SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY.

Title.  Author. 1.  The Good Reader 2.  The Bluebell 3.  The Gentle Hand T. S. Arthur. 4.  The Grandfather C. G. Eastman. 5.  A Boy on a Farm C. D. Warner. 6.  The Singing Lesson Jean Ingelow. 7.  Do not Meddle 8.  Work Eliza Cook. 9.  The Maniac 10.  Robin Redbreast W. Allingham. 11.  The Fish I Did n’t Catch Whittier. 12.  It Snows Mrs. S. J. Hale. 13.  Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded 14.  The Sands o’ Dee Charles Kingsley. 15.  Select Paragraphs Bible. 16.  The Corn Song Whittier. 17.  The Venomous Worm John Russell. 18.  The Festal Board 19.  How to Tell Bad News 20.  The Battle of Blenheim Southey. 21.  I Pity Them 22.  An Elegy on Madam Blaize Goldsmith. 23.  King Charles II. and William Penn Mason L. Weems. 24.  What I Live For 25.  The Righteous Never Forsaken 26.  Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt. 27.  Lucy Forrester John Wilson. 28.  The Reaper and the Flowers.  Longfellow. 29.  The Town Pump Hawthorne. 30.  Good Night Peter Parley. 31.  An Old-fashioned Girl Louisa M. Alcott. 32.  My Mother’s Hands 33.  The Discontented Pendulum.  Jane Taylor. 34.  The Death of the Flowers Bryant. 35.  The Thunderstorm Irving. 36.  April Day Mrs. C. A. Southey. 37.  The Tea Rose 38.  The Cataract of Lodore Southey. 39.  The Bobolink Irving. 40.  Robert of Lincoln Bryant. 41.  Rebellion in Massachusetts State Prison J. T. Buckingham. 42.  Faithless Nelly Gray Hood. 43.  The Generous Russian Peasant Nikolai Karamzin. 44.  Forty Years Ago 45.  Mrs. Caudle’s Lecture Douglas Jerrold. 46.  The Village Blacksmith Longfellow. 47.  The Relief of Lucknow “London Times.” 48.  The Snowstorm Thomson. 49.  Behind Time 50.  The Old Sampler Mrs. M. E. Sangster. 51.  The Goodness of God Bible. 52.  My Mother 53.  The Hour of Prayer Mrs. F. D. Hemans. 54.  The Will 55.  The Nose and the Eyes Cowper. 56.  An Iceberg L. L. Noble. 57.  About Quail W. P. Hawes. 58.  The Blue and the Gray F. M. Finch. 59.  The Machinist’s Return Washington “Capital.” 60.  Make Way for Liberty James Montgomery. 61.  The English Skylark Elihu Burritt. 62.  How Sleep the Brave William Collins. 63.