REGULUS BEFORE THE ROMAN SENATE, Epes Sargent THE RETURN OF REGULUS, Elijah Kellogg SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS, Elijah Kellogg MERIT BEFORE BIRTH, Sallust RIENZI'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS, Mary Russell Mitford EMMET'S VINDICATION Robert Emmet KING PHILLIP TO THE WHITE SETTLER, Edward Everett THE CAPTURE OF QUEBEC, Francis Parkman ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES, Edmund Burke THE WAY TO WEALTH, Benjamin Franklin SPEECH ON A RESOLUTION TO PUT VIRGINIA INTO A STATE OF DEFENCE, Patrick Henry THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, Edward Everett Hale LOVE OF COUNTRY, Sir Walter Scott NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Charles Phillips THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS, Charles Sumner THE EVILS OF WAR, Henry Clay PEACE, THE POLICY OF A NATION, John C. Calhoun THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND, Daniel Webster SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS, Daniel Webster SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE UNION, Robert Hayne REPLY TO HAYNE, Daniel Webster DEDICATION SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG, Abraham Lincoln LINCOLN, THE GREAT COMMONER, Edwin Markham O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN, Walt Whitman FAREWELL ADDRESS, George Washington THE MEMORY OF OUR FATHERS, Henry Ward Beecher THE AMERICAN FLAG, J. R. Drake WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, John Pierpont COLUMBUS, Joaquin Miller RECESSIONAL--A VICTORIAN, Rudyard Kipling A DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN, Cardinal Newman COURSE OF READING In the ELSON READERS selections are grouped according to theme or authorship. This arrangement, however, is not intended to fix an order for reading in class; its purpose is to emphasise classification, facilitate comparison, and enable pupils to appreciate similarities and contrasts in the treatment of like themes by different authors. To give variety, to meet the interests at different seasons and festivals, and to go from prose to poetry and from long to short selections, a carefully planned order of reading should be followed. Such an order of reading calls for a full consideration of all the factors mentioned above. The Course here offered meets these ends but may easily be varied to fit local conditions. FIRST HALF-YEAR