WHAT THE SUNBEAMS DO.
What work do the sunbeams do for us? They do two things,—they give us light…
TWO WAYS OF TELLING A STORY.
I. Who is this? A careless little midshipman, idling about in a great city,…
THE STORY OF THOMAS BECKET.
I. HIS LIFE. Henry II. began his reign over England in the year 1154, and…
THE SOLDIER’S DREAM.
Our bugles sang truce; for the night cloud had lowered,And the sentinel stars set their…
THE SHIPWRECK.
I. Having made up my mind to go down to Yarmouth, I went round to…
THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN’S NEST.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “So the dreams depart, So the fading phantoms flee, And the sharp…
THE ROBIN.
The robin is perhaps the best known of all our birds. The name is so…
THE PILGRIMS. (1620.)
Edward Everett. Methinks I see one solitary, adventurous vessel, the “Mayflower,” of a forlorn hope,…
THE PASSING OF ARTHUR.
The reader has already become somewhat acquainted with the marvelous history of King Arthur, and…
THE PASS OF KILLIECRANKIE.
John Græme of Claverhouse, whose title of Viscount Dundee had been given him in reward…