READINGS AND RECITATIONS

NUMBER SIXTEEN

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY

FOWLER MERRITT

NEW YORK
EDGAR S. WERNER

1897

Ibr. 672

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African Mother, The ..

Barbara Blue.-Alice Cary

Bashful Man, The . .

Bijah.-Charles M. Lewis .

Butterfly's Ball, The.—Mrs. Henry Roscoe .

Chariot-Race in the Time of Christ, A.-Edgar Saltus .

Christmas Eve Redemption, A.-Hamilton Aidé

Crack-Mouthed Family, The .

Crippled Joe.—Rose Hartwick Thorpe .

Cupid's Arrows.-Rudyard Kipling

Daughter of Herodias, The .

Deacon's Confession, The.-N. S. Emerson .

Death of Arnkel, The.-Edmund Gosse

Death of Uncle Tom, The.-Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dilemma, The.—Oliver Wendell Holmes .

Dr. Lanyon's Story.- Robert Louis Stevenson

Egyptian Slippers. - Edwin, Arnold

Fairies, The --William Alingham

Faithful unto Death. 3 Clifford Harrison

Falstaff and Prince Hal. ---William Shakespeare

Fiery Ordeal, The .

Files-on-Parade.—Rudyard Kipling;

Good Enough fer Me

Hagar.-Eliza Poitevent Nicholson

Hostage, The. - Frederick Schiller .

House on the Hill, The.-Edgar Fawcett ..

How Dot Heard “The Messiah.”—Hezekiah Butterworth.

In the Children's Hospital. --Alfred Tennyson

In the Nursery.-Jean Ingelow

In the Royal Academy.-Austin Dobson.

Japanese Lullaby.--Eugene Field
Last Time I Met Lady Ruth, The.-Owen Meredith.

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Lost Leader, The.--Robert Browning

Matrimonial Controversy, A..

Mountain Tragedy, The.-Charles Dickens .

Mr. Winkle's Adventure.-Charles Dickens

Nellie Walsh.—Charles Barnard .

Paddy Moore.-Fred Emerson Brooks

Rhyme of Jennie Eaglehart, The

Ride of Ichabod Crane, The.- Washington Irving.

Sohrab and Rustum.-Matthew Arnold

Story of Ruth Bonython, The.—John Greenleaf Whittier

Surgeon's Child, The.-Frederic E. Weatherly

Tears of Tullia, The.-Edgar Fawcett

To-Morrow.–Alfred Tennyson

"Too Many Chillun, Pa ?”

Tricksey's Ring.–Alice Cary

Uncle Eph's Heaven.-Fred Emerson Brooks

Unrest in Paradise

When Sparrows Build.—Jean Ingelow

Youth and Art.-Robert Browning

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INDEX TO AUTHORS.

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Aidé, Hamilton .
Allingham, William.
Arnold, Edwin .
Arnold, Matthew
Barnard, Charles
Brooks, Fred Emerson
Browning, Robert .
Butterworth, Hezekiah .
Cary, Alice . .
Dickens, Charles.
Dobson, Austin .
Emerson, N. S. .
Fawcett, Edgar .
Field, Eugene
Gosse, Edmund .
Harrison, Clifford .
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Ingelow, Jean
Irving, Washington
Kipling, Rudyard .
Lewis, Charles M.
Meredith, Owen.
Nicholson, Eliza Poitevent.
Roscoe, Mrs. Henry .
Saltus, Edgar
Schiller, Frederick .
Shakespeare, William .
Stevenson, Robert Louis .

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