The collateral readings are appended for the use of those teachers who wish to carry on a course of outside reading in connection with the regular work of the class. These lists have been made somewhat extensive and varied, in order that they may fit the tastes and opportunities of many teachers and pupils. In some cases, the collateral work may be presented by the teacher, to elaborate a subject in which the class has become interested; or individual pupils may prepare themselves and speak to the class about what they have read; or all the pupils may read for pleasure alone, merely reporting the extent of their reading, for the teacher's approval. The outside reading should, it is needless to say, be treated as a privilege and not as a mechanical task. The possibilities of this work will be increased if the teacher familiarizes herself with the material in the collateral lists, so that she can adapt the home readings to the tastes of the class and of specific pupils. The miscellaneous lists given at the close of the book are intended to supplement the lists accompanying the selections, and to offer some assistance in the choice of books for a high school library. M.A. NEW YORK, February, 1914. CONTENTS A DAY AT LAGUERRE'S _F. Hopkinson Smith_ QUITE SO _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ (In _Marjorie Daw, and Other Stories_) PAN IN WALL STREET _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ THE HAND OF LINCOLN _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ JEAN VALJEAN _Augusta Stevenson_ (In _A Dramatic Reader_, Book Five) A COMBAT ON THE SANDS _Mary Johnston_ (From _To Have and to Hold_, Chapters XXI and XXII) THE GRASSHOPPER _Edith M. Thomas_ MOLY _Edith M. Thomas_ THE PROMISED LAND _Mary Antin_ (From Chapter IX of _The Promised Land_) WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME _Walt Whitman_ WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER _Walt Whitman_ VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT _Walt Whitman_ ODYSSEUS IN PHAEACIA _Translated by George Herbert Palmer_ ODYSSEUS _George Cabot Lodge_ A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE _William Dean Howells_ (In _Suburban Sketches_) THE WILD RIDE _Louise Imogen Guiney_ CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS _Dallas Lore Sharp_ (In _The Lay of the Land_) GLOUCESTER MOORS _William Vaughn Moody_ ROAD-HYMN FOR THE START _William Vaughn Moody_ ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILLIPINES _William Vaughn Moody_ THE COON DOG _Sarah Orne Jewett_ (In _The Queen's Twin, and Other Stories_) ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Richard Watson Gilder_ A FIRE AMONG THE GIANTS _John Muir_ (From _Our National Parks_) WAITING _John Burroughs_ THE PONT DU GARD _Henry James_ (Chapter XXVI of _A Little Tour in France_) THE YOUNGEST SON OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE _Anna Hempstead Branch_ TENNESSEE'S PARTNER _Bret Harte_ THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY _Woodrow Wilson_ (In _Mere Literature_)