Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells A Boy's Town " " " The Rise of Silas Lapham " " " The Minister's Charge " " " Their Wedding Journey " " " The Lady of the Aroostook " " " Venetian Life " " " Italian Journeys " " " The Mouse Trap (a play) " " " Evening Dress (a play) " " " The Register (a play) " " " The Elevator (a play) " " " Unexpected Guests (a play) " " " The Albany Depot (a play) " " " Literary Friends and Acquaintances " " " Their California Uncle Bret Harte A Lodging for the Night R.L. Stevenson Kidnapped " " Ebb Tide " " Enoch Arden Alfred Tennyson Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne Two Years before the Mast R.H. Dana Out of Gloucester J.B. Connolly Jean Valjean (from _Les Misérables_) Victor Hugo (Ed. S.E. Wiltse) Historic Towns of New England (Cambridge) L.P. Powell (Ed.) Old Cambridge T.W. Higginson American Authors at Home, pp. 193-211 J.L. and J.B. Gilder American Authors and their Homes, pp. 99-110 F.W. Halsey American Writers of To-day, pp. 43-68 H.C. Vedder Bookman, 17:342 (Portrait); 35:114, April, 1912; Current Literature, 42:49, January, 1907 (Portrait). THE WILD RIDE LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY _I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses All day, on the road, the hoofs of invisible horses, All night, from their stalls, the importunate pawing and neighing_. Let cowards and laggards fall back! but alert to the saddle, Weather-worn and abreast, go men of our galloping legion, With a stirrup-cup each to the lily of women that loves him. The trail is through dolour and dread, over crags and morasses; There are shapes by the way, there are things that appal or entice us: What odds? We are Knights of the Grail, we are vowed to the riding. Thought's self is a vanishing wing, and joy is a cobweb, And friendship a flower in the dust, and glory a sun-beam: Not here is our prize, nor, alas! after these our pursuing. A dipping of plumes, a tear, a shake of the bridle, A passing salute to this world and her pitiful beauty: We hurry with never a word in the track of our fathers.