No. 4

Editorials   289-292
Charles Sumner Carl Schurz 293
How the Elephant Got His Trunk Rudyard Kipling 295
The Owl Lord Tennyson 299
T'nowhead's Bell J. M. Barrie 300
John Storm's Resolution Hall Cain 308
The Flood of the Floss George Eliot 314
The Real Muck Rake Man Henry van Dyke 319
The Hunt Mercy E. Baker 322
Francois Villon, About to Die John D. Swain 323
Lady Moon Lord Haughton 326
A Good Dinner Mary Stuart Cutting 326
My Rival Rudyard Kipling 328
Imph-m James Nicholson 328
Looking Forward Robert Louis Stevenson 329
Mrs. Atwood's Raiment Mary Stuart Cutting 330
Hymn of a Child Charles Wesley 341
The Day of Precious Penalties Marion Hill 342
Cradle Hymn Martin Luther 349
A Kentucky Cinderella F. Hopkinson Smith 350
At Lincoln's Tomb Robertus Love 355
Mammy's Pickanin' Lucy Dean Jenkins 357
The Old Doll Edith M. Thomas 359
Santa Claus Unknown 360
Little Christel Wm. B. Rands 361
Seven Times One Jean Ingelow 363
Daffy-Down-Dilly Anna B. Warner 364
The Ant and the Cricket Unknown 366
Cradle Hymn Isaac Watts 367
The Usual Way Anonymous 368
The Lark and the Rook Anonymous 369
The Gondola Race F. Hopkinson Smith 371
Lincoln Jonathan P. Dolliver 374
Spacially Jim Bessie Margon 376
An Opera George Ade 378
A Little Knight-Errant Margaret A. Richard 382
Jane Jones Ben King 383

No. 5

Editorials   1-5
On Time John Milton 5
The Knight in the Wood E. Leicester Warren 6
A Little Feminine Casabianca Geo. Madden Martin 7
What He Got Out of It S. E. Kiser 11
The Play's the Thing Geo. Madden Martin 12
The Dancing School and Dicky Josephine Dodge Daskam 18
A Model Story in the Kindergarten Josephine Dodge Daskam 24
Fishin'? Anonymous 26
Ardelia in Arcady Josephine Dodge Daskam 27
Meriel Margaret Houston 34
The Old Man and "Shep" John G. Scorer 35
Who Knows Louise Chandler Moulton 36
The Negro Booker T. Washington 37
The Guillotine Victor Hugo 40
Robespierre's Last Speech Maximilian M. I. Robespierre 42
Secession Alex. H. Stephens 44
Birds Richard Henry Stoddard 47
The Death of Hypatia Charles Kingsley 48
Death Stands Above Me. Walter Savage Landor 54
The Tournament Sir Walter Scott 55
A Plea for the Old Year Louise Chandler Moulton 59
Fagin's Last Day Charles Dickens 60
A Caution to Poets. Matthew Arnold 64
Apollo Belvedere Ruth McEnery Stuart 65
An Invalid in Lodgings J. M. Barrie 71
The Stirrup-Cup Sidney Lanier 74
Das Krist Kindel. James Whitcomb Riley 75
Hiram Foster's Thanksgiving Turkey S. E. Kiser 77
The Winning of Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 79
The Sky Richard Henry Stoddard 96

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Transcriber's Note

Variant forms of words in the original text, sometimes within the same selection, have been retained in this ebook. Ellipses have been standardized. Omissions in the Table of Contents match those of the original document.

The following typographical corrections have been made in this ebook:

Page 17: Changed , to . (kind of mourning.)
Page 18: Changed You're to You've (You've got to go.)
Page 23: Added missing quotes; changed single to double ('I don't know, I don't know!'")
Page 27: Changed helpessly to helplessly (said the young lady, helplessly)
Page 40: Changed constanly to constantly (constantly in mind)
Page 40: Removed duplicate word 'these' (these twenty-five years)
Page 41: Changed scafforld to scaffold (the scaffold against the scaffold)
Page 47: Changed shown to shone (the sun of heaven ever shone)
Page 53: Removed stray period (She had disappeared, and)
Page 66: Changed constanly to constantly (met constantly)
Page 71: Removed duplicate quotes (I feared," she said.)
Page 72: Changed is to it (but it is satisfaction)
Page 82: Changed single-quote to double (go to sleep.")
Page 87: Changed by to my (hand upon my arm)
Page 90: Changed Doone's to Doones (murdered by the Doones)
Page 93: Changed though to thought (I thought he would)
Table of Contents: Added missing parenthesis (from "The Heart of the Ancient Wood")
Table of Contents: Added missing question mark to match title in text (Fishin'?)
Table of Contents: Changed Kris to Krist to match title in text (Das Krist Kindel.)
Table of Contents: Added missing word 'On' to match title in text (On Time)