rom the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Rudyard
Kipling, and Flora Annie Steel; to Smith, Elder & Co., for the extract
from F. T. Bullen's "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to Elkin Mathews for
Henry Newbolt's poem from "The Island Race"; to Sampson Low, Marston &
Company for the extract from R. D. Blackmore's "Lorna Doone"; to Thomas
Nelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier's "History of the
British Empire"; to Chatto and Windus for the extract from E. B. Osborn's
"Greater Canada"; to Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Chase" from
Charles Dudley Warner's "A-Hunting of the Deer," "Mary Elizabeth" by
Mrs. Phelps Ward, and the poems by Celia Thaxter and by Richard Watson
Gilder; to The Century Company for Jacob A. Riis' "The Story of a Fire"
from "_The Century Magazine_"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for the
selections from Charles G. D. Roberts' works; to The Westminster Co.,
Limited, for the extract from "Ralph Connor's" "The Man from Glengarry."

The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others,
not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to include
in this Reader so many copyright selections.

Toronto, May, 1909.

CONTENTS

PAGE

_To-day_
_Thomas Carlyle_
1

Fortune and the Beggar
_Ivan Kirloff_
2

_The Lark and the Rook_
_Unknown_
4

The Pickwick Club on the Ice
_Charles Dickens_
6

_Tubal Cain_
_Charles Mackay_
11

Professor Frog's Lecture
_M. A. L. Lane_
14

_A Song for April_
_Charles G. D. Roberts_
25

How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune
_P. J. Stahl_
26

_The Battle of Blenheim_
_Robert Southey_
31

The Ride for Life
_"Ralph Connor"_
34

_Iagoo, the Boaster_
_Henry W. Longfellow_
39

The Story of a Fire
_Jacob A. Riis_
40

_The Quest_
_Eudora S. Bumstead_
43

The Jackal and the Partridge
_Flora Annie Steel_
44

_Hide and Seek_
_Henry Van Dyke_
50

The Burning of the "Goliath"
_Dean Stanley_
52

_Hearts of Oak_
_David Garrick_
55

_A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea_
_Allan Cunningham_
56

The Talents
_Bible_