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HEATH'S GLEN KEY SERIES
The following titles, among many others, are available
or in preparation:

POETRY

ARNOLD'S SOHRAB AND RUSTUM AND OTHER POEMS
BROWNING'S SHORTER 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 IVANHOE

SCOTT'S QUENTIN DURWARD

WILLIAMS AND LIEBER'S PANORAMA OF THE SHORT STORY

OTHER TITLES

ADDISON AND STEELE'S SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS
BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON (selections)

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)
MACAULAY'S JOHNSON

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.

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