_In Honor of James Whitcomb Riley, with a Brief Sketch of his Life_, by Hughes, Beveridge, and Others, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. Clemens's _Autobiography_. Matthews's _Biographical Criticism of Mark Twain_, in the _Introduction_ to _The Innocents Abroad_. Phelps's _Essays on Modern Novelists_. (Mark Twain; excellent.) Henderson's _Mark Twain_, in _Harpers Magazine_, May, 1909. Howells's _My Mark Twain_. SUGGESTED READINGS Lincoln.--_The Gettysburg Address_, part of the _Second Inaugural Address_. Harte.--_Tennessee's Partner_, and _How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar_. Harte's two greatest stories, _The Luck of Roaring Camp_ and _The Outcasts of Poker Flat_, should be read in mature years. These stories may all be found in the single volume, entitled _The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories_. (Riverside Aldine Press Series.) Field.--_Little Boy Blue_, _The Duel_, _Krinken_, _Wynken, Blynken, and Nod_, _The Rock-a-By Lady_. These poems may all be found in Burt and Cable's _The Eugene Field Book_. Riley.--_When the Frost is on the Punkin, The Clover, The First Bluebird, Ike Walton's Prayer, A Life Lesson, Away, Griggsby's Station, Little Mahala Ashcraft, Our Hired Girl, Little Orphant Annie._ These poems may be found in the three volumes, entitled _Neighborly Poems_, _Afterwhiles_, and _Rhymes of Childhood_. Mark Twain.--_Life on the Mississippi_, Chaps. VIII., IX., XIII. _Roughing It_, Chap. II. If the first two chapters of _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ and _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ are read, the time will probably be found to finish the books. For specimens of his humor at its best, read _Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar_, printed at the beginning of the twenty-one chapters of _Pudd'nhead Wilson_. His humor depending on incongruity is well shown in _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court_. _The Prince and the Pauper_ is a fascinating story of sixteenth-century England. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Why does Oxford University display on its walls _The Gettysburg Address_ of Lincoln? What books helped mold his style? What period of our development do Bret Harte's stories illustrate? What are some special characteristics of his short stories? Does he belong to the school of Poe or Hawthorne? Which one of our great short story writers has the most humor,--Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, or Harte? Which one of them do you enjoy the most? Why is Eugene Field called the poet-laureate of children? Which of his poems indicated for reading do you prefer? What are the most striking qualities of his verse? Point out the chief characteristics of Riley's verse. What lines please you most for their humor, references to rural life, optimism, kindly spirit, and pathos? Why is he so widely popular?