he has caught in the morning car. The covers of his book have often proved like some secret door, through which, surreptitiously opened, he has looked for a moment into his own par- ricular fairy land. Never mind the oculist, therefore, but, whenever you feel like it, read in the car. One or two technical considerations may be ^•ealt with in this place. How to remember what one reads is one of them. Some people are blest with such good memories that they ni-ver forget anything that they have once read. Literary history has recorded many miraculous memories. Still, it is quite possible to remem- ber too much, and thus turn one's mind into a lumber-room of useless information. A good reader forgets even more than he remembers. Probably we remember all that is really neces- Getting the Best Out of Books 45 sarj' for us, and, except in so far as our reading is technical and directed toward some exact science or profession, accuracy of memory is not important. As the Sabbath was made for man, so books were made for the reader, and, when a reader has assimilated from any given book his own proper nourishment and pleasure, the rest of the book is so much oyster shell. The end of true reading is the development of individuality. Like a certain water insect, the reader instinctively selects from the outspread world of books the building materials for the house of his soul. He chooses here and rejects there, and remembers or forgets according to the formative desire of his nature. Yet it often happens that he forgets much that he needs to remember, and thus the question of methodical aids to memory arises. One's first thought, of course, is of the com- ■."nonplace book. Well, have you ever kept one, or, to be more accurate, tried to keep one? Personally, I believe in the commonplace book so long as we don't expect too much from it. Its two dangers are (i) that one is apt to make far too many and too minute entries, and (2) that one is apt to leave all the remembering to the commonplace book, with a consequent re- laxation of one's own attention. On the other hand, the mere discipline of a commonplace 46 Getting the Best Out of Books book is a good thing, and if — as I think is tht best way — we copy out the passages at full length, they are thus the more securely fixed in the memory. A commonplace book kept with moderation is really useful, and may be delightful. But the entries should be made at full length. Otherwise, the thing becomes a mere index, an index which encourages us to forget. Another familiar way of assisting one's mem- ory in reading is to mark one'* own striking passages. This method is cliiefly worth while for the sake of one's second and subsequent readings; though it all depends when one makes the markings — at what time of his life, I mean. Markings made at the age of twenty years are of little use at thirty — except negatively. In fact, I have usually found that all I care to read again of a book read at twenty is just the pas- sages I did not mark. This consideration, how- ever, does not depreciate the value of one's com- paratively contemporary markings. At the same time, marking, like indexing, is apt, unless guarded against, to relax the memory. One is apt to mark a passage in lieu of remembering it. Still, for a second reading, as I say — a second reading not too long after the first — marking is a useful method, particularly if one regards his first reading of a book as a prospecting of the Getting the Best Out of Books 47 ground rather than a taking possession. One's first reading is a sort of flying visit, during which he notes the places he would like to visit again and really come to know. A brief index of one's markings at the end of a volume is a method of memory that commended itself to the booklovers of former days — to Leigh Hunt, for instance. Yet none of these external methods, useful as they may prove, can compare with a habit of thorough attention. We read far too hur- riedly, too much in the spirit of the "quick lunch." No doubt we do so a great deal from the misleading idea that there is so very much to read. Actually, there is very little to read, — if we wish for real reading — and there is time to read it all twice over. We — Americans — bolt our books as we do our food, and so get far too little good out of them. We treat our mental digestions as brutally as we treat our stomachs. Meditation is the digestion of the mind, but we allow ourselves no time for medita- tion. We gorge our eyes with the printed page, but all too little of what we take in with our eyes ever reaches our minds or our spirits. We assimilate what we can from all this hurry of superfluous food, and the rest goes to waste, and, as a natural consequence, contributes only to the wear and tear of our mental organism. 48 Getting the Best Out of Books Books should be real things. They were so once, when a man would give a fat field in ex- change for a small manuscript; and they are no less real to-day — some of them. Each age contributes one or two real books to the eternal library — and always the old books re- main, magic springs of healing and refreshment. If no one should write a book for a thousand years, there are quite enough books to keep us going. Real books there are in plenty. Per- haps there are more real books than there are real readers. Books are the strong tincture of experience. They are to be taken carefully, drop by drop, not carelessly gulped down b}'' the bottleful. Therefore, if you would get the best out of books, spend a quarter of an hour in read- ing, and three-quarters of an hour in thinking over what you have read. THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING PREPARED BY ASA DON DICKINSON THE GUIDE TO DAILY READING The elaborate, systematic "course of reading" is a bore. After thirty years spent among books and bookish people I have never yet met any- one who would admit that he had ploughed through such a course from beginning to end. Of course a few faithful souls, with abundant leisure, have done this, just as there are men who have walked from New York City to San Francisco. Good exercise, doubtless! But most of us have not time for feats of such questionable utility. Yet I myself and most of the booklovers whom I know have started at one time or another to pursue a course of reading, and we have never regretted our attempts. Why? Because this is an excellent way to discover the comparatively small number of authors who have a message that we need to hear. When such an one is dis- covered, one may with a good conscience let the systematic course go by the board until one has absorbed all that is useful from the store of good things offered by the valuable new ac- quaintance. 51 52 Guide to Daily Reading Each one has his idiosyncrasies. If I maj' be permitted to allude to a personal failing, let me confess that I have never read "Paradise Lost'* or "Pilgrim's Progress." I have hopefully dipped into them repeatedly, but — / don't like them. Some day I hope to, but until my mind is ready for these two great world-books, I do not intend to waste time by driving through them with set teeth. There are too many other good books that I do enjoy reading. "In brief. Sir, study what you most affect." The "Guide to Daily Readings" which follows makes no claim to be systematic. The aim has been simply to introduce the reader to a goodly company of authors — to provide a daily flower of thought for the buttonhole, to-day a glorious rose of poetic fancy, to-morrow a pert little pansy of quaint humor. Yet nearly all the selections are doubly signi- ficant and interesting if read upon the days to which they are especially assigned. For ex- ample, on New Year's Day it is suggested that one set one's house in order by reading Franklin's "Rules of Conduct," Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," Bryant's "Thanatopsis," and Lowell's "To the Future"; on January 19th, Poe's Birth- day, one is directed to an excellent sketch of Poe and to typical examples of his best work, "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado"; and Guide to Daily Reading 53 on October 31st, Hallowe'en, one is reminded of Burns's "Tarn O'Shanter" and Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The references are explicit in each case, so that it is a matter of only a few seconds to find each one. For example, the reference to the "Cask of Amontillado" is 4-Pt. 1:67-77; which means that this tale is ten pages long and will be found in Part I of volume 4, at page 67. Ex- cepting volumes 10-15 (Poetry), two volumes are bound in one in this set, so it should be re- membered that generally there are two pages numbered 67 in each book. The daily selections can in most cases be read in from fifteen minutes to half an hour, and Dr. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, has said that fifteen minutes a day devoted to good litera- ture will give every man the essentials of a liberal education. If time can be found between breakfast and the work-hours for these few min- utes of reading, one will receive more benefit than if it is done during the somnolent period which follows the day's work and dinner. It is a mis- take, however, to read before breakfast. Eyes and stomach are too closely related to permit of this. Happy is he who can read these books in com- pany with a sympathetic companion. His en- joyment of the treasure they contain will be doubled. 54 Guide to Daily Reading One final hint — when reading for something besides pastime, get in the habit of referring when necessary to dictionary, encyclopaedia, and atlas. If on the subway or a railway train, jot down a memorandum of the query on the flyleaf, and look up the answer at the first opportunity. Asa Don Dickinson. Guide to Daily Reading 55 There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will I not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little lime, every day, to study. — Daniel Wyttenbach. January i st to tth 1st. I. Franklin's Rules of Conduct, 6-Pt.II: 86- lOI II. Longfellow's Psalm of Life, 14:247-248 III. Bryant's Thanatopsis, 15:18-20 IV. Lowell's To the Future, 13:164-167 « -'nd I. Arnold's Self Dependence, 14:27^-274 IL Adams'sColdWaveofuB. C.,9-Pt.I: 146 III. Thomas's Frost To-night, 12:343 grd. ToMASSO Salvini, b. i Ja. 1829; d. 1 Ja. 1916 I. Tomasso Salvini, i7-II:8o-io8 4th. I. Extracts from Thackeray's Book of Snobs, i-Pt.I:3-37 cth. I. Ruskin's Venice, i-Pt.II:73-88 II. St. Marks, i-Pt.II:9i-ioo 6th. I. Shakespeare's Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, 12:256-257 II. Messinger's A Winter Wish, 12:259-261 III. Emerson's The Snow Storm, i4:9]-94 IV. Thackeray's Nil Nisi Bonum, i-Pt.I:i30- «43 7th. I. Adams's Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter, 9-Pt.[:i47 IT. Us Poets, 9-Pt.1: 148 III. Spenser's Amoretti, 13:177 56 Guide to Daily Reading No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle. , January 8th to 14TH 8th. I. Fred Trover's Little Iron-clad, 7-Pt.II: 82-105 Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, 2i-Pt.II:i-56 Carivle's Boswell's Life of Johnson, 2-Pt.L. 32-78 .Alexander Hamilton, h. 11 J a. 1757 Alexander Hamilton, i6-Pt. 1:71-91 Macaulay's Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Biog- rapher, 2-Pt.n:30-3g IL The Puritans, 2-Pt.n:23-29 13th. Edmund Spenser, d, 16 Ja. 1599 L Prothalamion, 13:13-20 14th. L Hawthorne's Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, 3-Pt.L3-i9 9th. L 1 0th. L nth. L I2th. L Guide to Daily Reading 57 The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — Sir John Herschel. January 15TH to 2ist 15th. Edward Everett, d. 15 Ja. 1865 I. Lincoln to Everett, 5-Pt.I:i20 II. Irvlng's Westminster Abbey, 3-Pt. 11:75- 92 i6th. George V. Hobart, b. 16 Ja. 1867 I. John Henr>' at the Races, 9-Pt. 11:107-113 II. Foe's The Black Cat, 4-Pt. 1:127-143 17th. Benjamin Franklin, b. 17 Ja. 1706 I. Foot Richard's Almanac, 6-Pt. 11:133-149 II. Maxims, 7-Ft.I:ii III. The Whistle, 6-Pt.II:is6-i59 i8th. Daniel Werster, b. 18 Ja. 1782 I. Adams and Jefferson, 6-Ft. 1:3-60 19th. Edgar Allan Foe, b. 19 Ja. 1809 IT Cask of Amontillado, 4-Ft.I:67-77 II. The Raven, 10:285-292 III. Edgar Allan Foe, 17-Pt. 1:28-37 20th. N. F. Willis, b. 20 Ja. 1806 I. Miss Albina McLush, 7-Ft. 1:25-29 Richard Le Gallienne, b. 20 Ja. 1866 II. May Is Building Her House, 12:328 2isr. James Stuart, Earl of Murray, killed 21 Ja. 1570 I. The Bonny Earl of Murray, 10:21-22 II. Lincoln's The Dred Scott Decision, 5-Ft. 1:13-22 III. Fragment on Slavery, 5-Ft.I:i I- 12 58 Guide to Daily Reading He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. His taste is rendered so acute as easily to distinguish the nicest shade of differ- ence. — William Godwin. January 22nd to 28th 22nd. _ Lord Byron, b. 22 Ja. 1788 Macaulay's Lord Byron the Man, 2-Pt.II: 80-94 On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, 12:275-277 The Isles of Greece, 14:75-79 Lamb's Dream Children, 5-Pt. 11:34- 40 On Some of the Old Actors, s-Pt.II:52-7o Spenser's Epithalamium, 13:20-37 Robert Burns, b. 25 Ja. 1759 The Cotter's Saturday Night, 1 1 :40-48 Robert Burns, 17-Pt. 1:43-64 Halleck's Burns, 15:67-73 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, d. 26 Ja. 1849 Wolfram's Dirge, 15:42-43 How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear? .12:158-159 Dream-Pedlary, 12:227-228 Franklin's Philosophical Experiments, 6-Pt. 11:125-130 John McCrae, Died in France 28 Ja. 1918 In Flanders Fields, 15: 214 28th. Henry Morton Stanley, b. 28 Ja. 1841 I. HcnrA' Morton Stanley, I7-Pt.ll:97-I24 I. II. HI 23 rd. I. n. 24th. I. 2Sth. I. n. n. 26th. I. n. HI IV. 27th. » Guide to Daily Reading 59 We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by con- versing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. . . . — Walter Savage Landor. January 29TH to February 4TH 29th. Adelaide Ristori, b. 30 Ja. 1822 I. Adelaide Ristori, ij-Pt.IIaog-iig II. Thackeray's On Being Found Out, i-Pt. 1:104-115 30th. Walter Savage Landor, b. 30 Ja. 1775 I. Rose Aylmer, 15:119 II. The Maid's Lament, 15:119-120 III. Mother I Cannot Mind My Wheel, 12:273 rV. On His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 13:278 V. Ruskin's The Two Boyhoods, i-Pt. 11:3-23 31st. I. Carlyle's Essay on Biography, 2-Pt.I:3-3 1 F. 1st. I. Morris's February, 14:102-103 II. Bclloc's South Country, 12:331 III. Early Morning, 13:294 2nd. W. R. Benet, b. 2 F. 1886 I. Tricksters, 13:288 II. Hodgson's Eve, 11:324 III. The Cypsy Girl, 14:299 3rd. Sidney Lanier, b. 3 F. 1842 I. The Marshes of Glynn, 14:55-61 II. A Ballad of Trees and the Master, 12:316- 317 . III. The Stirrup Cup, 13:283 4th. Thomas Carlyle, d. 4 F. 1881 81 I. Mirabeau, 2-Pt. 1:79-86 II. Ghosts, 2-Pt. 1:134-137 III. Labor, 2-Pt.I:i38-i4:; 6o Guide to Daily Reading Borrow therefore, of those golden morning hours, ana bestow them on your book. — Earl of Bedford February 5th to iith 5th I. De Quincev's On the Knocking at the Gate In Macbeth, 4-Pt.II:ioo-io7 6th. Sir Henry Irving, b. 6 F. 1838 I, Sir Henry Irving, 17-11:39-47 7th Charles Dickens, b. 7 F. 1812 I. The Trial for Murder, 2i-Pt.I:i-i9 8th John Ruskin, b. 8 F. 1819 I. The Slave Ship, i-Pt.II :27-29 II. Art and Morals, i-Pt.II:i03-l32 III. Peace, i-Pt.IInjS'U^ Ot^. George Adk, i>. ^ F. 186b ^ „ ^ I The Fable of the Preacher, 9-Pt.lI:67-7i li The Fable of the Caddy, 9-Pt.Il:93-94 III. The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players^ 9-Pt.II:i3i-i36 loth. Sir John Suckling, baptized 10 F. 1609 I. Encouragements to a Lover, 12:122 li. Constancy, 12:122-123 E. W. Townsend, b. 10 F. 1855 III. Chimmie Meets the Duchess, 9-Pt.6 109-114 nth. I. Brooke's Dust, 12:341 II. 1914— V— The Soldier, 15: 228 HI. Guiterman's In the Hospital, 15:203 Guide to Daily Reading 6i The scholar, only, knows koto dear these silent, yet eCoquent, covipanions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. Jf^hen all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. — ^Washington Irving. February i2th to i8th 1 2th. Abraham Lincoln, b. 12 F. 1809 I. Lincoln, i6-Pf.L.93-i4i 13th. L Irving's The Stout Gentleman, 3-Pt.II: 129-145 14th. W. T. Sherman, d. 14 F. 1891 L General William Tecumseh Sherman, i6-Pt.TI:32-6i i5tl. Charles Bertrand Lewis ("M. Quad") b. 15 F. 1842 L The Patent Gas Regulator, 9-Pt.II :3-7 • IL Two Cases of Grip, S-Pt. 1:50-53 Joseph Hergesheimer, b. 15 F. 1880 A. Sprig of Lemon Verbena, 22-Pt.II:i-47 Josephine Dodge Daskam, b. 17 F. 1876 The Woman Who Was Not Athletic, 9-Pt. 11:78-80 The Woman Who Used Her Theory, 9-Pt. II: 8C-81 The Woman Who Helped Her Sister, 9-Pt.n:8i-82 l8th. I. De Ouincey's The Aflfliction of Childhood, 4-Pt.II:3-30 i6th. L 17th. I. n. Ill 62 Guide to Daily Reading Jriiat a place to be in is an old library! It seems a^ though all the souls of all the writers were reposing here. Charles Lamb. February iqth to 25TH 19th. I. Conrad's The Lagoon, 22-Pt.I:i7-37 20th. Joseph Jefferson, b. 20 F. 1829 I. Joseph Jefferson, 17-Pt. 11:3-22 2ist. John Henry Newman, b. 21 F. iSoi I. The Pillar of the Cloud, 12:323 II. Sensitiveness, 15:183-184 III. Flowers Without Fruit, 15:184 IV. Lincoln's Address at Cooper Institute, 5-Pt.I:37-69 22nd. George Washington, b. 22 F. 1732 Washington, 16-Pt. 1:3-42 Mrs. Freeman's The Wind in the Rosebush, 20-Pt.II:i2-38 Samuel Lover, b. 24 F. 1797 The Gridiron, i9-Pt.II:59-70 Lamb's Superannuated Man, 5-Pt.II: 80-91 Old China, 5-Pt.II:9i-ioo I. 23 rd. I. 24th. I. 25th. I. II Guide to Daily Reading 63 .4 little peaceful home Bounds all my wants and wishes; add to this My book and friend, and this is happiness. — Francesco Di Rioja. February 26th to March 4TH i6th. Sam Walter Foss, d. 26 F. 191 1 I. The Prayer of Cyrus Brown, 9-Pt.II:8 II. The Meeting of the Clabberhuses, 8-Pt.I: 39-41 III. A Modern Martyrdom, 9-Pt.II: 84-86 IV. The Ideal Husband to His Wife, 9-Pt.I: 103-104 27th, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, b. 27 F. 1807 I. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I7-Pt.l.- 3-27 Wreck of the Hesperus, 10:156-160 My Lost Youth, 12:263-266 Ellen Terry, b. 27 F. 1848 Kllen Terry, i7-Pt.II:48-6o Morris's March, 14:103-104 W. D. HowELLS, b. I Mr. 1837 Mrs. Johnson, 8-Pt. 11:107-128 Franklin's Settling Down, 6-Pt. 11:76-85 Public Affairs, 6-Pt.II:i02-i07 Edmund Waller, b. 9 Mr. 1606 On a Girdle, 12:132 Go, Lovely Rose, 12:136-137 De la Mare's The Listeners, 11:327 4th. Inauguration Day I. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 5-Pt.I: 74-89 II. IIL 28th. 1. Mr.isi I. n. 2nd. I. IL 3rd. I. n. in. 64 Guide to Daily Reading A little library, growing larger every year, is an honor- able pari of a mans history. It is a wans duty to have hooks. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessar- ies of life. — Henry Ward Beecher. March 5th to i ith cth. Frank Norris, b. 5 Mr. 1870 I. The Passing of Cock-Eye Elacklock, 22-Pt. 11:64 6th. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, b. 6 Mr. 1806 I. Mother and Poet, 11:297-302 II. A Musical Instrument, 12: 282-283 III. The Cry of the Children, 12: 296-302 7th. I. Thackeray's On a Lazy Idle Boy, i-Pt.I: 41-51 8th. Henry Ward Beecher, d. 8 Mr. 1887 I. Deacon Marble, 7-Pt.1: 13-15 II. The Deacon's Trout, 7-Pt.I:i5-i6 III. Noble and the Empty Hole, 7-Pt.I:i7-i8 9th. Anna Letitia Barbauld, d. 9 Mr. 1825 I. Life, 14:260-261 II. Dunsany's Night at an Inn, i8:i loth. I. Ruskin's The Mountain Gloom, i-Pt.II: 33-56 nth. Charles Sumner, d. 11 Mr. 1S74 I. Longfellow's Charles Sumner, 15:111-112 Giles Fletcher, buried 11 Mr. 161 1 II. Wooing Song, 12:101-102 III. Carlyle's Reward, 2-Pt.I:i46-i6o Guide to Daily Reading 65 Books that can he held in the hand, and carried to the fireside are tlie be it after all. — Samuel Johnson. March i2TH to i8th 12th. I. A Family Horse, g-Pt. 1:3-14 II. Living in the Country, 7-Pt.I:S2-95 * 13th. I. Macaulay's Task of the Modern Historian, 2-Pt.II:3-22 II. Puritans, 2-Pt.II:23-29 14th. Henry IV. defeated the "Leagiurs" at Ivry, 14 Mr. 1590 I. Macaulay's Ivry, 10:194-199 ijth. Johann Ludwig Paul Heyse, b. 15 Mr. 1830 I. L'Arrabiata, 20-Pt.I:i30-iS7 i6th. Will Irwin, b. n; Mr. 1876 I. The Servant Problem, 7-Pt.I:i32 17th. I. Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face, 3-Pt. 1:103-135 l8th. I. Roche's The V-A-S-E.7-l'tn:6o^i II. Roche's A Boston Lullaby, 8-Pt.II:78 III. A Boston Lullaby (Anon.), 7-Pt.n:io5 IV. Burgess's The Bohemians of Boston, 7-Pt. 11:141-143 66 Guide to Daily Reading Thf first time I read an excellent book, it is to vie just OS if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. — Oliver Goldsmith. March 19TH to 25TH 19th. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, d. 19 Mr. 1907 A Rivermouth Romance, 7-Pt.II:i29-i40 A Death Bed, 15:136-137 Charles Godfrey Leland, d. 20 Mr. 1903 Ballad, 7-Pt.II:si-S2 Hans Breitmann's Party, 7-Pt. 1:96-97 De Quincey's Levana, 4-Pt. 11:145-157 Robert Southey, d. 21 Mr. 1843 The Inchcape Rock, 10:153-156 My Days Among the Dead Are Past, i^. 261-262 Lincoln's Springfield Speech, 5-Pt.I:23-36 Lamb's Two Races of Men, 5-Pt.II:3-ii John Davidson, disappeared 23 Mr. 1909 Butterflies, 12:345 Doyle's Dancing Men, 22-Pt. 1:63-100 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, d. 24 Mr. 1882 The Building of the Ship, 11:89-102 The Skeleton in Armor, 10:124-130 Resignation, 15:131-133 The Arrow and the Song, 12:283-284 Franklin's George Whitefield, 6-Pt.n: 108-114 The Franklin Stove, 6-Pt.II:ii5-ii6 Civic Pride, 6-Pt.n:i 17-124 Advice to a Young Tradesman, 6-Pt.n: 153-155 I. IL 20th. L n. HL 2ISt. L IL HL 22nd. L 23 rd. L n. 24th. L n. HL IV. 25th. I. IL III. IV. Guide to Daily Reading 67 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were writ- ten for our learnings. — St. Paul. March 26th to April ist 26th. A. E. HousMAN, b. 26 Mr. 1859 I. A Shropshire Lad-XIII, 12:340 II. Ferber's Gay Old Dog, 22-Pt.II:8i-ii4 27th. I. Thackeray's Thorns in the Cushion, i-Pt. 1:51-64 28th. FocH, made Commander Allied Armies, 28 Mr. igi8 I. Burr's Fall In, 15:211 II. Coates's Place de la Concorde, 15:226 29th. BoNNivARD, Prisoner of Chillon, liberated 29 Mr. 1536 I. Byron's Pnsoner of Chillon, 11:191-204 30th. De Wolf Hopper, b. 30 Mr. 1858 I. Casey at the Bat, 9-Pt. 1:95-98 II. Butler's Just Like a Cat, 8-Pt. 1:152 31st. Andrew Marvell, b. 31 Mr. 1621 I. The Garden, 14:20-22 II. Bermudas, 15:162-163 John Donne, ng Ago, 11:9-11 III. Evelyn Hope, 15:121-123 IV. How They Brought the Good News, 10: 130-134 V. A Woman's Last Word, 14:189-191 8th. I. Shakespeare's Sonnets, 13:184-195 II. Peabody's Fortune and Men's Eyes, 18:89 oth. J. M. Barrie, i. 9 My. i860 I. The Courting of t'Nowhead's Bell, 20-Pt. 1: 1-29 loth. Henry M. Stanley, d. 10 My. 1904 I. In Darkest Africa, i6-Pt.II:97-i24 nth. I. Wordsworth's The Green Linnet, 14:106- 108 George Edward Woodberry, b. 12 My. 1855 II. At Gibraltar, 13:290 1 2th. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, b. 12 My. 1S2G I. The Blessed Damozel, io:58-.if.l Hawthorne, d. 19 My. 1864 II. The Great Carbuncle, 2Q-Pt.1 1:30-5 2 aoth. I. GerstenbcTR's Overtones, 18:139 78 Guide to Daily Reading At this day, as much company as I have kept, and aj. much as I love it, I love reading better. — Alexander Pope. May 2 1 ST to 27TH 2ist. Alexander Pope, b. 21 My. 1688 I. On a Certain Lady at Court, 13:272-273 II. The Dying Christian to His Soul, 15:169 III. The Universal Prayer, 15:166-168 James Graham, Marquis of Montrose,. d. 21 My. 1650 IV. The Execution of Montrose, 10:270-277 22nd. Arthur Conan Doyle, b. 22 My. 1859 I. The Dancing Men, 22-Pt.I:63 23rd. Thomas Hood, b. 23 My. 1799 Flowers, 12:53-54 I Remember, I Remember, 12:269-270 The Song of the Shirt, 12:292-295 The Bridge of Sighs, 15:124-128 The Dream of Eugene Aram, 11:265-273 Richard Mansfield, b. 24 My. 1857 Richard Mansfield, i7-Pt.II:6i-79 Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 25 My. 1803 The Rhodora, 14:115 The Titmouse, 12:66-69 The Problem, 14:268-271 Lincoln's The Whigs and the Mexican War, S-Pt.I:3-6 Notes for a Law Lecture, 5-Pt.I:7-io Bret Harte's Melons, 7-Pt.II:4i-50 The Society upon the Stanislaus, 7-Pt.II: 57-59 Lady Dufferin's The Lament of the Irish Emigrant, 15:128-130 Hawthorne's Wakefield, 3-Pt. 1:85-99 I. n. in. IV. V. 24th. I. 25th. I. n. in. IV. V. 26th. I. n. 27th. L n. Guide to Daily Reading 79 All the best experience of humanity, folded, saved, freighud to us here .' Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, jEschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims! — ^Walt Whitman. May 28th to June 3rd 28th. Thomas Moore, b. 28 My. I779 I. As Slow Our Ship, 12:232-233 II. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, 12:157-158 III. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, 11:83-85 rV. Oft in the Stilly Night, 12:271-272 V. Fly to the Desert, 12:155-157 VI. Canadian Boat Song, 12:233-234 29th. I. De Quincey's Pleasures of Opium, 4-Pt.II: 31-73 30th Memorial Day I. Hale's The Man Without a Country, 21-Pt. 11:57-95 31st. Walt Whitman, b. 31 My. 1819 I. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rockmg, 14: 120-129 Je. ist. Henry Francis Lyte, b. 1 Je. 1793 I. Abide W'ith Me, 15:180-181 John Drinkwater, b. i Je. 1882 II. Birthright, 15:199 Christopher Marlowe, killed in a street brawl, I Je. 1593 III. Porcelain Cups, 22-Pt. 1:38-62 8o Guide to Daily Reading 2nd. J. G. Saxe, b. 2 Je. 1816 I. Early Rising, 9-Pt.1 71-72 II. The Coquette, 7-Pt. 11:29-10 III. The Stammering Wife, 7-l't. 1:98-99 IV. My Familiar, 9-Pt. 1:13-16 Thomas Hardy, b. 2 Je. 1840 V. Hardy's The Oxen, 15:201 3rd. I. Hood's It Was Not in the Winter, 12:167- 168 II. Lamb's Letters, S-Pt.II: 1 17-145 Guide to Daily Reading 8i We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. — Plutarch. June 4th to ioth 4th. I. Thackeray's Dennis Haggarty's Wife, 2i-Pt.I:20-S2 5th. O. Henry, d. 5 Je. 1910 I. The Furnished Room, 22-Pt.I:i40 6th. Robert Falcon Scott, b. 6 Je. 1868 I. Captain Scott's Last Struggle, i6-Pt.II: 152-159 7th. Edwin Booth, d. 7 Je. 1893 I. Edwin Booth, i7-Pt.II:23-38 8th. I. Lamb's Letters, 5-Pt.II:i03-io6 9th. Charles Dickens, d. 9 Je. 1870 I. Charles Dickens, 17-Pt. 1:99-120 loth. Edward Everett Hale, d. 10 Je. 1909 L My Double and How He Undid Me, 8-Pt. 1:124-142 82 Guide to Daily Reading 1} an author be worthy of anything, he is worth bottom' ing. It may be all very well to skim milk, for the cream lies on the top; but who could skim Lord Byron? — George Searle Phillips. June iith to 17TH nth. I. Wells's Tragedy of a Theatre Hat, 9-Pt. 11:50-55 II. One Week, 9-Pt.II:i5i III. The Poster Girl, 8-Pt.II 192-93 IV. A Memory, 9-Pt.I:ii6-ii7 I2th. Charles Kingsley, b. 12 Je. 1819 I. Oh! That We Two Were Maying, 12:175- 176 II. The Last Buccaneer, 14:240-242 III. The Sands of Dee, 10:261-262 IV. The Three Fishers, 10:262-263 V. Lorraine, II :3o6-3o8 yth. William Butler Yeats, b. 13 Je. 1865 \ I. Ballad of Father Gilligan, 10:314 ^ II. Fiddler of Dooney, 14:310 14th. Flag Day I. Whittier's Barbara Frietchie, 10:210-213 II. Key's Star-Spangled Banner, 12:213-215 III. Drake's American Flag, 12:215-217 IV. Holmes's Old Ironsides, 12:217-218 15th. I. Leacock's My Financial Career, 9-Pt.II: 19-23 II. Hawthorne's Gray Champion, 3-Pt.I: 139-152 16th. I. Lanigan's The Villager and the Snake, 9-Pt-I:i9 Guide to Daily Reading 83 II. The Amateur Orlando, 9-Pt.I:26-30 III. The Ahkoond of Swat, 8-Pt.I: 37-38 17th. Joseph .Addison, d. 17 Je. 1719 I. The Voice of the Heavens, 15:165-166 II. Poe's MS. Found In a Bottle, 4-Pt. I: 105-123 III. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, S-Pt. 1:90-93 rV. Ship of State and Pilot, 5-Pt. 1:94-95 84 Guide to Daily Reading Sitting last winter among my books, and walled around with all the comfort and protection which they and my fireside could aford me — to wit, a table of higher piled books at my back, my writing desk on one side of me, some shelves on the other, and the feeling of the warm fire at my feet — / began to consider how I loved the authors of those books. — Leigh Hunt. June i8th to 24TH iSth. I. Hawthorne's Ethan Brand, 3-Pt.I:5S-82 19th. Richard Monckton Milnes, d. Aug. 11, 1885 I. The Brook-Side, 12:177-178 II. The Men of Old, 14:133-135 III. Lincoln's Speech in Independence Hall, 5-Pt. 1:71-73 IV. To the Workingmen of Manchester, 5-Pt. 1:115-117 20th. I. Longfellow's Hymn to the Night, 12:46-47 II. The Light of the Stars, 12:48-49 III. Daybreak, 12:49-50 IV. Seaweed, 14:88-89 V. The Village Blacksmith, 14:165-166 2ist. Henry Guy Carleton, b. 21 Je. 1856 I. The Thompson Street Poker Club, 7-Pt. II: 116-121 II. Munkittrick's Patriotic Tourist, 9-Pt.II: 47-48 III. What s m a Name, 9-Pt.II:i03-i04 IV. 'Tis Ever Thus, 9-Pt.II:i52 22nd. Ai.an Seeger, b. 22 Je. 1888 I. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 15: 215 II. O. Henry's Gift of the Magi, 22-Pt.II :48 Guide to Daily Reading 85 2^rd I Longfellow's The Day Is Done, 12:240-242. li. The Beleaguered City, 14:249-251 III. The Bridge, 12:279-282 rV. Whittier's Ichabod, 14:154-156 V. Maud MuUer, 11:219-224 uth Ambrose Bierce, b. 24 Je 1842 I. The Dog and the Bees, 7-Pt-n:io li. The Man and the Goose, 9-Pt.I:8s Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Je. 13 14 III Burns's Bannockburn, 12:198-199 rV. My Heart's in the Highlands, 12:36-37 V. The Banks of Doon, 12:146-147 86 Guide to Daily Reading Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks o! quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. June 25TH to July ist 25th. I. Goodman's Eugenically Speaking, 18:193 26th. I. Bums's Elegy, 15:61-64 II. Mary Morison, 12: 147-148 III. Oh! Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12:148-149 IV. 0, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose, 12: 149-150 V. Ae Fond Kiss, 12:150-151 27th. Helen Keller, b. 27 Je. 1880 I. Helen Keller, 17-Pt. 1:167-171 II. Garrison's A Love Song, 12:338 28th. I. Lincoln's Letter to Bryant, 5-Pt.I:i22-l23 II. Burns's Of A' the Airts, 12:151 III. Highland Mary, 12:152-153 rV. A Farewell, 12:199-200 V. It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, 12:200- 201 29th. I. The Pit and the Pendulum, 21-Pt. 1:139- 162 30th. I. Burns's John Anderson My Jo, 12: 245-24vy II. Thou Lingering Star, 12:270-271 III. Lines Written on a Banknote, 13:273-274 IV. Byron's Darkness, 11:102-105 V. Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom, 15:113-114 Jl 1st. Harriet Beecher Stowe, d. i JI. 1896 I. The Minister's Wooing, 8-Pt. 11:97-106 Guide to Daily Reading 87 A library is not worth anything without a catalogue; it is a Polyphemus without an eye in his head — arid you must confront the difficulties whatever they may be, of making a proper catalogue. — Thomas Carlyle. July 2nd to 8th 2nd. Richard Henry Stoddard, b. 2 Jl. 1825 I. There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 12:267 II. The Sky, 13:281 III. Byron's Ode on Venice, 13:115-121 IV. Stanzas for Music, 12:162-163 V. When We Two Parted, 12: 163-164 3rd. Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Oilman, b. 3 J!, i860 I. Similar Cases, 9-Pt.T.53-S7 II. Byron's She Walks in Beauty, 12:164-165 III. Destruction of Sennacherib, 11:183-184 IV. Sonnet on Chillon, 13:222 4th. Nathaniel Hawthorne, b. 4 Jl. 1804 I. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 17-Pt.1. 74-98 Declaration of Independence, 4 Jl. 1776 II. Emerson's Ode, 13:167-169 5th. I. Emerson's Waldeinsamkeit, 14:39-41 II. The World Soul, 12: 59-63 III. To the Humblebee, 12:64-66 IV. The Forerunners, 14:265-267 V. Brahma, 14:271 6th. I. Macdonald's Earl o' Quarterdeck, 10:300 7th. I. Markham's Man with the Hoe, 14:294 8th. Shelley drowned, 8 Jl. 1822 I. Memorabilia, 14:151 II. Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, 2i-Pt. 1:107-128 88 Guide to Daily Reading For my part I have t'vcr gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most. — Julius C. Hare. July 9th to isth 9th. I. Browning's The Statue and the Bust, ii: 273-284 II. The Lost Leader, 12:289-290 III. The Patriot, 11:290-291 loth. Albert Bigelow Paine, b. 10 Jl. 1861 L Mis' Smith, 8-Pt.II :77 F. P. Dunne, ("Mr. Doolev"), b. 10 Jl. 1867 II. Home Life of Geniuses, 9-Pt. 11:56-62' III. The City as a Summer Resort, 9-Pt.II:i38- 144 Iith. I. Burdette's Vacation of Mustapha, 8-Pt. ' T 1-7 L 3-7 II. The Legend of Mimir, 8-Pt.1 :68-69 III. The .'\rtless Prattle of Childhood, 7-Pt.II: 106-112 IV. Rheumatism Movement Cure, 8-Pt. 11:37- 43 I2th. B. P. Shillaber, b. 12 Jl. 1814 I. Fancy Diseases, 7-Pt.I:32 II. Bailed Out, 7-Pt-I:33 III. Masson's My Subway Guard Friend, 9- Pt.I:i40 13th. I. Mukerji's Judgment of Indra, 18:257 14th. The Bastille Destroyed, 14 Jl. 1789 I. Carlyle's The Flight to Varennes from "The French Revolution," 2-Pt.I;87-iio Guide to Daily Reading 89 15th. Battle of Chateau Thierry, 15 Jl. 1918 I. Grenfell's Into Battle, 15:217 II. Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 10:85- 87 III. Ode to a Nightingale, 13:132-135 IV. Ode, 13:135-137 V. Ode to Psyche, 13:139-141 VI. Fancy, 13:143-146 90 Guide to Daily Reading Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity; the refuge and comfort of ad- versity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; com- panions at night, in travelling, in the country. — Cicero. July i6th to 22nd i6th. RoALD Amundsen, b. i6 Jl. 1872 I. Amundsen, i6-Pt. 11:147-151 II, Masefield's Sea Fever, 12:334 17th. I. Keats's Robin Hood, 14: 146-148 II. Sonnets, 13:223-227 III. Shelley's Hymn of Pan, 12:44-45 IV. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 14:61-73 . ^ . . V. Stanzas Written m Dejection, 14:73-75 i8th. William Makepeace Thackeray, b. 18 JI. 1811 I. De Pinibus, i-Pt. 1:143-157 II. Ballads, i-Pt.I:i6i-i64 19th. I. Derby's Illustrated Newspaper, 7-Pt.II: 11-19 II. Tushmaker's Toothpuller, 7-Pt.II:S3-56 III. Burdette's Romance of the Carpet, 9-Pt. I: 38-40 20th. Jean Ingelow, d. 20 Jl. 1897 I. High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 10:263-269 II. Shelley's The Cloud, 14:90-93 III. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 13:121-124 IV. To a Skylark, 13: 124-129 V. Arethusa, 11:140-143 Guide to Daily Reading 91 2ist. Robert Burns, d. 21 JI. 1796 I. Thoughts, 15:65-67 II. Shelley's Love's Philosophy, 12:160 III. I Fear Thy Kisses, 12:161 rV. To , 12:161-162 V. To , 12:162 22nd. I. Shelley's Ozymandias of Egypt, 13:222-223 II. Song, 12:225-226 III. When the Lamp Is Shattered, 12:274-27, IV. Tennyson's The Gardener's Daughter, 11:17-28 V. The Deserted House, 15:23-24 92 Guide to Daily Reading Histories make men wise; poels, zvitty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Bacon. July 2 3rd to 29TH 2jrd. U. S. Grant, d. 23 JI. 1885 I. Lincoln to Grant, 5-Pt.I:i2i II. Tennyson's Ulysses, 14:175-177 III. Ask Me No More, 12:180 IV. The Splendor Falls, 12:181 V. Come into the Garden, Maud, 12:182-184 VI. Sir Galahad, 14: 184-186 24th. John Newton, b. 24 Jl. 1725. I. The Quiet Heart, 15:170 II. Tennyson's The Miller's Daughter, 1 1 :3 1-4C III. The Oak, 14:41 IV. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, 10: 51-53 V. Song, 12:54-55 25th. I. Tennyson's The Throstle, 12:55-56 II. A Small, Sweet Idyl, 14: 79-80 III. Merlin and the Gleam, 11:122-127 IV. The Lotos-Eaters, 14:135-143 V. Mariana, 14:162-164 26th. I. Stevenson's Markheim, 20-Pt.I:i03-i29 27th. Thomas Campbell, b. 27 Jl. 1777 I. The Soldier's Dream, 10:186-187 II. Lord UUin's Daughter, 10:259-261 III. How Delicious Is the \\ inning, 12:165-166 IV. To the Evening Star, 12:47 Guide to Daily Reading 93 28th. Abraham Cowley, d. 28 Jl. 1667 I. A Supplication, 13:59-60 II. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey, 15:80-86 John Graham of Claverhouse Viscount Dundee, d. 28 Jl. 16S9 III. Scott's Bonny Dundee, 10:183-186 29th. Don Marquis, h. 29 Jl. 1878 I. Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomam iac, 9-Pt.I:i43 Booth Tarkington, b. 29 Jl. 1869 II. Overwhelming Saturday, 22-Pt.I:ioi 94 Guide to Daily Reading Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wis- dom is humble that he knows no more. Books are nol seldom talismans and spells. COWPER. July 30TH to August sth 30th. Joyce Kilmer, killed in action, 30 Jl. 1918 I. A Ballad of Three, 10:311 II. Trees, 12:329 III. Noyes's The May Tree, 12:327 31st. I. Tennyson's Song of the Brook, 14:99-101 II. That 't Were Possible, 12:185-188 III. Morte d'Arthur, 11:204-215 IV. Sweet and Low, 12:249-250 V. Will, 14:259-260 Ag. 1st I. Tennyson's Rizpah, 10:279-285 II. The Children's Hospital, 11:310-315 III. Break, Break, Break, 12:320 IV. In the Valley of Cauteretz, 12:321 V. Wages, 12:321-322 VI. Crossing the Bar, 12:324 VII. Flower in the Crannied Wall, 13:280 2nd. I. Browning's Love Among the Ruins, i;: 28-31 II. My Star, 12:58-59 III. From Pippa Passes, 12:59 IV. The Boy and the Angd, 11:133-137 V. Epilogue, 15: 143-144 3rd. H. C. BuNNER, b. 3 Ag. 1855 I. Behold the Deeds! 7-Pt. 11:123-125 II. The Love Letters of Smith, 8-Pt.I:89-i04 Guide to Daily Reading 95 4th. Percy Bysshe Shelley, b. 4 Ag. 1792 I. The Sensitive Plant, 11:54-68 II. To Night, 12:43-44 III. The Indian Serenade, 12:159-160 5th. Guy De Maupassant, b. 5 Ag. 1850 I. The Piece of String, 21-Pt. 11:96-106 II. The Necklace, 2i-Pt. 1:94-106 96 Guide to Daily Reading Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. De- mosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. — LoRX) Macaulay. August 6th to i2th 6th. Alfred Tennyson, b. 6 Ag. 1809 I. Alfred Tennyson, 17-Pt. 1:38-42 II. Dora, 11:11-17 III. The Lady of Shalott, 10:73-79 7th. Joseph Rodman Drake, b. 7 Ag. 1795 L Halleck's Joseph Rodman Drake, 15:104- II. Browning's Prospice, 15:145-146 III. Pied Piper, 11:163-173 IV. Meeting at Night, 12:189-190 V. Parting at Morning, 12:190 8th. Sara Teasdale, b. 8 Ag. 1884 I. Teasdale's Bhic Squills, 12:327 II The Return, 12:338 III. Browning's Misconceptions, 12:190-191 IV. Rabbi Ben Ezra, 14:191-199 9th. John Dryden, b. 9 Ag. 163 1 I. Alexander's Feast, 13:63-70 II. Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! 12:140-141 III. The Elixir, 15:150-151 IV. Discipline, 15.151-152 V. The Pulley, 15:153-154 loth. Witter Bynner, b. 10 Ag. 1881 I. Sentence, 13:295 II. Browning's Soul, 14:199-221 Guide to Daily Reading 97 III. Herrick's To Blossoms, 12:33-34 IV. To DafFodils, 12:34 V. To Violets, 12:35 nth. I. Herrick's To Meadows, 12:35-36 II. Lacrimae, 15:41-42 III. The Primrose, 12:124 rV. Litany, 15:158-160 ^ , „ . „, V. Lowell's Madonna of the Lvenmg blow- ers, 1 1 :3 19 1 2th. James Russell Lowell, d. 12 Ag. 1891 I. Rhoecus, 11:127-133 II. The Courtin', 11.230-233 III. The Yankee Recruit, 7-Pt.I:S2-6o 98 Guide to Daily Reading Give us a house furnished with books rather than with furniture. Both if you can, but books at any rate! — Henry Ward Beecher. August 13TH to 19TH 13th. Battle of Blenheim, 13 Ag. 1704 I. Southey's After Blenheim, 10:192-194 II. De Quincey's Going Down with Victory, 4-Pt. II: 107-119 14th. John Fletcher, d. 14 Ag. 1785 I. Love's Emblems, 12:29-30 II. Hear, Ye Ladies, 12:132-133 III. Melancholy, 12:278-279 IV. Lodge's Rosalind's Madrigal, 12:83-84 V. Rosalind's Description, 12:84-86 15th. Thomas De Quincey, b. 15 Ag. 1785 I. The Pains of Opium, 4-Pt.II:73-ioo l6th. Baroness Nairne (Carolina Oliphant), b. 16 Ag. 1766 I. The Laird o' Cockpen, 11:251-252 II. The Land o' the Leal, 12:311-312 III. Gather's Grandmither, Think Not I For- get, 14:313 17th. I. Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers, 19-Pt. 11:1-58 18th. I. Longfellow's Rain in Summer, 14:96-99 II. Herrick's Corinna's Going a-Maying, 12: 30-33 III. Shelley's Ode to the West Wmd, 13:129- 132 19th. Battle of Otterburn, 19 Ag. 1388 I. The Battle of Otterburn, 10:171-176 Guide to Daily Reading 99 Books make up no small part of human happiness. — Frederick. The Great (in youth). My latest passion will be Jor literature. — Frederick The Great '(in old age). August 2oth to 26th 20th. Marco Bozzakis, fell 20 Ag. 1823 I. Halleck's Marco Bozzaris, 11:187-191 II, Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, 11:107-121 2ist. Mary Mapes Dodge, d. 21 Ag. 1905 I. Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, 7- Pt. 1 1:20-24 II. Lowell's Letter from a Candidate, 7-Pt. II: 29-32 f2nd. Royal Standard Raised at Nottingham, 22 Ag. 1642 I. Browning's Cavalier Tunes, 12:205-208 II. Milton's II Penseroso, 14:14-19 III. Lycidas, 15:52-58 23rd. Edgar Lee Masters, b. 23 Ag. 1869 I. Isaiah Beethoven, 14:308 II. Hardy's She Hears the Storm, 14:312 III. Wheelock's The Unknown Beloved, 10:309 24th. Robert Herrick, baptized 24 Ag. 1591 I. To Dianeme, 12:123 II. Upon Julia's Clothes, 12:124 III. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 12:125 IV. Delight in Disorder, 12:125-126 V. To Anthea, 12:126-127 VI. To Daisies, 12:127 VII. The Night Piece, 12:128 lOO Guide to Daily Reading 2Sth. Rrft Harte, b. 25 Ag. 1839 I. Plain Language from Truthful James, 11: 234-236 II. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 20-Pt. 1:30-46 III. Ramon, 11:285-288 IV. fler Letter, 8-Pt.l:ii3-ii5 26th. I. Holley's An Unmarried Female, 8-Pt.II: 26-36 Guide to Daily Reading loi We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by covi^ panions. — Henry Fielding. August 27TH to September 2nd 27th. I. Scott's Coronach, 15:33-34 II. Lochinvar, 10:36-39 III. A Weary Lot Is Thine, 10:40-41 • IV. County Guy, 12:154-155 V. Hail to the Chief, 12:203-204 28th. Leo Tolstoi, b. 28 Ag. 1828 I. The Prisoner in the Caucasus, 19-Pt.I: 141-186 29th. OliverWendell Holmes, i. 29 Ag. iSog\d. I. The Ballad of the Oysterman, 7-Pt.1 : 105- 106 II. My Aunt, 7-Pt. 1:23-24 III. Foreign Correspondence, 7-Pt.I:77-8o IV. The Chambered Nautilus, 14:108-109 The Royal George lost 29 Ag. 1782 V. Cowper's On the Loss of the Royal George, 10:148-149 30th. I. Scott's Brignall Banks, 10:41-43 II. Hunting Song, 12:230-231 III. Soldier Rest, 12:277-278 IV. Proud Maisie, 10:258 V. Harp of the North, 12:286-287 ,/st Theophile Gautier, b. 31 Ag. 1811 I. The Mummy's Foot, 19-Pt. I: 90-108 S. ist. Simeon Ford, b. 31 Ag. 1855 I. At a Turkish Bath, 9-Pt. 11:74-77 102 Guide to Daily Reading II. The Discomforts of Travel, 9-Pt. II: 123- 127 III. Boyhood in a New England Hotel, 9-Pt, 1:123-126 2nd. Austin Dobson, d. 2 S. 1921 I. Ballad of Prose and Rhyme, 12:335 II. Carman's Vagabond Song, 12:330 III. Colum's Old Woman of the Roads, 14:311 Iv. Peabody's House and the Road, 12:344 V. Daly's Inscription for a Fireplace, 13:294 Guide to Daily Reading 103 Old zvood best to burn; old wine to drink; old friends to trust; and old authors to read. — Alonzo of Aragon. September 3RD to qth 3rd. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenieff, d. 3 S. 1883 I. The Song of Triumphaat Love, 19-Pt.I: 109-140 II. Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept, 3, 1802, 13: 211 4th. Sir Richard Grenville, d. 4 (?) S. 1591 I. Tennyson's The Revenge, 10:222-229 II. Wordsworth's To the Skylark, 12:40-41 III. On a Picture of Peele Castle, 14:44-47 5th. I. Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public Schools, 7-Pt.II:i44- 147 II. Emerson's Labor, 2-Pt. 1:138-145 6th. I. Wordsworth's Resolution and Indepen- dence, 11:48-54 II. Yarrow Unvisited, 14:53755 III. Intimations of Immortality, 13:89-96 rV. Ode to Duty, 13:96-98 V. The Small Celandine, 14:112-113 7th. I. Milton's Echo, 12:25-26 II. Sabrina, 12:26-27 III. The Spirit's Epilogue, 12:27-29 IV. On Time, 13:52-53 V. At a Solemn Music, 13:53-54 8th. I. Wordsworth's Lucy, 15:114-118 II. Hart-Leap Well, 10:134-1^2 Siegfried Sassoon, b. 8 b. 1886 III. Dreamers, 15:223 I04 Guide to Daily Reading 9th. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, drotvnedg S. 1583 I. Longfellow's Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 10: i6o-i6i Battle of Flodden Field, 9 S. 1513 II. F.lliot's A Lament for Flodden, 10:251-252 III. Wordsworth's Stepping Westwartf, 14: 158-159 IV. She Was A Phantom of Delighp, 14:159- 160 v.- Scorn Not the Sonnet, 13:175-176 Guide to Daily Reading 105 To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. — Henry Peacham. September ioth to i6th loth. I. Wordsworth's Nuns Fret Not, 13:175 II. Lines, 14:253-255 III. We Are Seven, 10:252-255 nth. James Thomson, i. ii S. 1700 I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209 II. CoUins's On the Death of Thomson, 15 :S9- 60 III. Lowell's A Winter Ride, 12:331 rV. MacKaye's The Automobile, 13:290 i2th. Charles Dudley Warner, b. 12 S. 1829 I. Plumbers, 8-Pt. 1:150-15 1 II. My Summer in a Garden, 7-PtT:6i-74 in. How J Killed a Bear, 9-Pt.I:59-70 13th. General Ambrose Everett Burnside, d. 13 S. 1881 I. Lincoln's Letter to Burnside, 5-Pt.I:ii8 n. CoUins's Ode Written in 1745, 15:34 III. The Passions, 13:81-85 IV. Ode to Evening, 13:85-88 V. Dirge in Cymbeline, 15:112-113 14th. Duke of Wellington, d. 14 S. 1852 I. Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 13:151-161 Dante, d. 14 S. 1321 II. Longfellow's Dante and Divina Comedia, 13:239-244 III. Parsons's On a Bust of Dante, 14:152-154 io6 Guide to Daily Reading iSth. I. Wordsworth's The Solitary Reaper, 14: 160-161 II. Jonson's Hymn to Diana, 12:14 III. Pindaric Ode, 13:37-42 IV. Epitaph, 15:46-47 V. On Elizabeth L. H., 15:47 i6th. Alfred Noyes, b. 16 S. 1880 I. Old Grey Squirrel, 14:306 John Gay, baptized 16 S. 1685 II. Black-Eyed Susan, 10:32-34 ■r.. Charles Battell Loomis, b. 16 S, 1861 III. O-U-G-H, 7-Pt.I:i43 Guide to Daily Reading 107 It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have. „ — Seneca. September 17TH to 23RD 17th. I. Turner's The Harvest Moon, 13:249 II. Letty's Globe, 13 :245-246 III. Man,-, A Reminiscence, 13:246-247 rV'. Her First-born, 13:247-248 V. The Lattice at Sunrise, 13:248 i8th. Dr. Samuel Johnson, b. 18 S. 1709 I. Macaulay's Dr. Samuel Johnson, 2-Pt.II: 39-79 19th. Hartley Coleridge, b. 19 S. 1796 I. Song, 12:166-167 II. Sonnets, 13:227-230 III. Coleridge's Frost at Midnight, 14:22-25 IV. Love, 10:44-47 V. France: An Ode, 13:99-103 20th. William Haines Lytle, d. 20 S. 1863 I. Antonv to Cleopatra, 14:238-240 II. Hood'sThe Death Bed, 15:131 III. Autumn, 13:148-150 IV. Ruth, 14:157-158 V. Fair Ines, 12:168-169 2ist. Sir Walter Scott, J. 21 S. 1832 I. Sir Walter Scott, 17-Pt. 1:65-73 II. The Maid of Neidpath, 10:39-40 III. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, 12:201-203 IV. Wandering Willie's Tale, 2O-Pt.II:7S-i03 22nd. I. Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps Up, 13:274 II. Laodamia, 11:143-150 III. There Was a Boy, 14:156-157 io8 Guide to Daily Reading 23rd. Battle of Monterey, 23 S. 1846 I. lloH'man's Monterey, 10:206-207 II. Lovelace's Tlie Grasshopper, 12:30 III. To Lucasta, 12: 129-130 IV. To Althea, 12:130-131 V. To Lucasta, on Going to thc^Wars, 12:198 Guide to Daily Reading 109 The words of the good are like a staff in a slippery place. — Hindu Saying. September 24TH to 30TH 24th. I. Noyes's Creation, 15:204 35th. Felicia Dorothea Hemans, b. 25 S. 1793 I. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 10:151- II. Poe's Annabel Lee, 10:56-57 III. To Helen, 12:176 IV. The Bells, 12:234-238 V. For Annie, 12:305-308 r')th. I. Holmes's Latter-Day Warnings, 7-Pt.I: 34-35 „ , II. Contentment, 7-PtT:3S-38 III. An Aphorism, 8-Pt.II:44-S2 IV. Music Pounding, 7-PtT:8o-8i 27th. I. Holmes's The Height of the Ridiculous, 8-Pt.I:ii8-li9 II. The Last Leaf, 14:167-168 III. The One-Hoss Shay, 1 1 :236-24i iSth I. Motley's Haunting Beauty of Strychnine, 9-Pt.I.i35 II. Guitcrman's Strictly Germ-Proof, 7-Pt.I: 141 III. Burgess's Lazy Roof, 8-Pt.I:i49 IV. My Feet,8-Pt.I:i49 ZQth. !1£mile Zola, d. 29 S. 1902 I. The Death of Olivier Becaille, 21-Pt.I: no Guide to Daily Reading 30th. I. Lowell's Without and Within, 8- Pt. 11:72- , 73 II. She Came and Went, 15:134 III. The Sower, 14:144-145 IV. Sonnets, 13:251-253 V. What Rabbi Jehosha Said, 14:282-283 Guide to Daily Reading iii If you are reading a piece of thoroughly good literature. Baron Rothschild may possibly be as well occupied as you — he is certainly not better occupied. — P. G. Hamerton. October ist to tth 1st. Louis Untermyer, b. i O. 1885 I. Only of Thee and Me, 12:339 II. Morris's October, 14:105-106 III. Banner's Candor, 8-Pt.I:ii-i2 2nd. French Fleet destroyed off Boston, Octo- ber, 1746 I. Longfellow's Ballad of the French Fleet, 10:202-204 II. Mrs. Browning's Sleep, 15:21-23 III. The Romance of the Swan's Nesr, 10:79- 83 IV. A Dead Rose, 12:191-192 V. A Man's Requirements, 12:192-194 3rd. William Morris, d. 3 O. 1896 I. Summer Dawn, 12:172 IL The Nymph's Song to Hylas, 12:173-174 III. The Voice of Toil, 12:290-292 IV. The Shameful Death, 10:277-279 4th. Henry Carey, d. 4 O. 1743 I. Sally in Our Alley, 12:42-144 II. Van Dyke's The Proud Lady, 10:296 5th. I. Poe's Ulalume, 11:302-306 II. Arnold's The Last Word, 15:43 III. A Nameless Epitaph, 15:48 IV. Thyrsis, 15:86-97 V. Requicscat, 15:120-121 112 Guide to Daily Reading 6th. George Henry Boker, b. 6 O. i8'i3 I. The Black Regiment, 10:207-210 II. Lamb's Letter to Wordsworth, J-PtJI; 129-132 III. Letter to Wordsworth, 5-Pt.1 1: 136-143 IV. Letter to Wordsworth,- 5-Pt. 11:143-145 7th. Sir Philip Sidney, d. 7 O. 1586 I. The Bargain, 12:87 II. Astrophel and Stella, 13:178-180 in. To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul, 13:181 Edgar Allan Poe, d. 7 O. 1849 rV. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, r*"^*. I:i-53 I Guide to Daily Reading 113 A little before you go to sleep read something that is ex- quisite and worth remembering; and contemplate upon it tit'l you fall asltep. — Erasmus- October 8th to 14TH 8th. John Hay, b. 8 O. 1838 I. Little Breeches, 7-Pt.I:45-47 Edmund Clarence Stedman, i. 8 O. 1833. II. The Diamond Wedding, 7-Pt.I:i07-ii4 9th. S. W. GiLi.iLAN, b. O. 1869 I. Finnigin to Flannigan, 9-Pt. 1:92-93 II. Dunne's On Expert Testimony, 9-Pt.II:i3- 16 III. Work and Sport, 9-Pt.II:87-92 IV. Avarice and Generosity, 9-Pt. 11:144-146 loth. William H. Seward, d. 10 O. 1872 I. Lincoln's Letter to Seward, 5-Pt.I:ill-li2 IL Walker's Medicine Show, 18:213 llth. I. Keats's To Autumn, 13:142-143 II. Carew's Epitaph, 15:48 III. Disdain Returned, 12:133-134 IV. Song, 12:134 V. To His Inconstant Mistress, 12:135 12th. Robert E. Lee, d. 12 O. 1S70 I. Robert E. Lee, i6-Pt. 11:62-73 Dinah Mulock Craik, d. 12 O. 1887. II. Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12:310-311 13th. Sir Henry Irving, d. 13 O. 1905 I. Sir Henr>' Irving, 17- Pt. 11:39-47 114 Guide to Daily Reading 14th. Josh Billings (H, W. Shaw), d. 14 O. 1885 I. Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats, 7-Pt.I: 48-51 II. To Correspondents, 9-Pt.I:73-74 III. Russell's Origin of the "Banjo, 9-Pt.I:79-82 Guide to Daily Reading 115 And when a man is at home and happy with a book, sitting by his fireside, he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness. Let him read now and then to his wife and children. — H. Friswell. October 15TH to 2ist 15th. I. Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, 12:272-273 II. Shakespeare's Over Hill, Over Dale, 12:19 III. Poe's Assignation, 4-Pt.I:8i-ioi l6th. I. Nye's How to Hunt the Fox, 8-Pt. 1:70-78 II. A Fatal Thirst, 7-Pt. 11:148-150 III. On Cyclones, 9-Pt.1 :83-85 17th. William Vaughn Moody, d. 17 O. 1910 I. Gloucester Moors, 11:320 i8th. Thomas Love Peacock, b. 18 O. 1785 I. Three Men of Gotham, 12:257-258 II. Shakespeare's Silvia, 12:91-92 III. O Mistress Mine, 12:92 IV. Take, O Take Those Lips Away, 12:93 V. Love, 12:93-94 19th. Leigh Hunt, b. 19 O. 1784 I. Jenny Kissed Me, 12:158 II. Abou Ben Adhem, 11:121-122 CoRNWALLis surrendered at Yorktown, 19 O. 1781 III. Tennyson's England and America in 1782, 12:209-210 20th. I. Shakespeare's The Fairy Life, 12:20 II. When Icicles Hang by the Wall, 12:22 III. Fear No More the Heat of the Sun, 15:37 IV. A Sea Dirge, 15:38 Ii6 Guide to Daily Reading 2ISt. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, b. h O. 1772 I. Youth and Age, 1^:264-265 II. Kiibla Khan, 14:80-82 III. Thompson's Arab Love Song, 12:339 Guide to Daily Reading 117 / tvisi all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato. Alas.' good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. — Roger Ascham. October 22ND to 28th 22nd. I. Shakespeare's Crabbed Age and Youth, 12:94 II. On A Day, Alack the Day, 12:95 III. Come Away, Come Away, Death, 12:96 rV. Rittenhouse's Ghostly Galley, 13:296 V. O'Hara's Atropos, 15:199 23rd. I. Townsend's Chimmie Fadden Makes Friends, 9-Pt. 1:105-109 II. Tompkins's Sham, i8:i6g 24th. I. Tarkington's Beauty and the Jacobin, 18:19 25th. Thomas Babington Macaulay, b. 25 O. 1800 I. Country Gentlemen, 2-Pt.II:i lo-i 19 II. Polite Literature, 2-Pt. 11:119-132 Battle of Balaclava, 25 O. 1854. III. Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade, 10:217-219 IV. Tennyson's Charge of the Heavy Brigade. 10:219-221 26th. I. Vaughan's Friends Departed, 15: lo-ii II. Peace, 15: 160-161 III. The Retreat, 15: 161-162 IV. The World, 14: 245-247 27th. Theodore Roosevelt, b. 27 O. 1858 I. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, i6-Pt.II: 74-94 «8th. I. 2^1a's Attack on the Mill, 20-Pt. 1:47-102 ii8 Guide to Daily Reading / never ihink of the name of Gutenberg without feelings of veneration and homage. — G. S. Phillips. October 29TH to November 4TH 29th. John Keats, b. 29 O. 1795 I. Ode on a Grecian Urn, 13: 137-139 II. The Eve of St. Agnes, 1 1 :68-83 30th. Adelaide Anne Procter, b. 30 O. 1825 I. A Doubting Heart, 12:312-313 II. Marlowe's Passionate Shepherd, 12:97-98 III. Raleigh's Her Reply, 12:98-99 IV. The Pilgrimage, 12:314-316 31st. Hallowe'en I. Burns's Tarn O'Shanter, 11:253-260 N. 1st. I. Bryant's The Death of the Flowers, 14; 118-120 II. The Battle-Field, 15:26-28 III. The Evening Wind, 12:50-52 IV. To a Waterfowl, 13:147-148 2nd. I. Arnold's Rugby Chapel, 15: 97-104 II. Campion's Cherry-Ripe, 12:103 III. Follow Your Saint, 12: 103-104 IV. Vobiscum est lope, 12:105 3rd. William Cullen Bryant, b. 3 N. 1794 I. The Mosquito, 8-Pt. 11:58-61 II. To the Fringed Gentian, 14:114-1x5 III. Song of Marion's Men, 10:199-201 IV. Forest Hymn, 14:34-38 4th. Eugene Field, d. 4 N. 1895 I. Baked Beans and Culture, 9-Pt. 1:86-89 II. The Little Peach, 8-Pt.I:86 III. Dibdin's Ghost, 9-Pt. 11:44-46 IV. Dutch Lullaby, 12:250-251 Guide to Daily Reading 119 To divert myself from a troublesome Fancy 'tis but to run to my books . . . they always receive me with the same kiiidness. — Montaigne. November 5th to iith Sth. I. Lowell's What Mr. Robinson Thinks, 7-Pt. ' 1:115-117 II. Field's The Truth About Horace, 9-Pt.I: 17-18 III. The Cyclopeedy, 9-Pt.I:i27-i34 6th. HoLMAN F. Day, h. 6 N. 1865 I. Tale of the Kennebec Mariner, 9-Pt. II: 10-12 II. Grampy Sings a Song, 9-Pt. 11:64-66 III. Cure for Homesickness, 9-Pt. 11:129-130 IV. The Night After Christmas (Anonymous), 9-Pr. 1:75-76 7th. I. Gibson's The Fear, 15:216 II. Back, 15:216 III. The Return, 15:217 Sth. John Milton, d. 8 N. 1674 I. Sonnets, 13:198-205 II. L'.'Mlegro, 14:9-14 HI. On Milton by Dryden, 13:272 9th. I. Lincoln's Letter to Astor, Roosevelt, and Sands, 9 N. 1863, 5-Pt.I:ii9 II. Arnold's Saint Brandan, 11:137-140 III. Longing, 12:188-189 IV. Sonnets, 13: 253-256 loth. Henry Van Dyke, b. 10 N. 1852 I. Salute to the Trees, 14:290 I20 Guide to Daily Reading II. The Standard Bearer, 10:307 Vachel Lindsay, b. 10 N. 1879 III. Abraham Lincohi Walks at Midnight, 14', 298 lith. Armistice Day, 11 N. 1918 I. Wharton's The Young Dead, 15:213 II. Meynell's Dead Harvest, 14:292 III. Tennyson's Locksley Hall, 14:223-238 Guide to Daily Reading 121 We have knotvn Book-love to he independent of the author and lurk in a jew charmed words traced upon the title-page by a once familiar hand. — Anonymous. November I2TH to i8th I2th. Richard Baxter, b. 12 N. 1615 I. A Hymn of Trust, 15:164-165 II. Arnold's The Future, 14:275-278 III. Palladium, 14:278-279 rV. The Forsaken Merman, 11:291-296 13th. Robert Louis Stevenson, b. 13 N. 1850 I. Robert Louis Stevenson, 17-Pt. 1:133-146 II. Foreign Lands, 12:248-249 III. Requiem, 15:142 14th. Booker T. Washington, d. 14 N. 1915 L Booker T. Washington, 17-Pt. 1:172-190 15th. William Cowper, b. 26 N. 173 1 I. To Mary, 12:243-245 II. Boadicea, 10:181-182 III. Verses, 14:221-223 IV. Diverting History of John Gilpin, 11:241- 251 16th. I. Cone's Ride to the Lady, 10:311 II. Hewlett's Soldier, Soldier, 15:212 17th. Lucknow relieved by Campbell, 17 N. 1857 I. Robert Lowell's The Relief of Lucknow, 11:18^-187 -■ » II. Roberts s The Maid, 10:305 l8th. I. Joseph Conrad, 17-Pt. 1:147-166 122 Guide to Daily Reading Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. ^— Lord Bacon. November iqth to 25TH 19th. I. Lincoln's Gettyburg Address, 5" Pt.I: 107- 108 20th. Thomas Chatterton, b. 20 N. 1752 L Minstrel's Song, 15:40-41 Charles Graham Halpine, b. 20 N. 1829 IL Irish Astronomy, 8-Pt.II:79-8o in. Davis's The First Piano in a Mining- Camp, 9- Pt.i :34-44 IV. Dunne's On Gold Seekmg, 9-Pt.I:99-io2 2ist. Voltaire, ^. 21 N. 1694 I. Jeannot and Colin, 22-Pt.I:i-i6 Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Corn- wall), b. 21 N 1787 II. The Sea, 12:72-73 III. The Poet's Song to His Wife, 12:242-243 IV. A Petition to Time, 12:252 22nd. St. Cecilia's Day, Nov, 22nd. I. Dryden's Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 13 :6r- 63 II. O May I Join the Choir Invisible, 15:185- 186 Jack London, d. 22 N. 1916 III. Jan the Unrepentant, 22-Pt.II:i36 23rd. I. Carryl's The Walloping Window Blind, 9-Pt. 11:35-36 II. Marble's The Hoosier and the Salt-pile, 8-Pt.lI:62-67 Guide to Daily Reading 123 24th. I. Arnold's Growing Old, 14:281-282 II. Lyly's Spring's Welcome, 12:15 III. Cupid and Campaspe, 12:86 IV. Lindsay's Auld Robin Gray, 10:30-32 2Sth. I. Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, 3-Pt. n:37-';7 124 Guide to Daily Reading Aloniaigne zvith his shcrpskin blistered, And Ilowcll the worse for wear. And the worm-drilled JesuiC^ Ilo-att, And the little old cropped Moliere — And the Burton I bought fur a florin, And the Rabelais foxed and flea' d — For the others I nmer have opened, But those are the ones I read. — Austin Dobson. November 26th to December 2nd 26th. Coventry Patmore, d. 26 N. 1896 I. To the Unknown Eros, 13:169-171 II. The Toys, 15:140-141 III. Lamb's The Old Familiar Faces, 15:73-74 IV. Hester, 15:75-76 27th. I. Wordsworth's Influence of Natural Ob- jects, 14:251-253 RiDGELEY ToRRENCE, b. 2J N. I875 TI. Torrence's Evensong, 12:346 III. Burt's Resurgam, 13:292 28th. William Blake, b. 28 N. I75> I. The Tiger, 12:42-43 II. Piping Down the Valleys, 12:246 III. T^he (iolden Door, 15:172 Washington Irving, d. 28 N. 1859 IV. Rip Van Winkle, i9-Pt.II:7i-96 29th. Louisa May Alcott, b. 29 N. 1832 I. Street Scenes in Washington, 8- Pt. 11:74- 76 JOHN C Neihardt, married 29 N. 1908 ti. Envoi, 15:200 in. Cheney's Happiest Heart, 14:318 !V. Dargan's There's Rosemary, 13:287 Guide to Daily Reading 125 30th. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), b- 30 N. 1835 I. Colonel Mulberry Sellers, 7-Pt.II:3i-40 II. The Notorious Jumping Frog, 7-Pt.I:i22- 131 D. 1st. I. Keats's In a Drear-Nighted December, 12:268 II. Gray's Progress of Poesy, 13:76-80 III. Doyle's Private of the BufFs, 11:284-285 2nd. I. Lowell's The First Snow-Fall, 15:135-136 II. Daniel's Love Is a Sickness, 12:108 in. Delia, 13:181-182 IV. Darley's Song, 12:170-171 126 Guide to Daily Reading When evening has arrived, I return home, and go into my study. . . . For hours together, the miseries of life no longer annoy me; I forget every vexation; I do not fear poverty; for I have altogether transferred myself to those with whom I hold converse. — Machiavelli. December 3rd to qth 3rd. George B. McCi-ellan, b. 3 D. 1826 I. Lincoln's Letter to McClellan, 5-Pt.I: 109-110 Battle of Hohenlinden, 3 D. 1800 IL Campbell's Hohenlinden, 10:188-189 Robert Louis Stevenson, d. 3 D. 1894 in. Providence and the Guitar, 19-Pt.II: 96- 138 4th. L Sudermann's The Gooseherd, 20-Pt.II: 62-74 5th. Christina Georgina Rossetti, b. 5 D. 1830 I. One Certainty, 13:265 n. Up-Hill, 12:322-323 in. Hayne's In Harbor, 15:142-143 IV. Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon, 13:265-266 V. Goldsmith's When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, 13:273 6th. R. H. Barham, b. 6 D. 1788 I. The Jackdaw of Rheims, 11:173-179 ( 7th. Cale Young Rice, b. 7 D. 1872 I. Chant of the Colorado, 14:291 Allan Cunningham, b. 7 D. 1784 II. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, 12:73-74 Guide to Daily Reading 127 III. Hame, Hame, Hame, 12:309-310 IV. Bailey's After the Funeral, 8-Pt.I:42-44 V. What He Wanted It For, 9-Pt.I:90-9i 8th. I. A Visit to Brigham Young, 9-Pt.I:47-S2 9th. Stephen Phillips, d. 9 D. 1915 I. Harold before Senlac, 14:315 128 Guide to Daily Reading This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to tlie greatest, the pure.U, and the most perfect pleas- ures that God has prepared for his creatures. . . . It lasts when all other pleasures fade. — Trollope. December ioth to i6th loth. Emily Dickinson, l>. lo D. 1830 I. Our Share of Night to Bear, 13:282 II. Heart, We Will Forget Him, 13:282 III. Ruskin's Mountain Glory, i-Pt.II:S9-69 nth. I. Webster's Reply to Hayne, C-Pt. 1:63-105 I2th. I. Herford's Cold, 9-Pt.II:9 II. Child's Natural History, 9-Pt.II:37-39 III. Metaphysics, 9-Pt.II:i28 IV. The End of theWorld,9-Pt.I:i30-i22 13th. William Drummond, b. 13 D. 1585 I. Invocation, 12:24-25 II. "I Know That All Beneath the Moon Decays," 13:196-197 III. For the Baptist, 13:197 IV. To His Lute, 13:198 V. Browne's The Siren's Song, 12:23 VI. A Welcome, 12:111-112 VII. My Choice, 12:112-113 14th. Charles Wolfk, b. 14 D. 1791 I. The Burial of Sir John Moore, 15:31-33 II. Clough's In a Lecture Room, 14:272 III. Qua Cursum Ventus, 12:317-318 IV. Davis's Souls, 14:317 15th. I. Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portu- guese, 13:232-239 Guide to Daily Reading 129 i6th. George Santayana, b. i6 D. 1863 I. " As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room," 13:287 II. MacMillan's Shadowed Star, 18:273 I30 Guide to Daily Reading JFh^7i there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou may si have a company of honest old fellows in ihetr leathern jackets in thy study which will find thee excellent divertisement at home. — Thomas Fuller. December 17TH to 23RD 17th. John Greenleaf Whittier, b. 17 D. 1807 I. Amy Wentworth, 10:53-56 II. The Barefoot Boy, 14:169-172 III. My Psalm, 15:189-191 IV. The Eternal Goodness, 15:192-196 V. Telling the Bees, 11:308-310 l8th. Philip Freneau, d. 18 D. 1832 I. The Wild Honeysuckle, 14:113-114 L. G. C. A. Chatrian, ^. 18 D. 1826 II. The Comet, 20-Pt.II:i04-ii4 19th. Bayard Taylor, d. 19 D. 1878 I. Paiabras Grandiosas, 9-Pt.I:58 II. Bedouin Love Song, 12:174-175 III. The Song of the Camp, 11:288-290 rV. W. B. Scott's Glenkindie, 10:48-51 20th. I. Ford's The Society Reporter's Christmas, 8-Pt.I:57-65 II. The Dying Gag, 9-Pt.II:ii9-i22 2ist. Giovanni Boccaccio, > Aytoun, Wii liam Komondstounb The Execution of Montrose 10 270 Bailey, J. M. After the Funeral 8-rt. I 42 What He Wanted It For 9-Pt. I 90 Ballard, Harlan Hoce In the Catacombs 9-Pt. I 77 Balzac, Honors De A Passion in the Desert zi-Pt.H 107 Bakdauld, Anna Letitl\ Life 14 260 Barham, Richard Harris The Jackdaw of Rheims " '73 Barnes, William The Mother's Dream 15 '39 Barnfield, Richard To the Nightingale 12 16 Barrie, James Matthew The Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell .... 20-Pt. I I Basse, William F^legy on Shakespeare '5 45 Batks, Katherine Lee Wings T -T • • 14 289 "Baxter, Billy," see Kountz, William J. JR Baxter, Richard A Hymn, Of Trust iS 164 Beaumont P'rancis On the Tombs in Westminster 'S 45 Beaumont, Joseph Home 14 256 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell Wolfram's Dirge '5 42 How Many Times Do I Love Thee Dear? . . 12 158 Dream-Pedlary 12 227 Beecher, Henry Ward Deacon Marble 7-Pt. J 13 The Deacon's Trout 7-Pt. I IS Noble and the Empty Hole 7-Pt. 1 17 Behn, Apura Song 12 141 Beli.oc, Hilaire The Early Morning I3 294 The South Country ^ 12 33i Bfn^t, William Rose • Iricksters 13 288 Authors' Index 137 VOL. PAfJE BiERCE, Ambrose The Dog and the Bees 7-Ptn 'o The Man and the Goose 9-Pt- 1 85 "Billings, Josh" see Shaw, Henry W Bi.AKE, William The Tiger 124- Song 12 U5 The Golden Door IS 172 Piping Down the Valleys 12 246 To the Muses 12 287 Boccaccio, Giovanni The Falcon 20-Pt.II Boker, George Henry The Black Regiment lo 207 BONAR, HORATIUS God's Way 15 182 Booth, Edwin Autohiography 17-Pt.n 23 Braithwaite, William Stanley Sandy Star 12 34* Sic Vita 12 343 Branch, .\nna Hempstead Songs for My Mother 14 30O Breton, Nicholas Philllda and Corydon 12 106 Bronte, Charlotte Autobiography I7-Pt- I '2» Bronte, Emily My Lady's Grave 12 319 Brooke, Rupert Dust 12 341 1914— V— The Soldier IS 228 Browne, Charles F. ("Artemus Ward") A Visit to Brigham Young 9-Pt. I 47 Among the Spirits ^?*- ^ ?' One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters .... 8-Pt.H 68 On "Forts" 8-Pt.II 69 Browne, William The Sirens' Song 12 23 A Welcome 12 III My Choice 12 II2 Browning, Elizabeth Barretp Sleep 15 21 The Romance of the Swan's Nest 10 79 A Dead Rose 12 191 A Man's Requirements 12 192 Sonnets from the Portuguese 13 23a A Musical Instnimcnt 12 282 The Cry of the Children 12 296 Mother and Poet II 297 Browning, Robert A King Lived Long Ago 11 9 13S Authors' Index VOL. PAGE Browning, \iouv».\—Continuea Love Among rlif Ruins II 28 Home-Thoughts from Abroad 12 C7 My Star ' 12 c8 From Pippa Passes [ 12 eg Evelyn Hope ' '. '. 15 121 May and Death ] ' jc ,2^ How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 10 no The Boy and the Angel j, ,t. Epilogu- ■ • . jj e Irospice jc jTr Memorabilia . '. 14 iqi The I'icd I'iper of Hamciin ' 11 161 Abt Vogler 14 177 Two in the Campagna j^ ,g- Hervc Riel ..." 10 162 A Woman's Last Word ... ' i^ jg- Meeting at Night .'.■.■.■ il 189 Partrng at Mormng 12 190 Misconceptions. U jrvj Rabbi Ben Ezra ... ^ ^yu 5,=""' . T '■'.'. 14 199 Cavalier Tunes ,2 20c Incident of the French Camp [ jq 211 The Statue and the Bust | ' n 271 The Lost Leader [ \ j2 280 The Patriot . 11 200 Bryant, William Cullen ] ' ' Thanatopsis I? 18 The Battle-Field '. . . IS 26 A Forest Hymn ' ' 14. li The Evening Wind . 12 co The Mosquito '.'.'. g-Pt.II 58 lo the r ringed Gentian 14 114 The Death of the Flowers J4 118 To a Waterfowl '[ jj , ,_ Song of Marion's Men 10 jgg BuNNER, Henry Cuyler " ' Candor 8-Pf. I 11 I he Love Letters of Smith 8-Pt. I 80 Behold the Deeds! ' 7-PtJI 123 BuRDETPE, Robert Jones The Vacation of Mustapha 8-Pt. I 3 The Romance of the Carpet 9-Pt. 1 31 The Legend of Mimir 8-Pt. I 68 Rheumatism Movement Cure 8-Pt!H 37 The Artless Prattle of Childhood ...'.'. 7-Pt!lI 106 BoRCEss, Gelbtt The Bohemians of Boston y.Pt H ,41 The Lazy Roof .' g-Pt. I 140 My Feet 8 Pt. I 149 Authors' Index I39 VOL. PACE Burns, Robert „ My Heart s in the Highlands '-'■». The Cotter's Saturday Night Autobiography. . . • • "7-^*- J ^\ Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson ... J^ ,zi To a Mountain Daisy ,, ,^ The Banks of Doon ,1,7, Mary Morison .- • • \\ \7» O, Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? \l Aa O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose .... '* !t^ Ae Fond Kiss J* fO OfA'theAirts J^ J5' HighlandMary ■ ■ • \l [^ Bannockbum ' A Farewell ^ It Was A' for our Rightfu' King I! ^^ John Anderson My Jo I? ,„ iT.?'''='"v.ne : : '" Auld Lang Syne ,2 270 Thou Lingenng Star ,! 27, Lines Written on a Banknote J3 Z7J Burr, Amelia Josephine Fall In! IS 2" Burt, Maxwell Strutbers Resurgam . _^. 3 v 152 Butler, Ellis Parker p , Just Like a Cat '«■"• ' Bynner.Wit Sentence Byron, Lord Bynner, Witter Sentence The isles of Greece It lol Oarkncss ...•• Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte !? I?? Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty s Bloom ... JS "3 Ode on Venice . ,1 III Stanzas for Music t, ,fi. When We Two Parted ,, It] She Walks in Beauty ■ ■ . • !, ,rT The Destruction of Sennacherib ,„, The Prisoner of Chillon JI 222 Sonner on Chillon . . . •_.■,••' ,, ,_- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth year . 12 275 « Cabell, James Branch . Porcelain Cups "-Pt. 1 38 Iampbell, Thomas To the Evening Star Z Al How Delicious Is the Winning 12 105 Ye Mariners of England '° II? The Soldier's Dream '° '°S Hohenlinden 1° o. The Battle of the Baltic lO l8S 140 Autliors' Index „ T ^ ■ J ^'"" ""AGS Campbbi.i., 1 HoMAs — Continued Lord Ullln's Daughter lO 259 C^Mi'ioN, '1'homas Cherry-Ripe 12 103 boUow Your Saint 12 Vobisciim est lope 12 Carew, Thomas Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villcrs .... 15 48 Disdain Returned 12 133 ^°"&. ,■■■.,■■ • 12 '34 lo His Inconstant Mistress 12 Carey, Henry Sally in Our Alley 12 Carleton, Henry Guy The Thompson Street Poker Club 7-Pt.n 116 Carlyle, Thomas Biography 2-Pt. I Boswcll's Life of Johnson 2-Pt. I The French Revolution Mirabcau 2-Pt. I ^ The Fhght to Varennes 2-Pt. I 87 Cromwell's Letters and Speeches Battle of Dunbar 2-Pt. I iii Sartor Kesartus The Watch-Tower 2-Pt. I Ghosts ".'.'. 2-Pt! I Past and Present Labor 2-Pt. I 138 Reward 2-Pt. I 146 Carman, Bliss A Vagabond Song 12 Carryl, Chari es E. The Walloping Window-Blind 9-Pt.II Cather, Wii.la Sibert Grandmither, Think Not I Forget .... 14 Chatrian, Alexandre, and Emile Erckmann The Comet 20-Pt.n Chatterton, Thomas Minstrel's Song 15 Cheney, John Vance The Happiest Heart 14 318 Child (Scott, Minst. Scot. Bord.) The Gay Goshawk 10 Young Beichan 10 The Bonny Earl of Murray lO Hind Horn lO _ Waly. Waly. Up the Bank '. 10 28 Clemens, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain") Colonel Mulbern,' Sellers 7-Pt.II 31 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 7-Pt. I 122 Clouch, Arthur Hugh In a Lecture-Room 14 272 103 I OS >35 142 3 32 79 129 •34 330 3S 313 104 40 II 17 21 25 14 272 12 317 IS 226 14 22 lO +4 U 80 13 99 n 10^ 14 264 12 166 13 227 •S 34 IS S9 13 81 13 85 IS IIZ Authors' Index 141 Clough, Arthur Hugh — Continued Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth .... Qua Cursum Ventus CoATES, Florence Earle Place de la Concorde Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Frost at Midnight Love Kubia Khan F'rance; An Ode Dejection; An Ode Youth and Age Coleridge, Hartley f°"8 bonnets Collins, William Ode Written in 1745 On the Death of Thomson The Passions Ode to Evening Dirge in Cymbeline CoLUM, Padraic An Old Woman of the Roads 14 3" Cone, Helen Gray The Ride to the Lady 10 311 Conrad, Joseph The Lagoon 22-Pt. I 17 Autobiography 17-Pt. I 147 Constable, Henry To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul 13 181 Cowley, Abraham A Supplication 13 59 On the Death of Mr. William Hervey . ... 15 80 Cowper. William On the Loss of the Royal George lO 148 To Mary Unwin 13 *05 Boadicea lo 181 Verses 14 221 The Diverting History of John Gilpin ... 11 241 To Mar\- 12 243 Co7,7.EN3, Frederick S. A Family Horse 9-Pt- I 3 Living in the Country 7-Pt- I 82 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True .... Crashaw, Richard Wishes to His Supposed Mistress Cross, M. E. O May I Join the Choir Invisible Cunningham, Allan A Wet Sheet and a Flovving Sea Hjme, Hame, Hame 310 «I7 185 73 309 142 Authors' Index vol. PAGE Cunninoham-Graham, Robert If Doughty Deeds 12 155 Dai.v, Thomas Augustine , Inscription for a Fireplace 13 294 Daniel, Samuel Love Is a Sickness 12 108 Delia 13 181 Darcan, Olive Tilford "There's Rosemary" 13 287 Darley, George Song 12 170 Daskam, Josephine Dodge The Woman Who Was Not Athletic .... Q-Pt.ll 78 Ihe Woman Who Used Her Theory .... 9-Pt.lI 80 The Woman Who Helped Her Sister .... 9-Pt.II 81 Daudet, Alphonse The Sicce of Berlin 21-Pt. I 129 Davenant, Sir William The Lark Now Leaves His Wat'ry Nest ... 12 131 Davidson, John Butterflies 12 345 Davies, William H. Catherine II 327 Davis, Fannie Stearns Souls 14 317 Davis, Richard Harding Mr. Travers's First Hunt 22-Pt. I 135 Davis, Sam The First Piano in a Mining-Camp .... 9-Pt. I 34 Day, Holman F. Tale of the Kennebec Mariner 9-Pt. I 10 Grampy Sings a Song 9-Pt.lI 64 Cure for Homesickness 9-Pt.II 129 Dekker, Thoma.s The Happy Heart 12 223 De La Mare, Walter The Listeners II 327 De QuiNCEY, Thomas The Affliction of Childhood 4-Pt.II 3 Confessions of an F.nglish Opium-Eater The Pleasures of Opium 4-Pt.II 31 The I'ains of Opium 4-Pt.II 73 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth . 4-Pt.II lOO The English Mail-Coach Going down with Victory 4-Pt.II 107 The Vision of Sudden Death 4-Pt.II 119 Lcvana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 4-Pt.II I4S Derby, G. H. ("Phoenix," "Squibob") Illustrated Newspapers 7-Pt.II II Tushmaker's Toothpuller 7-Pt.ll S3 Authors' Index 143 VOL PAGB De Voltaise. Francois Marie Arouet Jeannot and Colin 22-Pt. I I Dickens, Charles The Trial for Murder 21-Pt. I I Autobiography 17-Pt. I 99 Dickinson, Emilv Our Share of Night to Bear ...... 13 282 Heart, We Will Forget Him 13 282 DoBsoN, Austin The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme li 335 Dodge, Mary Mapes Miss Malony on the Chinese Question . . . 7-Pt.II 20 Domett, Alfred A Christmas Hymn IS '78 Donne, John A Burnt Ship 13 272 The Dream 12 137 The Will IS IS6 Death 13 I9S "Dooley, Mr. ysee Dunne, F. P. Douglas, Jamie [?) Waly, Waly, Up the Bank 10 28 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Dancing Men 22-Pt. I 63 Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings The Private of the Buffs 1 1 284 Drake, Joseph Rodman The American Flag 12 21$ Drayton, Michael Idea 13 182 Agincourt lo 176 Drinkwater, John Birthright IS 199 Drummond, William Invocation 12 24 I Know That All Beneath the Moon Decays . 13 '96 For the Baptist 13 197 To His Lute 13 198 Dryden, John A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 13 61 Alexander's Feast 13 63 Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! 12 140 On Milton 13 272 DuFFERiN, Lady Lament of the Irish Emigrant IS 128 Dunne, F. P. ("Mr. Dooley") On Expert Testimony 9-Pt.II 13 Home Life of Geniuses 9-Pt.II 56 Work and Sport 9-Pt.lI 87 On Gold-Seeking 9-Pt- I 99 The City as a Summer Resort 9-Pt.II 138 Avarice and Generosity 9-Pt.II 144 144 Authors' Index VOL. PACF DUNSANY, IaiRD A Nifiht At All Inn l8 i Songs from an Evil Wood: III and IV. 15 221 Ei.i.ioT, Jean A Lament for Klodden 10 251 Emerson, Ralph Waldo Waldeinsanikeit 14 39- The World-Soiil 12 59 To the Hiiniblebee ■ 12 64 The Titmouse 12 66 The Snow-Storm 14 93 The Rhodora 14 115 Ode 13 167 Concord Hymn 12 218 Good-by 12 228 Each and All I4 262 The Forerunners I4 265 Terminus 14 267 The Problem 14 268 Brahma 14 271 Erckmann, Emile and Alex. Chatrian The Comet 20-Pt.II 104 Faber, Frederick William The Will of God 15 181 "Familias, p." The Night After Christmas 9-Pt. I 75 Ferber, Edna The Gay Old Dog 22-Pt.II 81 Ferguson, Samuel The Forging of the Anchor 14 82 Field, Eugene The Truth About Horace . 9-Pt. I 17 Dibdin's Ghost 9-Pt.II 44 The Little Peach 8-Pt. I 86 Baked Beans and Culture 9-Pt. I 86 The Cyclopeedy 9-Pt. I 1 27 Dutch Lullaby 12 250 Fields, James The Owl-Critic 7-Pt. 1 41 The Alarmed Skipper . . . 7-Pt. I 75 Flagc, James Montgomery Said Opie Read 8-Pt. I 173 Flecker, James Elroy The Ballad of Camden Town lO 295 The Dying Patriot 12 347 Fletcher, Giles Wooing Song 12 loi Fletcher, John Love's Emblems 12 29 Authors' Index 145 VOL. PAGE Fletcher, JoBt^— Continued Hear, Ye Ladies 12 132 Melancholy 12 278 Fletcher, Phineas A Hymn 12 317 Ford, James L. t. t The Society Reporter's Christmas . . . 8-Pt. I 57 The Dying Gag 9-Pt.II 119 Ford, Simeon At A Turkish Bath 9-Pt.II 74 The Discomforts of Travel 9-Pt.n 1^3 Boyhood in a New England Hotel 9-Pt. I 123 Foss, Sam Walter The Prayer of Cyrus Brown 9-Pt.n 8 The Meeting of the Clabberhuses 8-Pt. I 39 A Modern Martyrdom 9-Pt. II 84 The Ideal Husband to His Wife 9-Pt. I 103 Franklin, Benjamin Ma.xims 7-Pt. 1 II Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted With 7-Pt. I II Epitaph for Himself 7-Pt. I 12 Autobiography — Selections , „ ,, Early Life 6-Pt.II 3 Settling Down 6-Pt.II 76 Rules of Conduct 6-Pt.lI 86 Public Affairs 6-Pt.H 102 George Whitefield 6-Pt.II 108 The.Franklin Stove 6-Pt.II 115 Civic Pride ^d*}{ "^ Philosophical Experiments 6-Pt.II 125 Poor Richard's Almanac 6-Pt.II 133 Selected Essays Advice to a Young Tradesman .... 6-Pt.II 153 The Whistle 6-Pt.II 156 Necessary Hints to Those That Would Be Rich 6-Pt.II 160 Motion for Prayers 6-Pt.Il 162 Letters ^ n ,, ^ To Dr. Priestly 6-Pt.lI 167 To Mr. Strahan 6-Pt.II 169 To General Washington 6-Pt.II 170 To Dr. Mather 6-Pt.II 172 To the Bishop of St, Asaph's 6-Pt.II 175 Freeman, Mrs., see Wilkins, Mary Eleanor (Mrs. Freeman). Freneau, Philip The Wild Honeysuckle 14 "3 Galsworthy, John The Little Man 18 227 Garrison, Theodosia . A Love Song 12 338 146 Authors' Index VOL. PACK Gautier, Thkophilb The Mummy's Foot 19-Pt. I 90 Gay, John Black-ryrd Susan ♦. . . 10 32 Gerstenberc, Alice Overtones 18 139 Gibson, Wilhrid Wilson The Fear 15 216 Back 15 216 The Return 15 217 GlI.LILAN, S. W. FinnJKin to Flannigan 9-Pt. 1 92 Goi DSMiTH, Oliver When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly ... 13 273 Goodman, Edward Eugcnically Speaking 18 193 Graham, James My Dear and Only Love, I Pray 12 144 Grant, Ulysses Simpson Autobiography l5-Pt.II 3 Graves, Robert It's a Queer Time 15 219 Gray, Thomas Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . . 15 12 Ode to Adversity 13 70 The Progress of Poesy 13 76 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton CollcBe . . ij 72 Greene, Albert Gorton Old Grimes 7-Pt. I 19 Greene, Robert Sephestia's Lullaby 12 247 Grenfell, Julian Into Battle 15217 Greville, Fulkb On Sir Philip Sidney 15 49 Guiney, I,oi)isE Imogen Tryste Not-l 1 5 202 GuiTERMAN, Arthur Strictly Germ-Proof 7-Pt. I 141 In the Hospital IS 203 Habington, William To Roses in the Bosom of Castara .... 12 116 Hagedorn, Hermann Song Is So Old 12 337 Hale, Edward Everett The Man Without a Country 2i-Pt.II 57 My Double and How He Undid Me .... 8-Pt. I 124 Hai.leck, Fitz-Greene Burns IS 67 Joseph Rodman Drake IS 104 Alarco Bozzaris 11 187 Authors' Index 147 VOL. PAGE Halpine, Charles Graham Irish Astronomy 8-Pt.II 79 Hamilton, Alexander Autobiography l6-Pt. I 71 Hardy, Thomas The Oxen IS 20I She Hears the Storm H 312 Harte, Francis Bret The Outcasts of Poker Flat 20-Pt. I 30 Melons 7-Ptn 41 The Society upon the Stanislaus 7-Pt.II 57 Her Letter 8-Pt. I 113 To the Pliocene Skull 8-Pt. I 14S Plain Language from Truthful James .... II 234 Ramon 11 285 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Dr. Heidegger's Experiment 3-Pt- I 3 The Birthmark 3-Pt- I 23 Ethan Brand 3-Pt- I 5S The Great Carbuncle 20-Pt.n 39 Autobiography 17-Pt. I 74 Wakefield 3-Pt. I 85 The Minister's Black Veil 21-Pt. I 107 The Great Stone Face 3-Pt. I 103 The Gray Champion 3-Pt. I 139 Hay, John Little Breeches 7-Pt. I 45 Hayne, Paul Hamilton In Harbor IS 142 Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon 13 265 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers In New Eng- land 10 ISI Henry, O. „ , The Furnished Room 22-Pt. I 140 The Gift of the Magi 22-Pt.II 48 Herbert, George The Elixir IS iSO Discipline IS «SI Easter IS IS* The Pulley IS IS3 Virtue 15 IS4 Herpord, Oliver „ _, Gold 9-Pt.II 9 Child's Natural History 9-Pt.II 37 Metaphysics 9-Pt.II 128 The End of the World 9-Pt. I 120 Hergesheimer, Joseph L A Sprig of Lemon Verbena 22I t. II i Herrick, Robp.rt Corinna's Going a-Maying 12 30 T» Blossoms '2 33 148 Authors' Index VOL. TACE Herrick, RonEKT — Continued To Daffodils 12 34 To Violets 12 3S To Meadows 12 35 Lacrimae . 15 41 To Dianeme 12 I23 Upon Julia's Clothes 12 124 The Primrose 12 . 124 To the Vircins, to Make Much of Time ... 12 125 Delight in Disorder 12 125 To Anthea 12 126 To Daisies 12 127 The Night-Piece 12 128 Litanv to the Holy Spirit IS 158 Hewlett, Maurice Soldier, Soldier IS 212 Hevsk, Johann Ludwig Paui L'Arrabiata 20-Pt. I 130 Heywood, John A Praise of His Lady 12 7Q Heywood, Thomas Pack, Clouds, Away 12 107 Hobart, George V. John Henry at the Races 9-Pt.II QS Hodgson, Ralph Eve II 324 The Gypsy Girl 14 299 Hoffman, Charles Fenno Monterey 10 206 Hogg, James Kilmeny II 151 HoLLEY, Marietta An Unmarried Female 8-Pt.II 26 Holmes, Oliver Wendell My Aunt 7-ViL I 23 Latter-Day Warnings 7-Pt. I 34 Contentment 7-Pt. I 35 An Aphorism, and a Lecture 8-Pt.II 44 Foreign Correspondence 7-Pt. I 77 The Chambered Nautilus 14 108 Music-Pounding 7-Pt. I 80 The Height of the Ridiculous 8-Pt. I 118 The Ballad of the Oysterman 7-Pt- 1 lOS The Last Leaf 14 167 Old Ironsides '12 217 The One-Hoss-Shay 11 236 Hood, Thomas Flowers 12 S3 The Bridge of Sighs IS '24 The Death-Bed IS I3i Autumn 13 >48 Ruth 14 157 Authors' Index 149 Hood, Thomas— Continued It Was Not in the Winter '^ '% Fairlnes 12 l68 Sonnets ^^ ^1° The Dream of Eugene Aram " ^P I Remember, I Remember 12 269 The Song of the Shirt •;•••„••,• 12 29^ HoucHTov, Lord (Richard Monckton Milnes) The Men of Old 14 '33 The Brook-Side 12 177 HousMAN, Alfred E. A Shropshire Lad-XIII 12 340 Ho"EV Richard The Sea Gypsy 12 334 HowELLs, William Dean ... o t> ti Mrs. Johnson 8-Pt" >07 Hunt, Leigh AbouBenAdhem " '^i Jenny Kissed Me 12 158 Incelow, Jean ,,.,■• /c^ The High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire . 10 203 Irving, Sir Henry .. Autobiography 17-rt.U 39 Irving, Washington ,, The Angler 3-Pt.|I 5 Rip Van Winkle ^^-Pt-H 71 Wouter Van Twiller 7-Pt- J 3 Rural Life in England ^-PtJ} 23 The Devil and Tom Walker 3-Pt.ll 37 TheVovage 3-Pt j 61 Westminster Abbey ^'n li ^^ Stratford-on-Avon H' }} ^^ The Stout Gentleman 3-Pt.Il 129 Irwin, Wallace _ The Servant Problemb 7-Pt- 1 "32 Jefferson, Joseph Autobiography 17-rt.ll 3 Jefferson, Thomas .•\utobiography l6-Ft. 1 43 JoNRs. Sir William What Constitutes a State? 13 OS JoNsoN, Ben Hymn to Diana 12 14 A Pindaric Ode '' ''7 Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke ... IS 4° On Elizabeth L. H '5 +7 Her Triumph 12 89 ToCelia . 12 90 Simplex .Munditijs 12 9' isO Authors' Index VOL. PAGE Keats, John The Eve of St. Acnes II 68 l.a Belle Dame Sans Merci lO 85 Ode to a Nielitingale * . . . IJ 132 Ode • . : '3 13s Ode on a Grecian Urn 13 137 Ode to Psyche «3 «39 To Autumn 13 142 Fancy 13 143 Rohin Hood 14 146 Sonnets 13 223 In a Drear-nightcd December 12 268 Keble, John Morning 15 173 Eveninc IS '75 Keii EY, Jarvis The Sonc of the Jellyfish 9-Pt.lI 63 Keller, Helen AutobioRraphy 17-Pt. I 167 Kellev, Andrew V. ("Parmenas Mix") He Came to Pay 7-Pt. I 102 Key, Francis Scott The Star-Spangled Banner 12 21J Kilmer, Joyce A Ballad of Three 10 311 Trees 12 32^ King Ben If I Should Die To-night 9-Pt.II 7 The Pessimist 9-Pt. I 94 Kingsley, Charle.s Oh 1 That We Two Were Maying 12 175 The Last Buccaneer 14 240 The Sands of Dee 10 261 The Three Fishers lO 262 Lorraine II 306 Kipling, Rlidyard TheMan Who Would Be King 21-Pt.II i Without Benefit of Clergy 9-Pt. I 54 KouNTZ, William J., Jr. (''Billy Baxter") In Society 9-Pt.II 108 Lamb, Charles The Old Familiar Faces IS 73 Hester >S 7S The Two Races'of Men '. '. 5-Pt.II 3 New Year's Eve S-PtH u Imperfect Sympathies 5-Pt.II 21 Dream-Children; A Reverie S-Pt.II 34 A Dissertation upon Roast Pig 5-Pt.II 40 On Some of the Old Actors ...... S-Pt.II 52 Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading . 5-Pt.lI 70 Authors' Index 151 VOL. PAGE Lamb, Charles— CondWJ The Superannuated Man 5p!il 1° Old China S-"ll 91 ''ToCo.end.e S-Pt-II X03 To Coleridge S-Pt-jI OS To Manning fPt.}} ^ To Wordsworth S-^t {j 4 To Manning , 5-Ft {1 17 To Miss Hutch.nson S-Pt. U 22 To J. Taylor 5"? • J3 To J. Taylor S-Ptl{ ^5 To Bernard Barton ^'i, \x III To Wordsworth S-PtH 129 To Bernard Barton S-PtH 133 To Wordsworth S-PtH 136 To Wordsworth S-Pt.ll 143 A Farewell to Tobacco ^'t^W ''*' She Is Going 5-Pt.II IS4 Landor, Walter Savage , To the Sister of Elia IS 7«> RoseAylmer 'J "^ The Maid's Lament IS "9. To Robert Browning '* '51 To Wordsworth ... '♦ 't° Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel 12 273 On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday 13 27S Lanier, Sidney Sunrise * „li The Stirrup-Cup '^ ,2 The Marshes of Glynn '* ^i A Ballad of Trees and the Master 12 310 Lanigan. George T. t> i .« The Villager and the Snake 9-Pt- } "9 The Amateur Orlando 9-^t. 1 20 The Ahkoond of Swat 8-Pt- \ 37 The Ostrich and the Hen : »-^t- \ « The Grasshopper and the Ant li-rt. 1 45 The Philosopher and the Simpleton .... S-i't- I 4& The Shark and the Patriarch vi\ t The Fox and the Crow 7-Pt.n 122 Larcom, Lucy A Strip of Blue 14 42 Leacock.Stethen „P, II My Financial Career 9-PtH «9 Lee, Robf-rt F,. , _ ,, , Autobiographv '6-Pt.II 62 LeGaliifnne, Richard . . ^ May Is Building Her House 12 j2» Leland, Charles Godfrey Ballad 7-1 t.H SI 152 Aiitliors' Index vol.. PAt;E Lei.anp, Chari ks Godfrey— Continual/ Hans Brcitmaiiiis Party 7-Pt- I 96 Lewis, Chari fs B. ("M. Quad") The Patent CJas Regulator 9-Pt.II 3 Two Cases of (jrip 8-Pt. I 50 Lincoln, Adramam Speeches — Selected The Whigs and the Mexican War .... S-P*. 1 3 Notes for a Law Lecture S-Pt- I 7 Fragment on Slavery S-Pt- I ' ' The Dred Scott Decision and the Declaration of Independence S-Pt. I 13 Springheld Speech S-Pt. I 23 Address at Cooper Institute 5-Pt. I 37 Farewell at SprinEticld S-Pt. I 70 Speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia 5-Pt. I 71 First Inaugural Address 5-Pt. I 74 Emancipation Proclamation S-Pt- I 90 Ship of State and Pilot, May, 1863 .... S-Pt. I 94 Speech to l66th Ohio Regiment .... S-Pt- 1 96 Response to Serenade 5-Pt. I 98 Reply to Committee on Electoral Count S-Pt- I '01 The Last Address in Public, April II, 1865 5-Pt. I 102 Gettysburg Address l6-Pt. I 131 Letters To McClellan S-Pt. I lo? To Seward S-Pt. 1 in To Mrs. Lincoln 5-Pt. I 113 To the Workingmen of Manchester .... 5-Pt. I lij To Burnside 5-Pt. I 1 18 To .'^stor, Roosevelt, and Sands, Nov. 9, 1863 . 5-Pt. I 119 To Edward Everett 5-Pt. I 120 To Grant S-Pt. I 121 To Wm. Cullen Bryant 5-Pt. I 122 To Thurlow Weed S-Pt. 1 124 Autobiography l6-Pt. I 93 Lindsay, Lady Anne Auld Robin Gray 10 30 Lindsay, Vachei. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight .... 14 298 Lodge, Thomas Rosalind's Madrigal 12 83 Rosalind's Description 12 84 Logan, John To the Cuclfoo 12 37 Thy Braes Were Bonny 10 249 London, Jack Jan the Unrepentant 22-Pt.II 136 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Autobiography 17-Pt. I 3 Hymn to the Night 12 46 The Light of Stars 12 48 Authors' Index 153 VOL. PACE Longfellow, Henry WADSWORTH-Conrinu.J Daybreak Sc3wccd - - ■.' * * The Building of the Ship Rain in Summer Charles Sumner The Skeleton in Armor . ■ • • ■ Resignation „,••., The Village Blacksmith The Wreck of the Hesperus . - • • Sir Humphrey Gilbert • ■ ■ • • " A Ballad of the French Fleet . - • Trans. Dante's '-Divine Comedy . • Nature The Day Is Done A Psalm of Life The Beleaguered City My 1 ost Youth . . ■ The Bridge • ■ „ The Arrow and the bong LooMis, Charles B.^ttell O-U-G-H Lovelace, Richard The Grasshopper . . • • ^ • • To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas . . To Althea from Pnson ■ „. To Lucasta, on Going to the W ars . • Lover, Samuel The Gridiron Lowell, Amy Madonna of the Evening Flowers . . • A Winter Ride Lowell, James Russell A Letter: Biglow Papers. The Yankee Recruit . The Vision of Sir Launfal To the Dandelion Without and Within Rhoccus . • She Came and Went The First Snow-Fall The Sower . . • • To the Past . . To the Future ^, . , What Mr. Robinson Thinks . ■ ■ ■ The Courtin' Sonnets ■ , , •, c -j What Rahbi Jehosha Said Lowell, Robert The Relief of Lucknow LuMMis, C. F. A Poe- em of Passion 12 14 II 14 49 88 89 96 IS III 10 124 15 131 14 165 10 156 10 160 10 228 13 240 13 244 12 240 14 247 14 249 12 263 12 279 12 283 7-Pt. 1 143 12 30 12 129 12 13° 12 198 19-Pt.II 59 11 3J9 12 331 7-Pt.n 7-Pt. I II 8-Pt .'it 25 52 107 116 72 II 127 IS «34 15 135 14 144 13 >6i 13 164 7-Pt. I 115 II 230 13 251 14 282 II 184 9-Pt.lI 137 154 Authors' Index VOL. PACE Lvi.Y, John Spring's Welcome 12 15 Cupid and Campaspo 12 86 Lyth, Henry Francis Abide With Me IS 180 I-YTLE, William Haines Antony to Cleopatra 14 238 Lytton, Earl of Aux Italiens II 224 Mabie, Hamilton Wright Introduction 19-Pt. 1 V Macaulay, Lord Ivry 10 194 Essays — Selections The Task of the Modern Historian . . 2-Pt.n 3 The Puritans 2-Pt.Il 23 Dr. Samuel Johnson His Biographer 2-Pt.II 30 His Character and Career Z-Pt.H 39 Lord Byron The Man 2-Pt.n 80 The Poet 2-Pt.II 94 History of England — Selections England Under the Restoration The Country Gentlemen 2-Pt.n no Polite Literature 2-Pt.H I19 MacDonald, George The Earl o' Quarterdeck 10 300 MacKave, Percy The Automobile 13 290 MacMillan Mary The Shadowed Star 18 273 McCrae, John In Flanders Fields 15 214 McMaster, Guy Humphreys Carmen Bellicosum lO 204 Mahony, Francis The Bells of Shandon 12 238 Mangan, James Clarence My Dark Rosaleen 12 210 Mansfield, Richard Autobiography 17-Pt.ll 61 Marble, Danforth The Hoosier and the Salt-Pile 8-Pt.II 62 Markham, F'dwin Outwitted 13 294 The Man with the Hoe 14 294 Lincoln, the Man of the People 14 296 Marlowe, Christopher The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ... 12 97 Authors' Index 155 VOL. Marquis, Don . Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac . . 9-rt. I 143 Marstos, Philip Bourke HowMy Song of Her Began 13 266 Martin, E. S. „ , Infirm 9-Pt. I 115 EpithaUmium 9-Pt.II 116 Marvell, Andrew Bermudas IS 102 An Horatlan Ode '3 54 The Garden 14 20 MASEnELD. John Sea Fever 12 334 Massov, Thomas L. d t My Subwa\ C.uard Friend 9-"- I I40 Masters, Edgvr Lee Isaiah Beethoven 14 3o8 Maupassant, Henri Rene Albert Guy De The Necklace 2I-Pt.l 94 The riece of String 2l-Pt.II 96 Messinger, Robert Hinckley A Winter Wish 12 259 Meyneli, Alice A Dead Harvest 14 292 Mickle, W. J. The Sailor's Wife lo 34 Milnes, Richard Monckton The Men of Old U 133 The Brook-Side 12 177 Milton, John L'Allegro 14 9 II Penseroso I4 14 Echo 12 25 Sabrina 12 26 The Spirit's Epilogue ........ 12 27 Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity . 13 42 An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare IS 44 Lycidas IS S^ On Time 13 52 At a Solemn Music 13 S3 Sonnets 13 198 Mix, Parmenas, see Kelley, Andrew V. Montcomerie, Alexander The Night Is Near Gone 12 11 Moody, William Vaughn Gloucester Moors 11 320 Moore, Thomas The Lake of the Dismal Swamp H 83 Fly to the Desert, Fly With Me 12 ISS Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms 12 156 As Slow Our Ship 12 232 156 Authors' Index VO!.. I'ACE Moore, Thi mas — Continutd A Canadian Boat-Sone 12 233 The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls . . 12 288 Oft, in the Stilly Night 12 271 At the Mid Hour of Night 12 304 MoRi.EY, Christopher The Haunting Beauty of Strychnine .... 9-Pt. I 13s Rhubaib 22-Pt.n 56 Secret Laughter 13 29s Morris, William February 14 102 March 14 IC$ May 14 1C4 October 14 ICS Summer Dawn 12 172 The Nymph's Song to Hylas 12 173 The Voice of Toil 12 290 The Shameful Death lO 277 MuKERJI, DhaN GoPAL The Judgment of Indra 18 257 Munday, Anthony Beauty Sat Bathing 12 88 MUNKITTRICK, RiCHARD K. The Patriotic Tourist 9-Pt.II 47 What's in a Name.' 9-Pt.n 103 'Tis Ever Thus 9-Pt.n 152 Murphy, Joseph Quinlan Casey at the Bat 9-Pt. I 9S Nairne, Baroness (Carolina Oliphant) The Laird o'Cockpen II 251 The Land o* the Leal 12 311 Nash, Thomas Spring IJ 15 Neihardt, John G. Envoi 15 700 Newell, Robert Henry The American Traveler ^•Vt.\1 '05 Newman, John Henry The Pillar of the Cloud it 323 Sensitiveness IS 183 Flowers Without Fruit 15 184 Newton, John The Quiet Heart IS '70 Norris Frank The Passing of Cock-Eye Blaclclock .... 22-Pt.n 64 Noyes, Alfred Creation IS 204 The May-Tree 12 327 Old Grey Squirrel 14 306 Nye, Bill How to Hunt the Fox 8-Pt. I 70 Authors' Index 157 VOL. PAGE Nye, Bn-L—Continiud On Cvclones 9-Pt. I 83 A Fatal Thirst 7-Pt.II 148 OcDEN, Eva. L. The Sea 9-Pt.II 153 O'Hara, John Myers .Atropos IS 159 O'Hara, Theodore The Bivouac of the Dead 1528 O'Reilly, John Boyi-E Constancy 9-Pt.II 48 Paine, Albert Bigelow Mis' Smith 8-Pt.lI 77 Palmer, W.m. Pitt A Smack in School 7-Pt. I ;o Parkhurst, Dr. Charles H. A Remarkable Dream 8-Pt. 1 79 Parsons, Thomas \S illiam On a Bust of Dante '4 IS* Paradai'si Gloria IS 193 "Partington, Mrs.," i« Shillaber, B. P. Patmore, Coventry To the Unknown Eros 13 '^ The Toys JS 140 Peabody, Josephine, Preston Fortune and Men's Eves 18 89 The House and the Road 12 344 Peacock, Thomas Love Three Men of Gotham 12 257 Peary, Robert, Edwin At the North Pole i6-Pt.Il 1 25 Peck, Samlel Minturn Bessie Brown, M. D S-Pt.II 81 A Kiss in the Rain 9-Pt.II 83 Peele, George A Farewell to Arms 12 197 Percy The BaiilfTs Daughter of Islington lO 22 Phillips, Stephen Harold Before Senlac 14 S'S Pboenix, Illustrated Newspapers 7-Pt.II II Tuthmaker's Toothpiillcr 7-Pt.H S3 PiNKNEV, Edward Coate A Health 12 178 PoE, Edgar, Allan The Murders in the Rue Morgue .... 19-Pt. I I Fall of the House of Usher 4-Pt. I 3 Autobiography 17-Pt. I 28 Ligeia 4-Pt. I 37 158 Authors' Index vol.. PA«« PoB, Edgar Allan — Continued Annabel Lee lo 56 The Cask of Amontillado ........ 4-Pt- I 67 The AssiKnation 4-rt. I 81 MS. Found in a Bottle 4-l't. I 105 ThcHlackCat t-Pt. 1 127 The Pit and the Pendulum 21-Pt. I 139 To Helen 12 176 The Bells 12 234 Ulalume II 302 For Annie 12 305 The Raven lo 285 Pope, Alexander On a Certain Lady at Court 13 272 The Universal Prayer IS 1^6 The Dying Christian to His Soul IS 169 Pratt, Florence, E. Courting in Kentucky 9-Pt- I 24 Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall) The Sea II 72 The Blood Horse 12 74 The Poet's Song to His Wife 12 242 A Petition to Time 12 252 Sit Down, Sad Soul 12 303 Proctor, Adelaide Anne A Doubting Heart 12 312 Proudkit, David Law Prehistoric Smith 9-Pt. I 20 Pushkin, Alexander Sergeivitch The Snowstorm 2I-Pt.II 1 30 "Quad, M" j?^ Lewis, Charles B. Quarle^, Francis vol. page Love Triumphant ......••• 15 '55 Raleigh, Sir Walter Her Reply 12 98 The Pilgrimage 12 314 Repplier, Acnes A Plea for Humor 8-Pt.II 3 Rice, Cale Young The Chant of the Colorado 14 29I Riddle, A lbert A Poem of Kveryday Life 9-Pt.lI 148 Riley, Jame,s Whitcomb The Elf-Child 8-Pt. I 34 A Liz-Town Humorist 8-Pt. I 48 RisTORi, Adelaide Autobiography . .... i7-Pt.II 109 Rittenhouse, Je.ssie B. The Ghostly Galley 13 296 Authors' Index 159 ▼OL. FACE Roberts, Theodore Goodridgh The Maid 10 3CS Robertson, Harrison Kentucky Philosophy 9-Pt.II 7* Robinson, Edward Arlington Richard Cory U 309 Viclcery's Mountain 14 3°? Miniver Cheevy 7-Pt. 1 147 Roche, James Jeffrey TheV-A-S-E 7-Pt.II 6o A Boston Lullaby 8-Pt.lI 78 Rogers, Samuel Ginevra II 215 A Wish 12 224 Romaine, Harry The Unattainable 8-Pt. I 44 Roosevelt, Theodore Autobiography l6-Pt.II 74 Rose, Wm. Russell The Conscientious Curate and the Beauteous Ballet Girl 8-Pt. I S4 RossETTi, Dante Gabriel The Blessed Damozel 10 58 My Sister's Sleep IS '37 The Sonnet 13 176 The House of Life 13 257 Rossetti, Christina Georgina One Certainty 13 265 Up-Hill 12 32* RusKiN, John The Two Boyhoods l-Pt.H 3 The Slave Ship i-Pt.H 27 The Mountain Gloom I-Pt.H 33 The Mountain Glory I-Pt.ll 59 Venice i-Pt.lI 73 St. Mark's I-Pt U 91 Art and Morals I-Pt.H 103 Peace iPt.H 13S Russell, Irwin The Origin of the Banjo 9-Pt. I 79 Salvini, Tommaso Autobiography 17-Pt.n 80 Sanderson, James Gardner The Conundrum of the Golf-Linki .... S-Pt.H 94 Santayana, George "As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room" 13 286 Sassoon, Siegfried Dreamers 15 223 Saxe, John Godfrey My Familiar 9-Pt. I 'S The Coquette — A Portrait 7-Pt.H 3J i6o Authors' Index TOL. PACB Saxe, JonN Godfrey— Conf ^' Among the Spirits 8-1 1. 1 »l Amoretti r. 'i? '^^ Amusing a Boy 9-1 -H 49 Amy Wentworth 10 S3 And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus? 12 81 Angler, The 3-Pt.II J Annabel Lee lO 56 Annie, For 12 30S Anthea,To '^ 'fa Antony to Cleopatra o p 11 ^^ .Aphorism and a Lecture o-' *■" 44 . 169 lyo General Index of Titles VOL. PAOB Arab Love-Song 12 339 Arcthusa 11 140 Arrabiata, L' 20-Pt. I 1 30 Arrow anil the Song 12 283 Art and Morals I-Pt.II 103 Artless Prattle of Childhood 7-Pt. II 106 As in the Midst of Battle 13 287 As Slow Our Ship . . 12 232 AsIc Me No More 12 180 Assicnation, The 4-Pt. I 81 Astor, Roosevelt ami Sands, To S-Pt. I 119 Astrophel and Stella 13 178 At a Solemn Music '3 S3 At a Turkish Bath 9-Pt.II 74 At Gibraltar I3 290 At the Church Gate 12 171 At the Mid Hour of Night 12 304 .'\tro[)os 15 199 Attack on the Mill 20-Pt. I 47 Auld Lang Syne 12 261 Auld Robin Gray 10 30 Author's Resolution 12 no Automobile, The 13 290 Autumn 13 148 Autumn, To 13 142 Aux Italiens II 224 Avarice and Generosity 9-Pt.II 144 Back IS 216 Bailed Out 7-Pt. I 33 Bailiff's Daughter of Islington 10 22 Baked Beans and Culture 9-Pt. I 86 Ballad {Lfland) 7-Pt.II 51 Ballad of Father Gilligan 10 314 Ballad of Prose and Rhyme 12 33s Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens 10 144 Ballad of the French Fleet 10 228 Ballad of the Oysterman 7-Pt- I 'OS Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter 9-Pt. I 147 Ballad of Three 10 311 Ballad of Trees and the Master 12 316 Ballads (Thackeray) I-Pt. I 161 Banks of Doon 12 146 Hannockbum 12 198 Baptist, For the 13 197 Barbara Frietchie lo 210 Barefoot Boy 14 169 Bargain, The 12 87 Barton, To Bernard (iami) S-P*-II '27 fiattie of Dunbar 2-Pt.I III Battle of Otterbum lo 171 I'attleofthe Baltic lO 185 General Index of Titles 171 VOL. PAGE Battle-Field, The IS 26 Beautv and the Jacobin 18 19 Beaut>- Sat Bathing 12 88 Bedouin Love-Song „ I? '^^ Behold the Deeds! 7-Pt.n 123 Being Found Out, On I-Pt. I 104 Beleaguered City 14 249 Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms 12 157 Belle Dame sans Merci 10 85 Bells, The 12 234 Bells of Shandon 12 238 Bermudas „ .5 '°^ Bessie Brown, M. D 8-Pt.Jl 81 Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon . . 13 265 Birthmark, The 3-Pt. I 23 Birthright IS 199 Bivouac of the Dead IS 28 Black Cat 4-Pt. 1 127 Black Regiment lo 2C7 Black-eyed Susan lo 32 Bleak and Barren Was the Moor, Ah ... . I-Pt. I 163 Blessed Damozel lo 58 Blood Horse 12 74 Blossoms, To 12 33 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind 12 2s6 BlueSquilU 12 327 Boadicea 10 181 Bohemians of Boston 7-Pt.II 141 Bonnie George Campbell 10 238 Bonny Dundee lO 183 Bonny Earl of Murray 10 21 Book of Snobs I-Pt. I 3 Books and Reading, Detached Thoughts on. . . 5-Pt.II 70 Boswell's Life of Johnson (C<2r/>'W 2-Pt. I 32 Bov and the Angel n 'I *^^ Boyhood in a New England Hotel 9-Pt- I 1 23 Bozzaris, Marco (//a//«*) II 187 Braes of Yarrow 10 246 Brahma 14 2?! Break, Break, Break 12 320 Bridge, The 12 279 Bridge of Sighs IS 124 Brignall Banks „ 19 41 British Matron S-Pt.H 89 Brook, Song of the 14 99 Brook-Side, The 12 177 Browning, To Robert 14 151 Bryant, To William Cullen 5-Pt- I '22 Buildingof the Ship 1 1 89 Bully Boat and a Brag Captain 7-Pt.lI 3 Burial of Sir John Moore IS 3' Burns (llalUcki IS 67 172 General Index of Titles vol.. PAOP Burnside, To S-Pt- I "8 Burnt Ship, A 13 271 Biitnrflies 12 345 Byron, Lord (Macaulay) 2-Pt.II 80 Canadian Boat-Song 12 233 Candor 8-Pt. I 11 Captain Matthew Henderson, Elegy on .... 15 61 Captain Scott's Last Struggle l6-Pt.II 152 Carmen Bellicosum lO 204 Casey at the Bat 9-Pt. I 95 Cask of Amontillado 4-Pt. I 67 Catharine 11 327 Cause for Thanks 7-Pt. I 44 Cavalier Tunes 12 205 Celia, To 12 90 Chambered Nautilus 14 I08 Chant of the Colorado 14 291 Chant Royal of the Dejected Dipsomaniac . 9-Pt. I 143 Chapter Last i-Pt. I 29 Character of a Happy Life I4 258 Charge of the Heavy Brigade lO 219 Charge of the Light Brigade lO i\'j Charles Sumner IS III Check 14 293 Cherry-Ripe 12 103 Child My Choice, A IS 149 Child's Natural History 9-Pt.II 37 Children's Hospital II 3'0 Chillon, Sonnet on 13 222 Chimmie Kadden Makes Friends 9-Pt. I 105 Chimmie Meets the Duchess 9-Pt- I I09 Chinese Question, Miss Malony on the 7-Pt.II 20 Chloris, To 12 138 Christmas Hvmn IS '78 Church Gate, At the 12 171 City, The 13 289 City as a Summer Resort 9-Pt.II 138 Oerical Snobs, On I-Pt. I IS Cloud, The 14 90 Cold Wave of 32 B. C 9-Pt I 146 Coleridue, To (iam/>) S-Pt.H 103 Colonel Mulberry Sellers 7-Pt.II 31 Come Away, Come Away, Death 12 96 Come into the Garden, Maud 12 182 Comet, The *°"E*^^ '?■♦ Commanders of the Faithful I-Pt. I 165 Concord Hymn 12 218 Confessions of an English Opium Eater . . . 4-Pt.II 31 Conscientious Curate and the Beauteous Ballet Girl 8-Pt. I S4 Constancy (()• Reilly) 9-Pt.II 48 Constancy (Sliatrp) IS ii?7 General Index of Titles 173 VOL. PAGE Constancy [Suckling) 12 122 Contentment 7-Pt- I 35 Conundrum of the Golf Links 8-Pt.II 94 Cooper Institute, Address at 5-Pt. I 37 Coquette, The . 7-Pt.lI 33 Corinna's Going a-Mayine 12 30 Coronach • ■ •. IS 33 Cotter's Saturday Night II 40 Countess of Pemhroke, Epitaph on 15 46 Country Gentleman 2-Pt.II no County Guy 12 154 Courtin', The II 230 Courting in Kentucky Q-Pt. I 24 Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell 20-Pt. I I Crabbed Age and '>outh 12 94 Creation 15 204 Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (Car/y/ir) . . . 2-Pt. I in Crossing the Bar 12 324 Crowded 7-Pt. I 74 Cry of the Children 12 296 Cuckoo Song 12 II Cuckoo, To the (Logan) 12 37 CucVoo,To the Of ord.'tcorth) 12 38 Cumberbunce, The 9-Pt.II 40 Cupid and Campaspe 12 86 Cure for Homesickness 9-Pt.II 129 Cyclones, On 9-Pt. I 83 Cyclopeedy, The 9-Pt. I 127 Daffodils 12 41 Daffodils, To 12 34 Daisies, To 12 127 Dancing Men 22-Pt. I 63 Dandelion, To the 14 1 16 Dante, On a Bust of ......... 14 li;2 Dante's Divine Comedy, Longfellow's translation 13 240 Darkest Africa, In l6-Pt.II 97 Darkness II 102 Day Is Done 12 240 Daybreak 12 49 De Kinibus I-Pt. I 143 De Juventute i-I't. I 65 Deacon Marble 7-Pt. I 13 Deacon's Trout 7-Pt. I 15 Dead Harvest I4 292 Dead Rose, A 12 191 Death 13 195 Death of Mr. William Htrvey IS 80 Death of Orivier Becaille 21-Pt. I 53 Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife, Upon the . . IS 47 Death of th« Duke of Wellington, Ode on the . . 13 'S' 174 General Index of Titles vol.. P.\C,F. Dcatli of the Flowers 14 Il8 Death of Thomson ' IS S9 Heath the Leveller 15 9 Death-Bed (.■tldruh) IS 1 36 Doath-Hcd (llooit) 15 131 Dejection; an Ode 13 103 iVlia 13 iHl Deliyht in Disorder 12 12$ Dennis ILigcerty's Wife 2I-Pt. I 20 Depravitv of Inanimate Things, Total .... 8-Pt. I 15 Deserted House 15 23 Destruction of Sennacherib II 183 Detached Thouchts on Books and Readine . . . 5-Pt.II 70 Devil and Tom Walter 3-1't.II 37 Diamond Wedding 7-Pt- I '07 Dianeme.To 12 123 Dibdin's Ghost 9-Pt.Il 44 Dirge, A IS 39 Dirge in Cymbeline IS H* Discipline IS 151 Discomforts of Travel 9-Pt.Il 123 Disdain Returned 12 133 Dissertation upon Roast Pig S-Pt.II 40 Distant Prospect of P'ton College, Ode on a . . 13 72 Diverting History of John Gilpin ... II 241 Divine Comedy — Longfellow's translation . . 13 240 Dr. Heidegger's Experiment 3-P'- ' 3 Dr. Samuel Johnson 2-Pt.Il 30 Dog and the Bees 7-Pt.II 10 Dora II II Doubting Heart 12 312 Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True 12 310 Douglas Tragedy, The 10 242 Dover Beach 14 279 Drake, Joseph Rodman (Hdleck) IS I04 Dream, The 12 137 Dream of Eugene Aram II 265 Dream-Children S-Pt.ll 34 Dream-Pedlary 12 227 Dreamers IS 223 Drear-nighted December, In a ..... . 12 268 Dred Scott Decision and the Declaration of Indepen- dence s-Pt- I 13 Duchess of Malfi, Shrouding of the 15 38 Duke of Wellington, Ode on the Death of the . 13 151 Dust 12 341 Dutch Lullaby 12 250 Duty, Ode to 13 96 Dying Christian to His Soul I? 169 Dying Gag 9-Pt. 11. I19 Each and All 14 262 General Index ot Titles 175 VOL. PAGE Earl o' Quarterdeck lO 3<» Early Morning _'3 ^^* Early Rising 9-Pt I 71 Early Spring 14 94 Earth's Easter IS 224 Easter IS "52 Echo 12 25 Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson .... 15 61 Elegy on Shake.'ipeare IS 4S Elegv Written in a Country Churchyard ... IS 12 Elf-Child The 8-Pt. I 34 Elixir, The IS 15° Ellizabeth of Bohemia 12 13S Emancipation Proclamation 5-Pt. I 90 Encouragements to a Lover 12 122 EndofthePlav 14 281 End of the World 9-Pt. I 120 England and America in 1782 12 209 England under the Restoration 2-Pt.II no English Mail-Coach 4-Pt.lI 107 Envoi . 15 200 Epilogue (Browning) 'S i43 Epitaph, An 7-Pt.II 128 Epitaph for Himself (/"raiiHrn) . ._. . . . 7-Pt. I 12 Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare 15 44 Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke .... 15 46 Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers 15 48 Epithalamion (Sunser) 13 20 Eplthalamium (Martin) 9-Pt.II 116 Essays (Lamh) ^'d'Jt ^ Essays (Macavlay) 2-Pt.II 3 Eternal Goodness t. 'I '^^ Ethan Brand 3-Pt. I 5S Eton College, Ode on a Distant Prospect of . . 13 72 Euganean Hills, Lines Written Among the . . . 14 61 Eugene .'Xram, Dream of 11 265 Eugenically Speaking 18 193 Eve " '11 Eve of St. Agnes „ ' I Eve's Daughter 9-Pt. I 102 Evelyn Hope IS 121 Evening 'S '75 Evening, Ode to 13 8s Evening Star, To the 12 47 Evening Wind '^ ^? F.vensong •> '? '' Everett, To Edward S-"t- 1 I20 Everyday Life, Poem of 9-Pt-II 148 Execution of Montrose i> 1? '''° Expert Testimony, On 9-Pt. II 13 20 I 211 3 176 General Index of Titles vol.. pac;e Fable of the Caddy 9-Pt.II 93 Faille of tlie Preacher 9-Pt.II 67 Fable of the Two Mandolin Players 9-Ft.II 131 Fair Helen of Kirconnell .....*... 10 233 Fair Ines 12 168 Fair Warning 9-Pt.II 155 Fairies, The lO 83 Fairy Days I-Pt. I i6l Fairy Life 12 Falcon, The 20-Pt.II Fall in! ic Fall of the House of Usher 4-Pt. I Family Horse 9-Pt. I 3 Fancy 13 143 Fancy Diseases 7-Pt. I 32 Harewell, A 12 199 Farewell at Springfield 5-Pt. I 70 Farewell to Arms 12 197 Farewell to Tobacco S-Pt-II 149 Fatal Thirst 7-Pt.II 148 Father Gilligan, Ballad of lo 314 Father Used to Make 9-Pt.II 71 Fear, The 15 zi6 " P'ear No More the Heat o' the Sun" .... '5 37 February 14 102 Fiddler of Dooney 14 310 Field's Little Joke 8-Pt. I 120 Finnigin to Flannigan 9-Pt. I 92 First Inaugural Address (Lincoln) .... S-Pt. I 74 First Piano in a Mining Camp 9-Pt. I 34 First Snow-Fall 15 135 Five Lives 7-Pt- I 39 Flight to Varennes 2-Pt. I 87 Flower in the Crannied Wall 13 280 Flowers 12 53 Flowers Without Fruit 15 184 Fly to the Desert 12 155 Follow Your Saint 12 103 Fool's Prayer II 263 For Annie 12 305 For the Baptist 13 107 Foreign Correspondence 7-Pt. I 77 Foreign Lands 12 248 Forerunners, The 14 265 Forest Hymn I4 34 Forget Not Yet 12 82 Forging of the Anchor I4 82 Forgotten Soul 10 308 Forsaken Merman 11 291 "Forts," On 8-Pt.II 69 Fortune and Men's Eyes 18 89 Fox and the Crow 7-Pt.II 122 General Index of Titles 177 VOL. PAGE Fragment on Slavery ^ ,, IX Frarvre: an Ode '3 99 "France," Name of • ■ , „ P, TT s, Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad 7-Pt.ll 82 French Fleet, Ballad of the , P, ? ^n French Revolution ?-"■ \ 79 Frenchman's Version tc 10 Friends Departed ,. i,a Fringed Gentian, lo the J* co From Pippa Passes ,! ,, Frost at Midnight It ,:, Frost To-night „ Pt I ilo Furnished Room " ,! A, Future, The A ',1a Future, To the I3 164 Garden, The Ho Gardener's Daughter 10 11 Gay Goshawk ,, p, 11 a. Gay Old Dog "-P^^I ,81 Gentle Complamt ,/w 1 Wt Gettysburg Address '^-Pt 1 131 Gh-^'y Galley ; ,.p,'| ]f^ Onosts , ,n_ Gibraltar, At . . • - o, P,n is G.ftoftheMagi ""P*" ^8 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey n 21S Girdle, On a lO 48 Glenkindie .^o Gloucester Moors ,, ,,A Go, Lovely Rose ic il° God's Way ^ Pr IT 107 Going down with Victory S^Pt II 9 Gold ^- ' - joir 9-Pt. 1 99 Gold-Seeking, On ic i?-) Golden Door Iz '58 Good Ale • ; gpj I -gy Good Reason ^^g Good-By lo-P' II 62 Gooseherd,The ».pt!ll 64 Orampv bmgs a Song . ,^ ill Grandmither, Think Not I Forget 14 3«3 Grant, To ^ 'j^ -q Grasshopper, The Pr I ac Grasshopper and the Ant °-j,J- J »> Gray Champion i",, ' t ''g Great American Traveler • ^;,;;,j Great Carbuncle p^ j , Great Stone race -" ,, 117 (irecian Urn, Ode on a '3 ^^ Green Linnet, 'I he 178 General Index of Titles VOL. PAOt Gridiron I9-Pt.H $9 GrowincOld 14 281 Gypsy Girl • . . . 14 293 Hail to the Chief 12 203 Hame, Hamc, Hame 12 309 Hans Brcitmann's Party 7-Pt. I 96 Happiest Heart 14 318 Happy Heart 12 223 Happy Life, Character of a 14 258 Hark, Harlr, the Lark 12 97 Harold Before Senlac U 31? Harp of the North, Farewell 12 286 Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls .... 12 288 Hart-Leap Well. 10 134 Haunting Beauty of Strychnine 9-Pt. I 135 He Came to Pay 7-Pt- I «02 He Rose to the Occasion 7-Pt- I 99 Health, A 12 178 Hear, Y'e Ladies 12 132 Heart, We Will Forget Him 13 282 Heart's Country 12 337 Height of the Ridiculous 8-Pt. I 118 Heiress 8-Pt. I 67 Helen of Kirconnell, Fair 10 233 Helen, To 12 176 Henderson, Elegy on Captain Matthew ... 15 61 Her Courtship 9-Pt.II 147 Her Hands 14 30O Her Letter 8-Pt. I 113 Her Reply 12 98 Her Triumph 12 89 Her Words 14 302 Heroes of the Titanic 10 305 Herve Riel 10 162 Hervey, Mr. William, On the Death of ... 15 80 Hester IS 7S High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire ... 10 263 Highland Mary 12 152 Hind Horn 10 25 Hints to Those That Would be Rich, Necessary . 6-Pt.n 160 His Dream 9-Pt.H 154 His Idea 8-Pt. I 148 His Last Request 8-Pt. I 122 History of England 2-Pt.n MO Hohenlinden 10 188 Home H 256 Home Life of Geniuses 9-Pt.n 5° Home-Thoughts from Abroad 12 57 Hood, On a Joke I Once Heard from the Late Thomas l-Pt. I 87 Hoosier and the Salt-Pile S-Pt.H 29 Horace, Truth about 9-Pt. I 17 General Index of Titles 179 VOL. R.\CE Horatian Ode 13 54 Hospital, In the I5 203 House and the Road •* 344 House of Life „ U ^57 House That Jack Built 7-Pt H II3 How Delicious Is the Winning „ '? '"5 How I Killed a Bear 9-Pt- I 57 How Many Times Do I Love Thee Dear? ... 12 158 How My Song of Her Began ...... 13 266 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 10 130 How to Hunt the Fox 8-Pt. I JO Humblebee, To the '" ,^ Hunting Song '2 230 Hussev, To Mistress Margaret n I? ' Hutchinson, To Miss (iami) S-Pt.Il 122 Hymn 12 317 Hymn of Pan 12 44 Hymn of Trust, A 15 164 Hymn to Diana 12 14 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty '3 121 Hymn to the Night 12 46 I Fear Thy Kisses 12 161 I Have a Rendezvous '5 215 I Know That All Beneath the Moon Decays . . 13 196 I Remember, I Remember 12 269 Ichabod '* '54 Idea I, '? '^- Ideal Husband to His Wife 9-Pt. I 103 Identified 7-Pt. I 21 If Doughty Deeds „ U '^^ If I Should Die To-night 9-Pt.II 7 II Penseroso p II '* Illustrated Newspapers 7-rt.ll 11 Immortality, Intimations of p M ^^ Imperfect Sympathies 5-rt.ll 21 In a Drear-nighted December 12 268 In a Lccturc-Room ^ r, M "^^ In Darkest Africa l6-Pt.II 97 In Flanders Fields IS 214 In Harbor IS 142 In Memoriam, Proem to „ 15 ^* In Society 9-Pt.II 108 In the Catacombs 9-Pt. 1 77 In the Hospital 15 203 In the Valley of Canteretz d 'i ^*' Inaugural Address, First {Lincoln) 5-Pt- ' 74 Inchcape Rock 10 1S3 Incident of the French Camp p '? *'^ Independence Hall Speech 5-P'- I 71 Indiap Serenade 12 159 i8o General Index of Titles vol.. PACK Infirm 9-Pt. I 115 Influence of Natural Objects . . . j. . . . 14 251 Inscription for a Fireplace 13 294 Intellectual Beauty, Hymn to 13 121 Intimations of Immortality, Ode 13 89 Into Battle 15 217 Invitation, The 15 163 Invocation 12 24 Irish Astronomy 8-Pt.II 79 Isaiah Beethoven I4 308 IsUs of Greece 14 75 It was A' for Our Riiihtfu' King 12 200 It Was Not in the Winter 12 167 It's a Queer Time 15 219 Ivry 10 194 Jackdaw of Rheims 11 173 an the Unrepentant 22-Pt.lI 136 Jeannot and Colin 22-Pt.I i Jefferson, Adams and 6-Pt. I 3 Jellyfish, Song of the 9-Pt.II 63 Jenny Kissed Me 12 158 Jim-Jam King of the Jon-Jons 9-Pt. I 118 ohn Anderson My Jo 12 245 John Gilpin, Diverting History of 11 241 John Henry at the Races 9-Pt.II 95 Johnson, Boswell's Life of {Carlyle) 2-Pt. I 32 Johnson, Dr. Samuel (Macaulay) 2-Pt.II 30 Joke I Once Heard from the Late Thomas Hood, On a I-Pt. I 87 Joseph Rodman Drake 15 104 'udgment of Indra 18 257 ulia's Clothes, Upon 12 124 _umping Frog 7-Pt. I 122 Just Like a Cat 8-Pt. I 152 Kemp Owyne 10 70 Kennebec Mariner, Tale of the 9-Pt. II 10 Kentucky Philosophy 9-Pt. II 72 Kilmeny 11 151 King Lived Long Ago, A 11 9 Kiss in the Rain 9-Pt. II 83 Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, On the . . . 4-Pt.II icxj Kubla Khan 14 80 L' Allegro 14 9 L'Arrabiata 20-Pt. I 130 La Belle Dame sans Merci 10 8s Labor 2-Pt. I 138 Lacrimae 15 41 Lady Mary Villiers, Epitap> on the 15 48 Lady of Shalott . , 10 73 J' I General Index of Titles i8i VOL. PACE Lagoon, The 22-Pt. I 17 Laird o' Cock pen 11 251 Lake of the Dismal Swamp II 83 Lament, A 12 266 Lament for Flodden 10 251 Lament of the Irish Emigrant IS 128 Land o' the Leal 12 311 Landingof the Pilgrim Fathers in New England. . lO 151 Laodamia II 143 Lark Now Leaves His Wat'ry Nest .... 12 131 Last Address in Public {Lincoln) S-Pt. I 102 Last Buccaneer 14 240 Last Leaf U 167 Last Word, The d '^ "^^ Latter-Day Warnings 7-Pt- J 34 Law Lecture, Notes for a S-P'- \ 7 Lazy Idle Boy, On a i-Pt. I 41 Lazy Roof 8-Pt- } 149 Learned Negro 9-Pt. I 45 Lecture-Room, in a d 'i ^^^ Legend of Mimir • . . . . 8-Pt. I 68 Letter: Biglow Papers 7-Pt.II 25 Letter of Recommendation, Model of a .... 7-Pt- I n Letters (Lamb) S-Pt.II 103 Letters (Lincoln) S-Pt- I 109 Letu's Diary, On '"d*,} "^ Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 4-Pt.ll 145 Life 14 260 Life Hid with Christ, A IS 186 Ligeia 4-Pt. I 37 Light of Stars I2 48 Lincoln, Abraham (Tay/or) 15 107 Lincoln the Man of the People 14 2q6 Lincoln, To Mrs S-Pt- { U3 I.incoln's Lost Speech 5-Pt- ' 127 Lines 14 253 Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills ... 14 61 Lines Written on a Banknote 13 273 Listeners, The 1 1 3^7 I.itanv to the Holy Spirit „ '5 '^8 Litcrarv Snobs, On I-Pt. I 24 Little fireeches 7-Pt. 1 45 Little Man. The 18 227 Little Peach 8-Pt. I 86 Little Swirl of Vers Libre 8-Pt. I 172 i.iving in the Country 7-Pt- I 82 I,iz-Town Humorist 8-Pt. I 48 Lochinvar 10 36 Locksley Hall 14 223 Longing 12 188 Lord Byron 2-Pt.lI 80 Lord Randal 10 ijS i82 General Index of Titles VOL. r^<;E Lord Ullin's Daughter lO 259 Lorraine .* . . . lO 306 Loss of the Royal George, On the 10 148 Lost Leader 12 289 Lost, Strayed or Stolen 7-Pt. I 101 Lotus-Eatcrs • . 14 135 Love (Coleridge) . lo 44 Love (Shakespeare) 12 93 Love Among the Ruins II 28 Love Is a Sickness 12 108 Love Letters of Smith 8-Pt. I 89 Love Not Me for Comely Grace 12 loj Love Sonc (Garrison) 12 338 Love Triumphant IS IJS Love's Kmbiems 12 29 Love's Philosophy . 12 160 Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas, To .... 12 129 Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To 12 198 Lucy IS 114 Lucy Gray 10 255 Lute, To His 13 198 Lycidas IS 52 Lyke Wake Dirge IS 35 Macbeth, On the Knocking at the Gate in . . . 4-Pt.II 100 Mc Clellan, To . S-Pt- I 109 Madonna of the Evening Flowers II 319 Madrigal 12 104 Magnolia Cemetery IS 34 Mahogany Tree 12 252 Maid, The 10 30S Maid of Ncidpath lO 39 Maid's Lament IS 1 19 Man and the Goose 9-Pt. I 85 Man Who Would Be King 21-Pt.II I Man with the Hoe 14 294 Man Without a Country 21-Pt.II S7 Man's Requirements 12 192 Manila 8-Pt. I 173 Manning, To (iflmi 5-Pt.lI Il2andll7 MS. Found in a Bottle 4-Pt- I 'OS Marco Bozzaris II 187 March 14 103 Mariana 14 162 Marion's Men, Song of 10 199 Markheim 20-Pt. I 103 Marshes of Glynn 14 SS Marv Morison 12 147 Mary, To (CooJ/iirf) 12 243 Mary, To I-Pt. I 168 Mather, To Dr 6-Pt.II 172 Maud Muller . . II 219 General Index of Titles 183 VOL. PAGE Maxims (Franklin) 7-Pt. I n May 14 104 May and Death '5 l?3 May I Join the Choir Invisible, O 'S 'oS May Is Building Her House 12 328 May-Tree, The 12 327 Meadows, To 12 35 Medicine Show 1° 213 Meeting at Night n '^i '^ Meeting of the Clabberhuses 8-Pt. 1 39 Melancholy „ w -^8 Melons 7-Pt.lI 41 Memorabilia (Browning) I4 IS^ Memorial Verses „ '4 ^Z Memory, A 9-Pt. I 116 Men of Old 14 133 Merlin and the Gleam n it '^^ Messages Received by Teachers, Some .... 7-Pt.II 144 Metaphysics 9-Pt.II 128 Midges Dance Aboon the Bum 1252 Military Snobs, On Some I-Pt- I lO Miller's Daughter I' 3i Milton, On 13 27- Minister's Black Veil -''S'l '°^ Minister's Wsoing ^'d I ^^ Miniver Cheevy 7-Pt- 1 147 Minstrel's Song „ '5 ^° Mirabeau ^-^'J 79 Mis' Smith 8-Ptn 77 Misconceptions „ '5 '^ Miss Albina McLush 7-Pt- J 25 Miss Malony on the Chinese Question .... 7-Pt.U 20 Mr. Travers's First Hunt ^2-P*-,J '35 Mrs. Johnson 8-Pt.II 107 Mistress Margaret Hussey, To 12 108 Model of a Letter of Recornmendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with 7-Pt- I II Modern Martyrdom 9-Pt.II 84 Monterey 10 206 Morning IS 173 Morning of Christ's Nativity, Ode on the ... 13 42 Morte d'Arthur D rr ^°* Mosquito, The 8-Pt.II 58 Mother and Poet II 297 Mother. I Cannot Wind My Wheel 12 273 Mother's Dream, The ^ n 'r? 'I' Motion for Prayers 6-Pt.II 162 Mountain Daisy, To a n if ^°° Mountain Gloom ''u 11 ^^ Mountain Glory l-Pt.II 59 Mummy's Foot iP-Pt. I 90 Murders in the Rue Morgue 19-Pt. I I 149 19 53 274 184 General Index of Titles vol.. p.\np Music hy the Choir • . . . . 7-Pt. I 118 Miisic-Poumiinj; 7-1't. I 80 MusK'al Instrument, A 12 "8'' My Anpilinc 9-Pt.li "24 My Aunt 7.Pt. J 23 My Choice 12 112 My Dark Ro,sjleen 12 210 My Days .Amoni; the Dead Are Past .... 14 261 My Dear and Only Love I I'ray 12 144 My Double and How He Undid Me .... 8-Pt. I 124 My Kamiliar 9-Pt. I 11; My Feet , , 8-I't! I My Financial Career 9-Pt.II My First Visit to Portland 8-Pt.li My Heart Leaps L'p 13 My Heart's in the Highlands 12 36 My Lady's Grave 12 319 My Lady's Tears] 12 99 My Lost ^'outh 12 263 My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose .... 12 149 My Psalm IS 189 My Sister's Sleep 15 ijy My Star 12 i;8 My Suhway Guard Friend ^-Pt. I 140 My Summer in a Garden 7-Pt. I 61 Name of France, The 15 224 Nameless F^pitaph, A 15 48 Napoleon Buonaparte, Ode to 13 log Natral and I'nnatral Aristokrats 7-Pt. I 48 Natural Ohjects, Influence of 14 251 Nature Ij 244 Necessary Hints to Those That Would Be Rich . 6-Pt. II 160 Necklace 2I-Pt. I 94 New World 1-5 250 New Year's Eve 5-Pt.ll 11 Nicht 13 221 Night After Christmas 9-Pt. I 75 Night at an Inn 18 i Night, Hymn to the 12 46 Night Is Near Gone 12 11 Night- Piece, The 12 128 Night, To 12 43 Nightingale, Ode to a 13 132 Nil Nisi Bonum I-Pt. I 130 1914-S — The Soldier 15 228 Noble and the Fmpty Hole 7-Pt. I 17 Nomenclature of the National Game .... 9-Pt. I 22 Nonsense Verses 9-Pt.II 28 Notes for a Law Lecture S-Pt. I 7 Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County . 7-Pt. I 122 Nuns Fret Not 13 175 General Index of Titles 185 VOL. PAGE Nymph's Song to Hylas 12 173 O Captain! My Captain! IS lOS O May I Join the Choir Invisible «S l8S O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? . . 12 92 O My Luve's Lilce a Red, Red Rose 12 149 O, Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley? 12 148 O That 't Were Possible 12 185 Oak, The 1+41 October U lO? Ode (Emerson) 13 167 Ode {Keats) 13 I3S Ode, Intimations of Immortality 13 89 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ... 13 72 Ode on a Grecian Urn 13 137 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington . . 13 ISI Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity ... 13 42 Ode on Venice I3IIS Oile to a Nightingale 13 13* Ode to Adversity 13 70 Ode to Duty 13 96 Ode to Evening 13 85 Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte 13 109 Ode to Psyche 13 139 Ode to the West Wind 13 129 Ode Written in 1745 IS 34 Of A' the Airts 12 151 "Off at Buffalo" 8-Pt. I 143 Oft. In the Stilly Night 12 217 Oh! Snacch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom .... 15 113 Oh! That We Two Were Maying 12 I7S Old China S-Pt.II 91 Old Familiar Faces IS 73 Old Grev Squirrel 14 306 Old Grimes 7-Pt- I '9 Old Ironsides 12 217 Old Woman of the Roads 14 311 Olivier Becaille, Death of 2I-Pt. I 53 On a Bust of Dante 14 IS2 On a Certain Ladv at Court 13 272 On a Day, Alack the Day 12 9S On a Gfidle 12 I32 On a Joke I Once Heard from the Late Thomas Hood i-Pt. I 87 On a Lazy Idle Boy I-Pt. I 41 On a Picture of Pcele Castle U 44 On Being Found Out I-Pt. I 104 On Clerical Snobs i-l't. I 15 On Cvclones 9-Pt. I 83 On Elizabeth L. H IS 47 (Jn Expert Testimony 9-Pt.II 13 On "Forts" 8 Pt.II 69 On Gold-Seeking 9-l't. I 99 1 86 General Index of Titles VOL. PAOF On His Sevcntv-fifth Birthday (Lanrfor) . ... 13 278 On Lett's Diary '. . . . '"Pt- I "S On Literary Snobs I-Pt. I 24 On Milton 13 272 On Sir Philip Sidney If 49 On Some Military Snobs I-Pf- ' JO On Some of the Old Actors 5-Pt.II 52 On the Contrary 9-Pt- I 70 On the Death of Mr. William Hervcy .... 15 80 On the Death of Thomson t> '5 ^^ On the Knockine at the (Jate in Macbeth . 4-Pt.II 100 On the Loss of the Royal George 10 148 On the Tombs in Westminster IS 45 On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year 12 27S On Time d '? ^" On University Snobs I-Pt- I '9 One Better 7-Pt- I " One Certainty 13 265 One-Hoss-Shav „ " 2^6 One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters 8-Pt.II 68 One Week 9-Pt.II 151 Only of Thee and Me 12 339 Opium, Pains of ^'P' }} 73 Opium, Pleasures of 4-Pt.II 31 Opportunity ., ' I ' Origin of the Banio ^'d " I ^^ Ostrirh and the Hen 8-Pt. I 45 Otterburn, Battle of 10 '7^ O-U-G-H 7-Pt. I 143 Our Share of Nieht to Bear 13 282 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 14 120 Out of the Mouths of Babes 9-Pt. I 14 Outcasts of Poker Flat 20-Pt. I 30 Outwitted 13 294 Over Hill, Over Dale 12 19 Over the Mountains '2 I14 Overtones n '? '■'^ OvcrwhelminE Saturday 22-Pt. 1 loi Owl-Critic, The 7-Pt. I 41 Oxen, The „ '5 ^°' Oysterman, Ballad of the 7-Pt. I 105 Ozymandias of Egypt '3 222 Pack, Clouds, Away „ I? '°7 Pains of Opium *'vt ^2 Palabras Grandiosas 9-Pt. I 58 Palladium 14 278 Paradaisi; Gloria 15 >92 ■ Parting at Morning t. If '5° Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock 22-Pt.II 64 Passion in the Desert, A 2i-Pt.n 107 Passionate Shepherd to His Love 12 97 General Index of Titles 187 VOL. PAGE Passions, The 13 8l Past and Present 2-Pt. I 138 Past, To the 13 161 Patent Gas Regulator 9-Pt.II 3 Patriot, The II 290 Patriotic Tourist 9-Pt.II 47 Peace 1-Pt.II 135 Peace (Vaughan) 15 160 Peele Castle, On a Picture of 14 44 Pembroke, Countess of, Epitaph 15 46 Penseroso, II 14 14 Pessimist. The 9-Pt. I 94 Petition to Time 12 252 Phillida and Corydon 12 ic6 Philomela 12 56 Philosopher and the Simpleton 8-Pt. I 46 Pibroch of Donald Dhu 12 201 Picture of Peele Castle, On a 14 44 Piece of Red Calico 8-Pt. I 105 Piece of String 2I-Pt.II 96 Pied Piper of Hamelin I! 163 Pilgrimage, The 12 314 Pillar of the Cloud 12 323 Pindaric Ode. . ' 13 37 Piping Down the Valleys 12 246 Pippa Passes, From 12 58 Pit and the Pendulum 2I-Pt. I 139 Place de la Concorde I5 226 Plain Language from Truthful James .... 11 234 Plea for Humor 8-Pt.lI 3 Pleasures of Opium 4-Pt.II 31 Pliocene Skull, To the 8-Pt. I 145 Plumbers 8-Pt. I 150 Pocahontas I-Pt. I 166 Poe-em of Passion 9-Pt.II 137 Poem of Ever>'day Life 9-Pt.II 148 Poet's Song to His Wife 12 242 Polite 7-Pt. I ^oc Polite Literature 2-Pt.II 119 Pomona's Novel 7-Pt.II 62 Poor Richard's Almanac 6-Pt.II 133 Porcelain Cups 22-Pt. I 38 PortLind, My First Visit to 8-Pt.II 53 Post-Impressionism 7-Pt. I 14c Poster Girl, The 8-Pt.II 92 Praise of His Lady 12 79 Pravcr of Cyrus Brown 9-Pt.II 8 Prehinoric Smith 9-Pt. I 20 Priestley, To Dr 6-Pt.II 167 Primrose, The 12 124 Prisoner in the Caucasus 19-Pt. I 141 Priioncr of Chillon II 191 1 88 General Index of Titles vol.. PAGK Private of the Buffs , II 284 Problem, The 14 268 Proem to In Mfinoriam IS 24 Procress of I'oesy .... 1 3 76 Prose and Rhyme. Ballad of 12 335 Prospice 15 14s Protnalamion {Spenser) 13 13 Proud Lady lO 296 Proud Maisie 10 258 Providence and the Guitar 19-Pt.ll 96 Psalm of Life 14 247 Psyche, Ode to 13 139 Pulley, The 15 153 Puritans, The 2-Pt.lI 23 Qua Cursum Ventus 12 317 Quiet Heart 55 "70 Rabbi Ben Ezra 14 I9I Rain in Summer 14 96 Ramon II 285 Raven, The lO 285 Recommendation, Letter of 7-Pt- I 'i Refuge IS 170 Relief of Luck now 11 184 Remarkable Dream 8-Pt. 1 79 Rendition, A 7-Pt. I 31 Reply to Committee on ElectoraJ Count . 5-Pt- I loi Reply to Hayne, From the 6-Pt. I 63 Requiem 15 '42 Requiescat 15 120 Resignation IS I3l Resolution and Independence II 48 Response to Serenade S"P*- ^ 98 Resurgam 13 292 Retreat, The IS 161 Return, The (Gfi/on) IS 217 Ret*rn, The (y<'aj«-) 12 243 To Mary Unwin 13 205 To Meadows 12 35 To Mistress Margaret Hussey 12 108 To Night 12 43 To l66th Ohio S-Pt- I 96 To Robert Browning 1+ 151 To Roses in the Bosom of Castara 12 116 TolSir Philip Sidney's Soul 13 181 To the Cuckoo (Logan) 12 37 To the Cuckoo {M ordjworth) 12 38 To the Dandelion 14 I16 To the Evening Star 12 47 To the Fringed Gentian 14 114 To the Future 13 164 To the Humblebee 12 64 To the Muses 12 287 To the Nightingale 12 16 To the Past 13 161 To the Pliocene Skull 8-Pt. I 145 To the Sister of Flia IS 76 To the Skylark (ff^'ordsuorth) 12 40 To the Unknown Eros 13 169 To the Virgins to Make Much of Time .... 12 125 To the West Wind, Ode 13 129 To Violets 12 35 To Wordsworth (Landor) 14 148 Total Depravity of Inanimate Things .... 8-Pt. I 15 Tovs, The 15 140 Tragedy of a Theatre Hat 9-Pt.II 50 Trees 12 329 Trees and the Master, Ballad of 12 316 Trees, Salute to the 14 290 Trial for Murder 2I-Pt. I I Tricksters 13 288 Triumphant Love, Song of 19-Pt. I 109 Trout, the Cat and the Fox, The 8-Pt.II 83 Trout's Appeal 7-Pt.II 147 Truth about Horace 9-Pt- I '7 Truthful James, Plain Language from ... II 234 Tryste Noel 15 202 Turkish Bath, At a 9-PtlI 74 Tushmaker's Toothpullcr 7-Pt.II 53 Twa Corbies, The 10 245 Two Boyhoods l-Pt.II 3 194 General Index of Titles VOL. PAOE Two Cases of Grip 8-Pt. I 50 Two Kishers 9-Pt.lI 102 Two in the Campapia 14 187 Two Races of Men S-Pt.ll 3 Ulalume II 302 lllvsses »4 «7S Unattainahle, The «-Pt. 1 44 Under the Greenwood Tree 12 21 Universal Prayer 15 '66 University Snobs, On I-Pt. 1 19 Unknown Beloved, The 10 309 Unknown Eros, To the 13 169 Unmarried Female 8-Pt.Il 26 Unwin, ToMary '3 20$ Up-Hi!l 12 322 Upon Julia's Clothes 12 124 Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife IS 47 Us Poets 8-Pt. 1 148 Vacation of Mustapha 8-Pt. I 3 Vagabond Song 12 330 Valley of Canteretz, In the 12 32« V-A-S-E, The 7-Pt.II 60 Venice l-Pt.II 73 Venice, Ode on 13 HJ Vers Libre, Little Swirl of 8-Pt. I 172 Verses (Ccnoper) 14 221 Vickery's Mountain 14 303 Victory of the "Rocket" Locomotive .... l6-Pt. I 163 Village Blacksmith 14 165 Villager and the Snake 9-Pt. 1 19 Villiers, Lady Mary, Epitaph on the .... 15 48 Violets, To , 12 35 Virtue f IS 154 Vision of Sir Launfal II 107 Vision of Sudden Death 4-Pt.II 119 Visit to Brigham Young 9-Pt. I 47 Vobiscum Est lope 12 105 Voice of the Heavens 15 '65 Voice of Toil 12 290 Voyage, The S-Pt-H 61 Wages 12 321 Wakefield 3-Pt. I 85 Waldcinsamkeit 14 39 Walloping Window-Blind 9-Pt.II 35 Waly, Waly, Up the Bank 10 28 Wandering Willie's Tale 20-Pt.II 75 Wanted— a Drink 9-Pt.n 150 Warm Welcome 8-Pt. I 116 Washington, To General 6-Pt.II 170 General Index of Titles 195 VOL. PACE Watch-Tower, The 2-Pt. I 129 Waterfowl, To a 13 147 We Are Seven 10 252 Weary Lot Is Thine 10 40 Wedding Journey 7-Pt- I 76 Weed, To Thurlow S-Pt- ^ 124 Weep You No More, Sad Fountains .... 12 100 Welcome, A 12 iii Wellington, Ode on the Death of the Duke of . . 13 151 Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain .... 13 183 Werther, Sorrows of (Thackeray) i-Pt. I 164 West Wind, Ode to the 13 129 Westminsrer Abbey 3-Pt.II 75 Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 12 73 What Constitutes a State.' 13 88 What He Wanted It For 9-Pt. I 90 What Mr. Robinson Thinks 7-Pt. I 115 What Rabbi Jehosha Said 14 282 What's in a Name? 9-Pt.II 103 Whaups, The 12 70 When Daisies Pied 12 18 When Icicles Hang by the Wall 12 22 When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly .... 13 273 When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas .... i-Pt. I 165 When the Lamp Is Shattered 12 274 When We Two Parted 12 163 W'higs and the Mexican War 5-Pt- I 3 Whistle, The 6-Pt.II 156 Whitefietd, George 6-Pt.II 108 Wife of Usher's Well, The 10 240 Wild Honeysuckle I4 II3 Will, The 14 259 Will, the {Donne) 15 '56 Will of God 15 181 Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus, And 12 81 Wind in the Rose-Bush 20-Pt.II 12 Wings 14 289 Winter Ride 12 331 Winter Wish 12 259 Wish, A 12 224 Wishes to His Supposed Mistress 12 117 Without and Within 8-Pt.II 72 Without Benefit of Clergy 19-Pt. I 54 Written in 174;, Ode I5 34 Wolfram's Dirge I? 42 Woman Who Helped Her Sister 9-Pt.M 81 Woman Who Used Her Theory 9-Pt.II 80 Woman Who Was Not Athletic 9-Pt.II 78 Woman'* Last Word 14 189 Wooing Song 12 lOl Wordsworth. To {I^mb) .... 5-Pt.II 114,120,136,143 Wordsworth, To (/.anior) 14 148 196 General Index of Titles VOL. PAGE Work and Sport 9-Pt.lI 87 Workingmeii of Manchester, To the .... S-Pt. I iij W'orUI, 1 he 14 24s Worlil-Soiil, The 12 ^9 World's Cireat Age Begins Anew 12 284 Woutcr Van Twiller 7-Pt. I 3 Wreck of the Hesperus 10 156 Yankee Recruit 7-Pt. I 52 Yarrow Unvisited 14 S3 Ye Mariners of England lO I^O Young Beichan lO 17 Young Dead, The IJ 213 Youth and Age 14 264 Youth and LoTC 12 231 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Tliis book is DUE on the last date stamped below AUG 8 m^ JAN 15 ^9^8 ID- ftPR 2^\^ URL RECEI\iED LD-UFL rt oO mo AM 7-4 4-9 PM ^- 10 Form L-9-15m-3,'34 Z Abbott - K'n'^^ll-.!^. 10Q5 ^"^^^ ...The guide 405 8 to reading. ^^'^T' APR ^ 3 1g38 UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNT UhtLAHX :i!iit!