Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS EDITED WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS BY MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A. _Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin_ _Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools_ BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _All selections in this book are used by special permission of, and arrangement with, the owners of the copyrights._ The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A * * * * * Transcribers Note: There are several areas where a pronunciation guide is given with diacritical marks that cannot be reproduced in a text file. The following symbols are used: Symbols for Diacritical Marks: DIACRITICAL MARK SAMPLE ABOVE BELOW macron (straight line) ¯ [=x] [x=] 2 dots (diaresis, umlaut) ¨ [:x] [x:] 1 dot • [.x] [x.] grave accent ` [`x] or [\x] [x`] or [x\] acute accent (aigu) ´ ['x] or [/x] [x'] or [x/] circumflex ^ [^x] [x^] caron (v-shaped symbol) [vx] [xv] breve (u-shaped symbol) [)x] [x)] tilde ~ [~x] [x~] cedilla ¸ [,x] [x,] Also words italicized will have undescores _ before and after them and bold words will have = before and after them. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text. Minor typos have been corrected. * * * * * PREFACE It is pleasant to note, among teachers of literature in the high school, a growing (or perhaps one should say an established) conviction that the pupil's enjoyment of what he reads ought to be the chief consideration in the work. From such enjoyment, it is conceded, come the knowledge and the power that are the end of study. All profitable literature work in the secondary grades must be based upon the unforced attention and activity of the student.