HEATH'S GLEN KEY SERIES POETRY ARNOLD'S SOHRAB AND RUSTUM AND OTHER POEMS FRENCH'S RECENT POETRY GUINDON AND O'KEEFE'S JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL POETRY MILTON'S SHORTER POEMS SCOTT'S LADY OF THE LAKE TENNYSON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING FICTION COOPER'S LAST OF THE MOHICANS ELIOT'S SILAS MARNER ELIOT'S MILL ON THE FLOSS HAWTHORNE'S HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES TALES FROM HAWTHORNE DICKENS'S TALE OF TWO CITIES (entire) DICKENS'S TALE OF TWO CITIES (edited for rapid reading) SCOTT'S QUENTIN DURWARD WILLIAMS AND LIEBER'S PANORAMA OF THE SHORT STORY OTHER TITLES ADDISON AND STEELE'S SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS BURKE'S ON CONCILIATION CLARK AND COOK'S ONE-ACT PLAYS PHILLIPS AND GEISLER'S GLIMPSES INTO THE WORLD OF SCIENCE CHAMBERLAIN'S A MIRROR FOR AMERICANS (essays by Lowell and others about ourselves and our neighbors) FRENCH'S OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CAESAR SHAKESPEARE'S MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON 3 DO Printed in the United States of America ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are an hundred faults in this thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth: he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple in affluence, and majestic in adversity. In this age of opulence and refinement, whom can such a character please? Such as are fond of high life will turn with disdain from the simplicity of his country fireside. Such as mistake ribaldry for humour will find no wit in his harmless conversation; and such as have been taught to deride religion will laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. |