HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD _Alfred Tennyson_ 231 CHARLES DICKENS 232 A CHRISTMAS CAROL _Charles Dickens_ 244 CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME _Sir Walter Scott_ 356 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD _Thomas Gray_ 360 THE SHIPWRECK _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 371 ELEPHANT HUNTING _Roualeyn Gordon Cumming_ 385 SOME CLEVER MONKEYS _Thomas Belt_ 402 POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC _Benjamin Franklin_ 407 GEORGE ROGERS CLARK 422 THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES _George Rogers Clark_ 428 THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK _Edgar Allan Poe_ 453 THE MODERN BELLE _Stark_ 463 WIDOW MACHREE _Samuel Lover_ 464 LIMESTONE BROTH _Gerald Griffin_ 467 THE KNOCK-OUT _Davy Crockett_ 471 THE COUNTRY SQUIRE _Thomas Yriarte_ 474 TO MY INFANT SON _Thomas Hood_ 478 PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES 481 For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of Volume X ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE TOURNAMENT (Color Plate) _Donn P. Crane_ FRONTISPIECE THE LONG ARRAY OF HELMETS BRIGHT _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 5 "LIE THERE," HE CRIED, "FELL PIRATE" _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 13 HORATIO IN HIS HARNESS, HALTING UPON ONE KNEE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 21 "BOATMAN, DO NOT TARRY" _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 24 SIR WALTER SCOTT (Halftone) 26 ABBOTSFORD (Color Plate) 30 THRONG GOING TO THE LISTS _R. F. Babcock_ 41 THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT UNHORSES BRYAN _R. F. Babcock_ 59 THE ARMOUR MAKERS _R. F. Babcock_ 69 PRINCE JOHN THROWS DOWN THE TRUNCHEON _R. F. Babcock_ 85 ROWENA CROWNING DISINHERITED KNIGHT _R. F. Babcock_ 89 "RAB, YE THIEF!" _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 103 JAMES BURIED HIS WIFE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 117 SHE REACHES DOWN TO DIP HER TOE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 125 POOR TRAY IS DEAD _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 132 "WHITHER THOU GOEST, I WILL GO" _R. F. Babcock_ 145 RUTH GLEANING _R. F. Babcock_ 147 THE WRITING ON THE WALL _Louis Grell_ 155