1.The Gold Bug.By Edgar Allan Poe.2.Rab and his FriendsandMarjorie Fleming.By John Brown, M.D.3.The Culprit Fay.By Joseph Rodman Drake.4.Our Best Society.By George William Curtis.5.Sonnets from the Portuguese.By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.6.The School for Scandal.By Richard Brinsley Sheridan.7.The Rivals.By Richard Brinsley Sheridan.8.The Good-Natured Man.By Oliver Goldsmith.9.Sweetness and Light.By Matthew Arnold.10.Lyrics.By Robert Browning.11.L’Allegro and Il Penseroso.By John Milton.12.Thanatopsis, Flood of Years, etc.By William Cullen Bryant.13.Charity and Humor, and Nil Nisi Bonum.By William M. Thackeray.14.She Stoops to Conquer.By Oliver Goldsmith.15.Nothing to Wear.By William Allen Butler.16.Rime of the Ancient Mariner.By Samuel T. Coleridge.17.Elegy in a Country Churchyard, etc.By Thomas Gray.18.The House of Life.By Dante Gabriel Rossetti.19.Lays of Ancient Rome.By Lord Macaulay.20.Epictetus, Selections from.21.Marcus Aurelius. Thoughts.22.Sesame and Lilies.By John Ruskin.23.The Rose and the Ring.By William M. Thackeray.24.The Nibelungen Lied.By Thomas Carlyle.25.Ideas of Truth.By John Ruskin.26.Eve of St. Agnes.By John Keats.27.King of the Golden River.By John Ruskin.28.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.By Washington Irving.29.Rip Van Winkle.By Washington Irving.30.Ideals of the Republic.31.Verses and Flyleaves.By Charles S. Calverley.32.Novels by Eminent Hands.By W. M. Thackeray.33.Cranford.By Mrs. Gaskell.34.Vicar of Wakefield.By Oliver Goldsmith.35.Tales by Heinrich Zschokke.36.Rasselas.By Samuel Johnson.37.Shakespeare’s Sonnets.38.Wit and Humour of Charles Lamb.39.The Travels of Baron Munchausen.40.The Fables of Æsop.41.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.42.The Sayings of Poor Richard.By Benjamin Franklin.43.A Christmas Carol.By Charles Dickens.44.The Cricket on the Hearth.By Charles Dickens.45.The Blessed Damozel.By D. G. Rossetti.46.The Story without an End.By F. W. Carové.47.The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.48.Father Tom and the Pope.By Samuel Ferguson.49.Love and Skates.By Theodore Winthrop.50.The Princess.By Alfred Tennyson.51.The Child in the House.By Walter Pater.52.The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.53.The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti.54.On Friendship.By R. W. Emerson and Marcus Tullius Cicero.55-56.The Sketch-Book.By Washington Irving. 2 vols.57.Robert Louis Stevenson.By Leslie Stephen.58.Some of the Essays of Francis Bacon.59.The Apology of Socrates together with the Crito, as recorded by Plato.60.The Phaedo: The Death of Socrates, as recorded by Plato.61-62.Essays of Elia.By Charles Lamb.63.Three Essays.By Thomas De Quincey.64.The Battle of Dorking.By Major-General George Chesney.65.Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum.Translated by Rev. C. Swan.66.Letters and Maxims.By Lord Chesterfield.67.Peter Schlemihl.By Adelbert Chamisso.With plates by George Cruikshank.68.A Fable for Critics.By James Russell Lowell.69.Virginibus Puerisque.By Robert Louis Stevenson.70.True Americanism.Four Essays. By Theodore Roosevelt.71.The Word for the Day.Compiled by A. R.
1.The Gold Bug.By Edgar Allan Poe.
2.Rab and his FriendsandMarjorie Fleming.By John Brown, M.D.
3.The Culprit Fay.By Joseph Rodman Drake.
4.Our Best Society.By George William Curtis.
5.Sonnets from the Portuguese.By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
6.The School for Scandal.By Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
7.The Rivals.By Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
8.The Good-Natured Man.By Oliver Goldsmith.
9.Sweetness and Light.By Matthew Arnold.
10.Lyrics.By Robert Browning.
11.L’Allegro and Il Penseroso.By John Milton.
12.Thanatopsis, Flood of Years, etc.By William Cullen Bryant.
13.Charity and Humor, and Nil Nisi Bonum.By William M. Thackeray.
14.She Stoops to Conquer.By Oliver Goldsmith.
15.Nothing to Wear.By William Allen Butler.
16.Rime of the Ancient Mariner.By Samuel T. Coleridge.
17.Elegy in a Country Churchyard, etc.By Thomas Gray.
18.The House of Life.By Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
19.Lays of Ancient Rome.By Lord Macaulay.
20.Epictetus, Selections from.
21.Marcus Aurelius. Thoughts.
22.Sesame and Lilies.By John Ruskin.
23.The Rose and the Ring.By William M. Thackeray.
24.The Nibelungen Lied.By Thomas Carlyle.
25.Ideas of Truth.By John Ruskin.
26.Eve of St. Agnes.By John Keats.
27.King of the Golden River.By John Ruskin.
28.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.By Washington Irving.
29.Rip Van Winkle.By Washington Irving.
30.Ideals of the Republic.
31.Verses and Flyleaves.By Charles S. Calverley.
32.Novels by Eminent Hands.By W. M. Thackeray.
33.Cranford.By Mrs. Gaskell.
34.Vicar of Wakefield.By Oliver Goldsmith.
35.Tales by Heinrich Zschokke.
36.Rasselas.By Samuel Johnson.
37.Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
38.Wit and Humour of Charles Lamb.
39.The Travels of Baron Munchausen.
40.The Fables of Æsop.
41.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
42.The Sayings of Poor Richard.By Benjamin Franklin.
43.A Christmas Carol.By Charles Dickens.
44.The Cricket on the Hearth.By Charles Dickens.
45.The Blessed Damozel.By D. G. Rossetti.
46.The Story without an End.By F. W. Carové.
47.The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
48.Father Tom and the Pope.By Samuel Ferguson.
49.Love and Skates.By Theodore Winthrop.
50.The Princess.By Alfred Tennyson.
51.The Child in the House.By Walter Pater.
52.The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
53.The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti.
54.On Friendship.By R. W. Emerson and Marcus Tullius Cicero.
55-56.The Sketch-Book.By Washington Irving. 2 vols.
57.Robert Louis Stevenson.By Leslie Stephen.
58.Some of the Essays of Francis Bacon.
59.The Apology of Socrates together with the Crito, as recorded by Plato.
60.The Phaedo: The Death of Socrates, as recorded by Plato.
61-62.Essays of Elia.By Charles Lamb.
63.Three Essays.By Thomas De Quincey.
64.The Battle of Dorking.By Major-General George Chesney.
65.Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum.Translated by Rev. C. Swan.
66.Letters and Maxims.By Lord Chesterfield.
67.Peter Schlemihl.By Adelbert Chamisso.
With plates by George Cruikshank.
68.A Fable for Critics.By James Russell Lowell.
69.Virginibus Puerisque.By Robert Louis Stevenson.
70.True Americanism.Four Essays. By Theodore Roosevelt.
71.The Word for the Day.Compiled by A. R.
FOOTNOTES:[1]The wise Scandinavians probably called their bards by the queer-looking title of Scald, in a delicate way, as it were, just to hint to the world the hot water they always get into.[2]To demonstrate quickly and easily how per-Versely absurd ’tis to sound this nameCowper,As people in general call him namedsuper,I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper.[3](If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looksThat he’s morally certain you’re jealous of Snooks.)[4](Cuts rightly called wooden, as all must admit.)[5]That, is in most cases we do, but not all,Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small,Such as Blank, who, without being ’minished a tittle,Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little.[6](And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)[7]Not forgetting their tea, and their toast, though, the while.[8]Turn back now to page—goodness only knows what,And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]The wise Scandinavians probably called their bards by the queer-looking title of Scald, in a delicate way, as it were, just to hint to the world the hot water they always get into.
[1]The wise Scandinavians probably called their bards by the queer-looking title of Scald, in a delicate way, as it were, just to hint to the world the hot water they always get into.
[2]To demonstrate quickly and easily how per-Versely absurd ’tis to sound this nameCowper,As people in general call him namedsuper,I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper.
[2]
To demonstrate quickly and easily how per-Versely absurd ’tis to sound this nameCowper,As people in general call him namedsuper,I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper.
To demonstrate quickly and easily how per-Versely absurd ’tis to sound this nameCowper,As people in general call him namedsuper,I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper.
To demonstrate quickly and easily how per-Versely absurd ’tis to sound this nameCowper,As people in general call him namedsuper,I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper.
[3](If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looksThat he’s morally certain you’re jealous of Snooks.)
[3]
(If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looksThat he’s morally certain you’re jealous of Snooks.)
(If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looksThat he’s morally certain you’re jealous of Snooks.)
(If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looksThat he’s morally certain you’re jealous of Snooks.)
[4](Cuts rightly called wooden, as all must admit.)
[4](Cuts rightly called wooden, as all must admit.)
[5]That, is in most cases we do, but not all,Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small,Such as Blank, who, without being ’minished a tittle,Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little.
[5]
That, is in most cases we do, but not all,Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small,Such as Blank, who, without being ’minished a tittle,Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little.
That, is in most cases we do, but not all,Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small,Such as Blank, who, without being ’minished a tittle,Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little.
That, is in most cases we do, but not all,Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small,Such as Blank, who, without being ’minished a tittle,Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little.
[6](And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)
[6]
(And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)
(And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)
(And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)
[7]Not forgetting their tea, and their toast, though, the while.
[7]Not forgetting their tea, and their toast, though, the while.
[8]Turn back now to page—goodness only knows what,And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.
[8]
Turn back now to page—goodness only knows what,And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.
Turn back now to page—goodness only knows what,And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.
Turn back now to page—goodness only knows what,And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.