J. Fenimore Cooper_ 79
THE BUFFALO _Francis Parkman_ 96
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE _Alfred Tennyson_ 147
FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT _Robert Burns_ 149
BREATHES THERE THE MAN _Sir Walter Scott_ 151
HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE _William Collins_ 151
QUEEN VICTORIA _Anna McCaleb_ 152
THE RECESSIONAL _Rudyard Kipling_ 164
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 167
HOW'S MY BOY? _Sydney Dobell_ 169
THE SOLDIER'S DREAM _Thomas Campbell_ 170
MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY _James Montgomery_ 172
THE OLD CONTINENTALS _Guy Humphreys McMaster_ 175
THE PICKET-GUARD _Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers_ 177
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME _Stephen Collins Foster_ 179
THE FORSAKEN MERMAN _Matthew Arnold_ 180
TOM AND MAGGIE TULLIVER _George Eliot_ 186
A GORILLA HUNT _Paul du Chaillu_ 247
THE CLOUD _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 257
BRUTE NEIGHBORS _Henry David Thoreau_ 260
ODE TO A SKYLARK _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 275
THE POND IN WINTER _Henry David Thoreau_ 280
SALMON FISHING _Rudyard Kipling_ 285
WINTER ANIMALS _Henry David Thoreau_ 293
TREES AND ANTS THAT HELP EACH OTHER _Thomas Belt_ 306
THE FAMILY OF MICHAEL AROUT _Emile Souvestre_ 314
ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE _William Cowper_ 331
THOSE EVENING BELLS _Thomas Moore_ 340
ANNABEL LEE _Edgar Allan Poe_ 341
THE THREE FISHERS _Charles Kingsley_ 343
THE REAPER'S DREAM _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 345
THE RECOVERY OF THE HISPANIOLA _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 352
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER _Grace E. Sellon_ 381
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 391