_FREE_ _TO PURCHASERS OF "EVERY GIRL'S LIBRARY" ONLY_ WALLACE MORGAN'S (The Originator of Fluffy Ruffles) FAMOUS PICTURE [Illustration: W. MORGAN.] [Illustration: Anna Sewell] EVERY GIRL'S LIBRARY A Collection of Appropriate and Instructive Reading for Girls of All Ages from the Best Authors of All Time In Ten Volumes Edited by PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH _With a General Introduction by the Editor and Critical and Interpretive Essays by_ ELLA WHEELER WILCOX MARGARET E. SANGSTER STELLA GEORGE STERN PERRY NEW YORK The Pearson Publishing Co. MCMX Copyright, 1910, by THE PEARSON PUBLISHING CO. Entered at Stationers' Hall London, England _Typography, Plates, Presswork and Binding by The J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York._ CONTENTS BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE Paul and Virginia 1 ANNA SEWELL Black Beauty's New Home (_Black Beauty_) 49 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Portia and Shylock (_The Merchant of Venice_) 69 Romeo and Juliet 86 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To a Skylark 95 ROBERT SOUTHEY The Battle of Blenheim 100 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Will o' the Mill 104 An Apology for Idlers 141 The Wind 155 Keepsake Mill 155 The Moon 156 Looking-glass River 157 Winter-Time 158 My Shadow 159 Autumn Fires 160 ROBERT STORY The Whistler 161 AGNES STRICKLAND Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I 163 JOHN SUCKLING Why So Pale and Wan? 211 I Prithee, Send Me Back My Heart 212 JONATHAN SWIFT A Voyage to Lilliput (_Gulliver's Travels_) 214 ROBERT TANNAHILL The Braes o' Balquhither 239 The Flower o' Dumblane 240 ALFRED TENNYSON Lady Clare 242 Lady Clara Vere de Vere 246 Come Into the Garden, Maud 249 Break, Break, Break 251 The Miller's Daughter 252 St. Agnes 253