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A NEW AND ORIGINAL

PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE

FOR CHILDREN

BY

CHARLES H. SYLVESTER
Author of English and American Literature

VOLUME NINE

New Edition

LEONARD R. LIPOWICZ 750 FILLMORE AVE.

BUFFALO, N, Y.

Chicago
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

PUBLISIERS

Copyright, 1922 BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE

ASCENT OF THE JUNGFRAU

John Tyndall 1

ABOU BEN ADAEM .

Leigh Hunt '11

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Anna McCaleb 13

IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS . Thomas Babington Macaulay 32

A DISSERTATION UPON Roast Pig

Charles Lamb 56

THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY SWEEPERS

Charles Lamb 66

MR. PICKWICK AND SAM WELLER

Charles Dickens 76

THE DEATH OF CAESAR

... Plutarch 126

THE DEATH OF CAESAR

Shakespeare 143

JULIUS CAESAR

James Anthony Froude 155

THE BATTLE OF CRESSY

Jean Froissart 161

THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA

E. S. Creasy 176

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

201

THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE

207

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (Selections)

James Boswell 216

OWLS

Gilbert White 229

THE GOLD-BUG

Edgar Allan Poe 232

THE VISION OF MIRZA

.Joseph Addison 285

PIPPA PASSES.

Adapted from Robert Browning 293

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

Abraham Lincoln 321

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Theodore Roosevelt 324

THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS

E. S. Creasy 330

SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY

Joseph Addison 371

SIR FRANCIS BACON

395

OF EXPENSE

Sir Francis Bacon 397

OF STUDIES

Sir Francis Bacon 400

MODESTINE

Robert Louis Stevenson 403

ROBERT OF LINCOLN

William Cullen Bryant 444

THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

Oliver Wendell Holmes 454

JOHN KEATS

457

ODE ON A GRECIAN URN

. John Keats 462

THE FATE OF THE INDIANS

Charles Sprague 466

A CALL TO ARMS

Patrick Henry 475

PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES

489

For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of

Volume X