GILBERT The Nancy Bell GOLDSMITH Vicar of Wakefield GRAY Elegy HAWTHORNE The Old Manse HEINE Travel Pictures HODGKIN Attila the Hun HOOD Poems IRVING Knickerbocker's New York JOSEPHUS Destruction of the Temple KINGSLEY Poems LA FONTAINE Fables LINCOLN Gettysburg Speech LONGFELLOW Poems MAHAFFY Alexander the Great MILTON L'Allegro Il Penseroso PEPYS Diary PHILLIPS Toussaint L'Ouverture ROUGET DE LISLE The Marseillaise SCOTT Selections STOWE Uncle Tom's Cabin TOLSTOI Where Love Is WHITTIER Poems =Seventeen and Eighteen Years of Age.= With increasing maturity we may naturally expect the mind to enjoy the more calm and meditative moods of life: for example, the essays of Addison and Lamb, the more forceful historical reflections of such writers as Green, Froissart, and Parkman, the "Utopia" of Sir Thomas More, Thoreau's "Walden," and Washington's "Farewell Address." These form an excellent introduction to the deeper thoughts which will shortly be forced upon youth as it goes out into the world to fight for a career. At this time, too, interest is stirred to attempt an understanding of the 'reason for things'--the mind endeavors to arrive at some law or principle beneath the varied course of life and action in the world. In other words, boyhood and girlhood are past, and an older view of life and its responsibilities must naturally take the place of the carefree spirit of earlier days. The qualities of friendship that appear in "Tennessee's Partner" and the search for spiritual as well as intellectual companionship and understanding that is emphasized in Tennyson or Matthew Arnold are at this time beginning to be more fully appreciated and understood. ADDISON Punning Good Nature Westminster Abbey ALDRICH Père Antoine ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE Beowulf ARNOLD, M. The Forsaken Merman BALZAC The Purse BJÖRNSON Railroad and Churchyard BROOKS Lincoln CAINE The Bondman CAMPBELL Poems CREASY Decisive Battles DAUDET Tartarin EDGEWORTH Castle Rackrent FIELD Poems FROISSART Battles of Otterbourne and Crécy GASKELL Cranford GREEN English History HARDY The Three Strangers HARTE Tennessee's Partner HINDOO LITERATURE HUGO Selections JERROLD Mrs. Caudle LAMB Essays LEVER Charles O'Malley LINCOLN Second Inaugural LOWELL The Courtin' MORE Utopia OVID Philemon and Baucis PARKMAN La Salle The Plains of Abraham POE Tales SHORTHOUSE John Inglesant STEELE Essays SWIFT Selections TENNYSON Poems THOREAU Walden TYNDALL Ascent of Mont Blanc VOLTAIRE Charles XII WASHINGTON Farewell Address