1. Selections to Study..

3. JOHN G. WHITTIER, 1807-.

Gift of Tritemius; Frost Spirit; Lines on a Portrait; Snow - Bound; Skipper Ireson's Ride; Trust; Three Bells; Eternal Goodness.

2. Collateral Study. - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac (Riverside Literature Series).

3. Manual Study. Benjamin Franklin.

4. Supplementary Reading. McMasters's Life of Benjamin Franklin.

5. Editions. Snow-Bound, and Among the Hills; Mabel Martin, and other Poems (Riverside Literature Series 1). Select Poems (Miss Hodgdon's "Leaflet " edition). Select Poems (Modern Classics edition).

4.-OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774.

1. Selections to Study.- Deserted Village; Traveller; Selections from Vicar of Wakefield.

2. Collateral Study. Selections from Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Selections from De Foe's Robinson Crusoe (Classics for Children edition 2).

3. Manual Study. — First great writers of fiction: De Foe, Richardson, Swift, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett. Dr. Johnson.

4. Supplementary Reading. Irving's Life of Goldsmith; chap. xiii. of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson; Macaulay's Essays on Goldsmith and Dr. Johnson. 5. Editions. Deserted Village, and Traveller (Macmillan's English Classics). Select Poems (Rolfe's English Classics). Deserted Village, and Traveller; Vicar of Wakefield (abridged), (English Classic Series).

5.- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, 1794-1878.

1. Selections to Study.

The White-footed Deer; To a Water-Fowl; Death of the Flowers; Thanatopsis; Green River; Evening Wind; Crowded Street; Autumn Woods; Fringed Gentian; Summer Wind; The Past; Hymn to the North Star; Planting of the Apple-Tree.

2. Collateral Study. of Sir Launfal.

- Edgar A. Poe's Raven, The Gold Bug; Lowell's Vision

3. Manual Study. — Edgar A. Poe, N. P. Willis, Fitz-Greene Halleck, James Russell Lowell.

4. Supplementary Reading. — John Bigelow's Life of Bryant; Symington's Sketch of Bryant.

5. Editions. Select Poems (English Classic Series). Select Poems (Miss Hodgdon's "Leaflet " edition). Alden's Studies in Bryant.

I A series of thirty or more little books, in paper, including selections from the best American authors, averaging about seventy pages each, and sold for 15 cents each.

2 A series of twenty or more volumes of the select works of standard authors. Price, from 25 to 50 cents each.

6. -THOMAS GRAY, 1716-1771.

1. Selections to Study. Elegy in a Country Churchyard; The Bard; Prog

ress of Poesy.

2. Collateral Study. — Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings; Burke's Speech on American Taxation (abridged). (English Classic Series.)

3. Manual Study.—Macaulay, Edmund Burke.

4. Supplementary Reading. — Gosse's Life of Gray (English Men of Letters Series).

5. Editions.

Select Poems (Rolfe's English Classics). Select Poems (English Classic Series). Select Poems (Clarendon Press Series).

7.- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864.

1. Selections to Study. From the Twice-Told Tales: Little Annie's Ramble; Gentle Boy; Sister Years; Edward Fane's Rosebud. From Mosses from an Old Manse: The Old House; A Select Party; Celestial Railroad; Intelligence Office; Earth's Holocaust. From Snow Image and Twice-Told Tales: Snow Image; Great Stone Face; Canterbury Pilgrims; Wives of the Dead; Little Daffydowndilly.

2. Collateral Study.- Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem on Monadnoc; essays on Behavior, from The Conduct of Life, and Books, from Society and Solitude.

3. Manual Study.-James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bayard Taylor, Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

4. Supplementary Reading.-J. R. Lowell's Life of Hawthorne; article in Fields's Yesterday with Authors.

5. Editions. True Stories from New-England History; Grandfather's Chair; Biographical Stories; Tanglewood Tales (Riverside Literature Series). Twice-Told Tales (Modern Classics Series).

8.- ROBERT BURNS, 1759-1796.

1. Selections to Study. Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy; Banks of Doon; Highland Mary.

2. Collateral Study. — Collins's Ode to Evening; Shelley's Skylark; Keats's Eve of St. Agnes.

3. Manual Study. Collins, Shelley, Keats.

4. Supplementary Reading.

Burns.

Shairp's Life of Burns; Carlyle's Essay on

5. Editions. —Select Poems (English Classic Series). Select Poems (Hud

son's English Authors).

9.OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-.

1. Selections to Study..

Last Leaf; My Aunt; Living Temple; Under the Violets; Chambered Nautilus; Old Ironsides; Stethoscope Song; Deacon's Masterpiece; Hymn of Trust; Voyage of the Good Ship Union ; Union and Liberty.

2. Collateral Study. - Daniel Webster's Bunker Hill Monument Orations; Oration on Adams and Jefferson (English Classic Series).

3. Manual Study. - Daniel Webster, John G. Saxe.

4. Supplementary Reading. — Holmes's Sketch of Motley.

5. Editions. Select Poems (Miss Hodgdon's "Leaflet" edition). Favorite Poems (Modern Classics Series). Select Prose (Modern Classics Series).

10. SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832.

1. Selections to Study.-Jeanie Deans pleading for her Sister's Life, from Heart of Mid Lothian; The Escape from the Cliffs, from The Antiquary. Selections from Ivanhoe, Talisman, Kenilworth.

2. Collateral Study. — Campbell's Battle of the Baltic, and Lochiel's Warning. Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality.

3. Manual Study. Thomas Campbell, William Wordsworth.

4. Supplementary Reading. Hutton's Life of Scott (English Men of Letters Series). Donald G. Mitchell's Old Story-Tellers.

5. Editions. — Lady of the Lake; Marmion; Lay of the Last Minstrel (Rolfe's English Classics). Lady of the Lake; Marmion (English Classic Series). Lady of the Lake; Marmion; Lay of the Last Minstrel (Globe Reading Series). Talisman; Quentin Durward; Monastery; Guy Mannering; Ivanhoe (Classics for Children).

11.- ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-.

1. Selections to Study. - Dora; Lady Clare; Lord of Burleigh; In the Chil dren's Hospital; Defence of Lucknow; Ulysses; Sir Galahad; Enoch Arden; Death of the Old Year; St. Agnes' Eve; Sea Dreams; Lady of Shalott; Margaret; Blackbird; Godiva; Lotus-Eaters; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.

2. Collateral Study.

Select Poems from Mrs. Browning (English Classic Series); Select Poems from Robert Browning (Rolfe's English Classics). 3. Manual Study. Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning, Jean Ingelow.

4. Supplementary Reading. Fields's Yesterday with Authors.

5. Editions. - Enoch Arden, and Lotus Eaters; Two Voices; Elaine; In Memoriam (English Classic Series). The Princess; Young People's Tennyson; Select Poems; Enoch Arden, and other Poems (Rolfe's English Classics). Select Poems (Modern Classics).

12.-JOSEPH ADDISON, 1672-1719.

1. Selections to Study. From the Spectator: Vision of Mirza (No. 159); Sir Roger in the Country (No. 106); Sir Roger at Church (No. 112); Death of Sir Roger (No. 517); Sir Roger at Westminster Abbey (No. 329); On the Use of Time (No. 93); Immortality (No. 111); Laughter and Ridicule (No. 249); Tale of Marraton (No. 50); Dreams (No. 487); On the Idea of God (No. 531); Cheerfulness (No. 381); Time and Eternity (No. 575).

2. Collateral Study.- Dryden's Alexander's Feast; selections from Pope's Essay on Man.

3. Manual Study. - Dryden, Steele, Lady Montagu, Pope.

4. Supplementary Reading.— Macaulay's Essay on Addison.

5. Editions. Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (English Classic Series). Essays from The Spectator (Hudson's English Classics).

13. LORD BYRON, 1788-1824.

1. Selections to Study. Prisoner of Chillon. Selections from Childe Harold: 1. Good Night (Canto I.); 2. Lake Leman (Canto III., stanza 85); 3. Waterloo (Canto III., stanza 21); 4. Gibbon and Voltaire (Canto III., stanza 105); 5. Venice (Canto IV., stanza 1); 6. A Woman's Grace (Canto IV., stanza 99); 7. Time (Canto IV., stanza 130); 8. Gladiator (Canto IV., stanza 140); 9. Apostrophe to the Ocean (Canto IV., stanza 179).

2. Collateral Study.- Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

3. Manual Study. — Coleridge, Robert Southey.

4. Supplementary Reading. — Macaulay's Essay on Byron; Southey's Life of Nelson.

5. Editions. Childe Harold (Rolfe's English Classics).

Childe Haroid

(Clarendon Press Series). Select Poems (Franklin Square Library).

1. Selections to Study. — On Receipt of my Mother's Picture; John Gilpin; Alexander Selkirk; Religious Hymns.

2. Collateral Study. — Selections from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; Selections from Cowper's Letters.

3. Manual Study. - John Bunyan. Great historians: Hume, Gibbon, Rob

ertson.

4. Supplementary Reading. - Goldwin Smith's Life of Cowper; Macaulay's Essay on Bunyan.

5. Editions. -The Task (English Classic Series). The Task (Clarendon Press Series).

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1. Selections to Study.

(See chap. xxi.) See "Study of the English Classics" (chap. xvi. p. 199).

2. Collateral Study. Selections from Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, and Ben Jonson's Every Man in his own Humour; Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Clarendon Press Series).

3. Manual Study. Chaucer. Elizabethan dramatists: Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Ford, Webster.

4. Supplementary Reading. Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare, selected (English Classic Series). The same, nearly complete (Classics for Children). Mrs. Jameson's Characteristics of Shakspeare's Women. Hudson's Life, Art, and Characters of Shakspeare.

16.- JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674.

1. Selections to Study.― Lycidas; Comus; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso. 2. Collateral Study. Spenser's Prothalamion; Bacon's Essays on Studies, Death, Goodness, Cunning.

3. Manual Study. - Lord Bacon, Edmund Spenser. Great theologians: Isaac Barrow, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, South, Fuller.

4. Supplementary Reading.—Macaulay's Essay on Milton.

5. Editions. — Paradise Lost (Books I. and II.), and Lycidas (Sprague's English Classics). Paradise Lost (Book I.); Lycidas; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Comus; Samson Agonistes (Clarendon Press Series). The same poems (English Classic Series).