ON A TROPICAL RIVER.
Charles Kingsley. “Westward Ho!” is a novel written by Rev. Charles Kingsley, and first published…
LOCHINVAR.
LADY HERON’S SONG. Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the west!Through all the wide…
LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.
William Dean Howells. It would not be easy to say where or when the first…
LIFE IN NORMAN ENGLAND.
The tall frowning keep and solid walls of the great stone castles, in which the…
HOW THEY BESIEGED THE TOWN.
Charles Reade. Charles Reade, in his great romance entitled “The Cloister and the Hearth,” has…
HOW CORTÉS ENTERED THE CITY OF MEXICO.
William H. Prescott. Mexico, when first discovered by Europeans, was inhabited by a civilized race…
HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE.
Thomas Babington Macaulay. Tarquin the Proud was the seventh and last king of Rome. Such…
BEETHOVEN’S MOONLIGHT SONATA.
Among the great musical composers of modern times there have been few who rank with…
AUTHORS AND BOOKS.
Abbott, Charles Conrad, the author of the essay on “The Robin” (page 197), is an…
HOW SIR FRANCIS DRAKE SAILED ROUND THE WORLD.
Sir Francis Drake. The ships which the Spaniards used on the Pacific were usually built…