Appletons' School Readers

[ due T 759.02.4511

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

GINN & COMPANY
MARCH 17, 1927

COPYRIGHT, 1878, 1879,

BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1902.

BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

I. The House of Usher..

II. The Haunted Palace.

III. Intelligent Reading..

IV. Winter ...

V. Marmion and Douglas.

VI. Ascent of Mount Ktaadn

VII. Virtue.

VIII. Rules of Behavior.

IX. Morning Sounds

X. The Hermit.

XI. The Survivors of the Battle of Bunker Hill

Daniel Webster.

William Collins.

..Laurence Sterne.

XII. Ode — How sleep the Brave !.

XIII. The Death of Le Fevre

XIV. How to render Matter-of-fact and Earnest Ideas

XV. The Battle of Hastings...

XVI. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

Mark Bailey.

. Caroline A. B. Southey.

XVII. The Nightingale

XVIII. Dotheboys Hall..

XIX. An April Day.......

XX. God's Dominion and Man's Dependence.

XXI. The Destruction of Sennacherib..

XXII. How to render Noble Ideas

XXIII. Earthquakes and Volcanoes.

64

.Edward Hitchcock. 71
George Herbert.

74

XXV. The Rescue of a Kitten..

XXVI. Sunset on the Border

XXVII. The Coyote.........

XXVIII. For a' that, and a' that.

XXIX. How to render Joyous Ideas...

XXX. Mignon's Song. Goethe (Thomas

XXXI. The Thirteen Colonies...

XXXII. The Vanity of Human Pride.

XXXIII. Frozen Words......

XXXIV. What constitutes a State? .

XXXV. The Effect of Paul's Preaching at Ephesus.

Henry Fielding.

.Sir Walter Scott.

.S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain).

..Robert Burns.

.Mark Bailey.

XL. Under the Greenwood Tree

XLI. Mexico as first seen by the

100

XXXVI. The Coronach ...

XXXVII. How to render Sad Ideas.....

105

XXXVIII. The Pauper's Deathbed...... Caroline A. B. Southey. 107

XXXIX. Mrs. Caudle urging the Need of Spring Clothing.

Douglas W. Jerrold. 109

William Shakespeare. 113

Spaniards.

XLII. Thanatopsis..

XLIII. Emmet's Vindication..

XLIV. Adieu to my Native Land

XLV. The Battle of the Ants..

XLVI. The Soldier's Dream

XLVII. Dr. Primrose in Prison..

XLVIII. Dialogue with the Gout...

XLIX. Absalom

....

Carlyle's translation).

William H. Prescott. 114

William Cullen Bryant. 117

.Robert Emmet. 120

..Lord Byron. 124

Henry D. Thoreau. 127

.Thomas Campbell. 131

..Oliver Goldsmith. 133

.Benjamin Franklin. 136

..N. P. Willis. 139

William Wirt. 144

.Bishop Berkeley. 147

LII. The Ascent to the Eagle's Nest.. ..John Wilson. 148

LIII. The Descent from the Eagle's Nest.....John Wilson. 153

LIV. The Hot Season

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 157

LV. How to render Scornful and Sarcastic Ideas.

L. The Blind Preacher

LVI. Hymn to the Night

LVII. Speech of Brutus

LVIII. "We watched her Breathing"
LIX. In the Maine Woods...

LX. Marco Bozzaris.

LXI. Giant Despair

LXII. Escape from Doubting Castle

LXIII. Mark Antony's Oration ....

LXIV. Sancho Panza's Government

LXV. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava.

PAGE

.H. W. Longfellow. 161

William Shakespeare. 162

Thomas Hood. 164

.Henry D. Thoreau. 165

Fitz-Greene Halleck. 169

John Bunyan. 171

John Bunyan. 176

William Shakespeare. 179

.M. de Cervantes.

186

LXVIII. The Mound Builders..

LXIX. The Deserted Village.

LXVI. The Charge of the Light Brigade....

LXVII. Winter ..

Alfred Tennyson. 190

W. H. Russell. 193

.Percy Bysshe Shelley. 195

T. W. Higginson. 196

Oliver Goldsmith. 200

LXX. The Valley of Humiliation..

LXXI. The Village Preacher......

John Bunyan. 204

Oliver Goldsmith. 207

...Mark Bailey. 209

..James Montgomery. 212

LXXII. How to render Humorous Ideas....

LXXIII. The Grave....

LXXIV. The Murderer can not keep his Secret.. Daniel Webster. 215

LXXV. The Shipwreck...

LXXVI. Hidden Beauties of Classic Authors..

.Lord Byron. 219

.N. P. Willis. 221

LXXVII. The Launch of the Ship.

.H. W. Longfellow. 222

.Henry D. Thoreau. 224

LXXVIII. Building the House.

LXXIX. Break, break, break.

LXXX. Walden Pond.

LXXXI. Lochinvar`.

Alfred Tennyson. 227

.Henry D. Thoreau. 228

.Sir Walter Scott. 232

LXXXII. How to render Impassioned Ideas... .Mark Bailey.

LXXXIII. How I learned to write Prose.....Benjamin Franklin.

LXXXIV. Translation of the Twenty-third Psalm. .Joseph Addison. 241

LXXXV. A Rill from the Town Pump ..Nathaniel Hawthorne. 243

LXXXVI. The Eve before Waterloo.

.Lord Byron. 249

LXXXVII. The Battle of Waterloo..

Victor Hugo. 252

LXXXVIII. The Defeat at Waterloo

LXXXIX. The Sublimity of God...

PAGE

XC. Poetic Reading. I.......

.Mark Bailey. 266

XCII. Each and All.

.Robert Burns.

XCI. Man's Physical and Mental Superiority....Daniel Webster. 274

R. W. Emerson. 275

Washington Irving. 278

Washington Irving. 283

Washington Irving. 287

291

..John Milton. 293

..Mark Bailey. 295

William Shakespeare. 300

Edward Everett. 302

Mark Bailey. 306

James G. Percival. 313

XCIII. Rip Van Winkle's Sleep....

XCIV. Rip Van Winkle's Return .

XCV. Rip Van Winkle's Recognition.

XCVI. Bannockburn.....

XCVII. The Liberty of the Press.

XCVIII. Poetic Reading. II..

XCIX. Puck and the Fairy..

C. The Wonders of Astronomy

CI. Poetic Reading. III...

CII. The Coral Grove.

CIII. The Glory of God..

CIV. The Happy Valley.

CV. The Dream of Clarence.

CVI. The Time for Moral and Intellectual Culture.

. William Shakespeare.

Thomas De Quincey.

324

.Robert Southey. 327

.Nathaniel Hawthorne.

332

Anonymous. 335

CVII. The Cataract of Lodore....

CVIII. My Oratorical Experience.

CIX. Confessions of a Bashful Man..

CX. Curran's Reply to Threats of Violence.

CXI. Bugle Song

John Philpot Curran, 339

Alfred Tennyson. 341

...Lewis Carroll. 342

CXII. The Mock Turtle's Story

CXIII. Evening

.Oliver Wendell Holmes. 345

CXIV. Benefits of Inventions and Discoveries..John C. Calhoun. 348

CXV. The Bivouac of the Dead..... .....Theodore O'Hara. 351

CXVI. Influence of the Translation of the Bible upon Litera-

William Hazlitt.

354

ture...

CXVII. Song of the Silent Land.

J. G. von Salis (Longfellow's translation). 356

CXVIII. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...

Anonymous. 357

.Lord Byron. 362

CXIX. Darkness-a Dream

CXX. God's Mightiness and Tenderness... Psalms CII. and CIII. 365

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Appletons' School Readers: (five Book Edition)