The selections throughout the book are arranged under six different classes and cover a wide range of thought and emotion. While many shades of feeling may be found in the same selection, it has been our aim to place each one under the division with which, as a whole, it is most closely allied. We are grateful to the many authors and publishers who have courteously permitted us to use their publications. Instead of naming them in the preface we have chosen to make due acknowledgment in a footnote wherever their selections appear in the volume. F. AND T. CONTENTS I NARRATIVE, DESCRIPTIVE, PATHETIC PAGE Arena Scene from "Quo Vadis?" The _Sienkiewicz._ 1 Arrow and the Song, The _Longfellow._ 8 Aux Italiens _Lytton._ 8 Bobby Shafto _Henry._ 12 Carcassonne _Nadaud._ 13 Child-wife, The _Dickens._ 15 Count Gismond _Browning._ 21 Death of Arbaces, The _Lytton._ 25 Dora _Tennyson._ 32 Easter with Parepa, An _Delano._ 37 Evening Bells, Those _Moore._ 41 Ginevra _Coolidge._ 42 High Tide at Lincolnshire, The _Ingelow._ 47 How Did You Die? _Cooke._ 52 Indigo Bird, The _Burroughs._ 53 Jackdaw of Rheims, The _Barham._ 54 Jaffar _Hunt._ 57 Jim Bludsoe _Hay._ 59 King Robert of Sicily _Longfellow._ 61 Lady of Shalott, The _Tennyson._ 67 Legend of Service, A _Van Dyke._ 72 Little Boy Blue _Field._ 76 Mary's Night Ride _Cable._ 77 Nydia, the Blind Girl _Lytton._ 80 O Captain, My Captain! _Whitman._ 88 On the Other Train _Anon._ 89 Pansy, The _Anon._ 92 "Revenge," The _Tennyson._ 94 Rider of the Black Horse, The _Lippard._ 98 Sailing beyond Seas _Ingelow._ 101 Sands of Dee, The _Kingsley._ 102 School of Squeers, The _Dickens._ 103 Secret of Death, The _Arnold._ 110