OF BOOKS SUITABLE FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING The publishers intend to include in this School Library only such of their books for the young us have already by their popularity and recog nized excellence acquired the right to rank as standard reading books. 16mo. Cloth, 50 cents each. CHURCH-The Story of the Iliad. By the REV. ALFred J. CHURCH. No writer has succeeded in outrivalling Rev. A. J. Church in his stories of ancient Greek history and mythology. He has the faculty of weaving into a delightful romance the hard facts of history, or in putting into narrative form the significant incidents of the Homeric poems. Mr. Church's style is clear, distinct, and to the point. -Boston Herald. YONGE-A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands, Gathered and Narrated by the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe." By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 66 'Surely it must be a wholesome contemplation," the author remarks, to look on actions the very essence of which is such entire absorption in others that self is not so much renounced as forgotten; the object of which is not to win promotion, wealth, or success, but simple duty, mercy, and loving-kindness.' KINGSLEY-Madam How and Lady Why. First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children. By the REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY, Author of "Water Babies," Greek Heroes." 66 PALGRAVE-The Children's Treasury of English Song, Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE, Editor of the Golden Treasury. OTHER VOLUMES TO FOLLOW. MACMILLAN & CO., 112 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK. PR 1175 P26 1893 317256 "To a The Publishers owe their thanks to Mr. William Cullen Bryant for the use of his two poems Waterfowl," and "The Death of the Flowers"; also to Messrs. James R. Osgood & Co. for permission to print Professor Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus," from their copyright edition of his works. PREFACE THIS selection is planned for children between nine or ten, and fifteen or sixteen years of age; the pleasure and advantage of the older students in Elementary, and the younger in Grammar and Public Schools, being especially kept in view. As it is meant for their own possession and study, not less than for use as a class-book in the teacher's hand, sufficient notes (it is thought) have been added to render the volume by itself fairly comprehensible to children of average intelligence and the editor hopes that this object may be his excuse with those who may consider the annotations too numerous. The scheme of choice followed has produced a selection different from any known to the editor. Suitability to childhood is, of course, the common principle of all. But, this quality secured (so far as individual judgment can), nothing has been here admitted which does not reach a high rank in poetical merit; and the available stores of English poetry have been carefully reviewed for the purpose. The editor's wish has been to collect all songs, narratives, descriptions, or reflective pieces of a lyrical quality, fit to give pleasure, --high, pure, manly, (and therefore lasting)— to children in the stage between early childhood and early youth; and no pieces which are not of this character. Poetry, for poetry's sake, is what |