HAY Jim Bludso HENRY Speech HOLINSHED Princes in the Tower HOLMES Nautilus Old Ironsides HUNT Abou Ben Adhem INGELOW High Tide JEWISH LITERATURE Tobit KINGLAKE Eothen LE SAGE Gil Blas LOWELL Sir Launfal LYTTON Pompeii MCMASTER Settler Life in 1800 MOTLEY Relief of Leyden NORSE LITERATURE Discovery of Vinland PLUTARCH Alexander the Great PRESCOTT Conquest of Peru RALEIGH The Fight of the "Revenge" READE Cloister and the Hearth SOUTHEY Inchcape Rock TENNYSON The Revenge The Light Brigade, Etc. =Fifteen and Sixteen Years of Age.= The appreciation of poetry is one of the most subtle and difficult developments in the youthful intellect. Yet some enjoyment of poetry, not merely narrative poems, but contemplative verse as well, should manifest itself during these next years. Furthermore, it is high time to form an acquaintance with writers who will be met again and again in days yet to come. No one will maintain for a moment that a sixteen year old lad will fully understand and appreciate Milton's "L'Allegro," with its treasury of allusion; yet, on the other hand, no one will pretend that this same lad should not at least be granted the opportunity to listen for the first time to those immortal lines. For this reason not only Milton, but Lincoln, Cowper, Pepys, Tolstoi, Hodgkin, Gray, and several others are included in the list. But apart from the more serious and contemplative side of the reading that can be commenced at this age, there is much that will fascinate and delight those who are looking for pastime rather than deep thinking. Barham's "Ingoldsby Legends," of which "The Knight and the Lady" is a most characteristic tale in verse, have long been the joy of all who love laughter and nonsense; and so with Irving's "Knickerbocker's New York," which in many respects is unequaled for wit and delicate fun. Crawford's "The Upper Berth," Doyle's "White Company," and Dumas's "Three Musketeers" furnish thrill enough for the most eager adventure seeker. Tolstoi and Goldsmith will satisfy a quieter mood with their gentle satire on the folly and stupidity and vanity of everyday people, who none the less are the salt of the earth, after all. AGASSIZ Mountains AUDUBON In the Woods BANCROFT Lexington and Concord BARHAM The Knight and the Lady BARRIE Lads and Lasses BERNARD, ST. Hymn NOTE. The reader should take care to read and even to reread the majority of the selections in the previous lists before attempting further progress. BERNARD OF CLUNY Hymns BRONTË Jane Eyre COLERIDGE Poems COWPER Poems CRAWFORD, F. M. The Upper Berth DOYLE The White Company DUMAS Three Musketeers, Monte Cristo, etc. EWALD King Christian FRANKLIN Autobiography FROUDE A Cagliostro of the Second Century