SERIES OF READING BOOKS

EDITED BY

JOHN G. CROMWELL, M.A.

PRINCIPAL OF ST MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA.

SIXTH BOOK.

LONDON:

GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET;
LIVERPOOL: CAXTON BUILDINGS, SOUTH JOHN STREET, AND
49 & 51 SOUTH CASTLE STREET.

3987

1875.

BUDLEMM

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Editor and Compiler of this little volume desire to offer their sincere thanks to those Authors and Publishers, without whose kindness and co-operation the task of preparing a Reading Book of progressive literature would have been quite hopeless.

Thanks are especially due to Messrs Rivington, Longman, Murray, Strahan, Oliver & Boyd; and to Canon Ellison, Mr Hoyle, the Rev. Arthur Rigg, Mr Wm. Lawson, and Dr Edward Smith.

9. "Hymn of Heavenly Beauty," . Spenser

10. Biographical Sketch of Addison.

11. The Commerce of England in

Shakespeare.

Addison

From the "

34

Spectator"

37

Shakespeare

42