he Lions_ _Leigh Hunt_
Three Scenes in the Tyrol _Richter_
_Marston Moor_ _William Mackworth Praed_
London _Goldwin Smith_
_How They Brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix_ _Robert Browning_
_An Incident of the French Camp_ _Robert Browning_
British Colonial and Naval Power "_Atlantic Monthly_"
_England, My England_ _William Ernest Henley_
_A Good Time Going_ _Oliver Wendell Holmes_
God is Our Refuge _Bible_
_Indian Summer_ _Susanna Moodie_
_The Skylark_ _James Hogg_
What is War _John Bright_
_The Homes of England_ _Felicia Hemans_
_To a Water-Fowl_ _William Cullen Bryant_
The Fascination of Light _Samuel T. Wood_
_Daffodils_ _William Wordsworth_
_To the Dandelion_ _James Russell Lowell_
True Greatness _George Eliot_
_The Private of the Buffs_ _Sir Francis Hastings Doyle_
Honourable Toil _Thomas Carlyle_
_On his Blindness_ _John Milton_
_Mysterious Night_ _Joseph Blanco White_
_Vitai Lampada_ _Henry Newbolt_
The Irreparable Past _Frederick W. Robertson_
_A Christmas Hymn, 1837_ _Alfred Domett_
_The Quarrel_ _William Shakespeare_
_Recessional_ _Rudyard Kipling_

The Good Land

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; a
land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a
land of oil olives and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless the Lord thy God
for the good land which He hath given thee.

Deuteronomy. VIII.

FOURTH READER

THE CHILDREN'S SONG

Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be,
When we are grown and take our