THE GREAT STONE FACE _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 510 AMERICAN LITERATURE OF LIGHTER VEIN THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG _Mark Twain_ 531 THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 538 THE GIFT OF THE MAGI _O. Henry_ 541 THE RENOWNED WOUTER VAN TWILLER _Washington Irving_ 547 AMERICAN WORKERS AND THEIR WORK MAKERS OF THE FLAG _Franklin K. Lane_ 553 I HEAR AMERICA SINGING _Walt Whitman_ 556 PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! _Walt Whitman_ 557 THE BEANFIELD _Henry David Thoreau_ 559 SHIP-BUILDERS _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 562 THE BUILDERS _Henry W. Longfellow_ 566 LOVE OF COUNTRY THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 568 OLD IRONSIDES _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 570 THE AMERICAN FLAG _Henry Ward Beecher_ 572 THE AMERICAN FLAG _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 574 THE FLAG GOES BY _Henry H. Bennett_ 577 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 578 CITIZENSHIP _William Pierce Frye_ 580 THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON _Thomas Jefferson_ 583 THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY _William Cullen Bryant_ 586 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Richard H. Stoddard_ 587 O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! _Walt Whitman_ 588 IN FLANDERS FIELDS _John D. McCrae_ 590 AMERICA’S ANSWER _R. W. Lillard_ 591 GLOSSARY 592 THE LITERATURE SERIES _for the Junior High School_ The complete series includes: Book One, for the first year. Book Two, for the second year. Book Three, for the third year. THE THREE JOYS OF READING The picture on this page is called “A Reading from Homer.” Study each of the people who form the group. Judging from their dress and appearance, do you think they are people of the present time or of the ancient world? From what sort of book is the poet reading? Should you think such “books” could be owned by all sorts of people, or only by a few? Study the reader’s expression. What sort of story do you think he is reading? Can you decide anything about the listeners, who they are and what they are thinking about? Who is most deeply interested in the story, and why? [Illustration: A READING FROM HOMER]