THE HOWE READERS BY GRADES

BOOK EIGHT

BY

WILL D. HOWE

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN INDIANA UNIVERSITY

MYRON T. PRITCHARD

MASTER, EVERETT SCHOOL, BOSTON

AND

ELIZABETH V. BROWN

DIRECTOR OF PRIMARY INSTRUCTION, WASHINGTON, D. c.

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1912

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS are due the publishers for permission to use the following selections: Who Bides His Time, by James Whitcomb Riley, What Makes a Nation, by W. D. Nesbit, The Bobbs-Merrill Company; Harvey and Dan on the "We're Here," from Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling, The Happy Life, from American Contributions to Civilization, by Charles W. Eliot, The Finer Vibrations, from The World I Live In, by Helen Keller, The Century Company; The Root of Courage, from The Life of the Spirit, by Hamilton W. Mabie, Dodd, Mead and Company; The School that Built a Town from an Address, by Walter H. Page, Doubleday, Page and Company; The Journey Southward, from Farthest North, by Fridtjof Nansen, Emerson, from Literary Friends and Acquaintance, by W. D. Howells, Fair Play, from The Public Duty of Educated Men, by G. W. Curtis, The Memory of the Heart, by Daniel Webster, Sunday in Central Park, from Vignettes of Manhattan, by Brander Matthews, Harper and Brothers; Language that Needs a Rest, by Willis B. Hawkins, Louis Klopsch; For Love of a Man, from The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, The Weather Spirit, by George E. Woodberry, The Macmillan Company; What Books Will Do for Us, from Thoughts and