scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this scepter'd sway; 10
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,-- 15
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

--_The Merchant of Venice._

1. Read this extract line by line, and interpret
its meaning. Then read the whole of it aloud as
Portia spoke it.

GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

The following list of book titles suggests some good
library browsing for you. Try reading one good
book a week outside of school hours. Aside from the
immediate pleasure and knowledge derived, you will thus
establish an invaluable habit and set up for yourself
standards of literary judgment.

Alcott's _Eight Cousins_
Aldrich's _Story of a Bad Boy_
Baldwin's _Discovery of the Old Northwest_
Baldwin's _Fifty Famous Rides and Riders_
Baldwin's _Old Greek Stories_
Brown's _Rab and his Friends_
Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_
Burnett's _Secret Garden_
Burroughs's _Bird Stories_
Burroughs's _Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers_
Clemens's _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_
Clemens's _Adventures of Tom Sawyer_
Clemens's _Prince and the Pauper_
Clemens's _Roughing It_
Cooke's _Stories of the Old Dominion_
Cooper's _Deerslayer_
Cooper's _Pathfinder_
Cooper's _Spy_
Dana's _Two Years before the Mast_
Dickens's _Child's History of England_
Dickens's _Christmas Carol_
Dickens's _Cricket on the Hearth_
Dickens's _Nicholas Nickleby_
Dickens's _Pickwick Papers_
Garland's _Boy Life on the Prairie_
Guerber's _Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages_
Hill's _On the Trail of Washington_
Holland's _Historic Boyhoods_
Holland's _Historic Girlhoods_
Howells's _Stories of Ohio_
Hughes's _Tom Brown at Rugby_
Irving's _Sketch Book_
Kipling's _Captains Courageous_
Kipling's _Jungle Books_
Lamb's _Tales from Shakespeare_
London's _Call of the Wild_
Longfellow's _Courtship of