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[Illustration: PROSPERO AND MIRANDA
The Tempest ]
Journeys
Through Bookland
A NEW AND ORIGINAL
PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
FOR CHILDREN BY
CHARLES H. SYLVESTER
Author of English and American Literature
VOLUME EIGHT
New Edition [Illustration] Chicago
BELLOWS REEVE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1922
BELLOWS REEVE COMPANY
CONTENTS PAGE
RINGROSE AND HIS BUCCANEERS 1
DAVID CROCKETT 29
DAVID CROCKETT IN THE CREEK WAR 37
AMERICA Samuel Francis Smith 60
THE RETREAT OF CORTÉS William H. Prescott 63
BATTLE OF IVRY Thomas Babington Macaulay 76
THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE 81
MARCO BOZZARIS Fitz Greene Halleck 90
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM Edgar Allan Poe 95
PÈRE MARQUETTE Jared Sparks 121
THE FALL OF THE ALAMO 141
THE ALHAMBRA Washington Irving 153
HERVÉ RIEL Robert Browning 168
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO Lord Byron 176
HOW THEY TOOK THE GOLD TRAIN Charles Kingsley 180
A BED OF NETTLES Grant Allen 209
WASHINGTON IRVING 216
THE KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY OF NEW YORK Washington Irving 224
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR Robert Southey 284
CASABIANCA Felicia Hemans 313
THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST Elizabeth Barrett Browning 315
THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT Robert Burns 319
CHARLES AND MARY LAMB 328
DREAM CHILDREN: A REVERY Charles Lamb 335
READING SHAKESPEARE 346
THE TEMPEST, A TALE FROM SHAKESPEARE Charles and Mary Lamb 348
THE TEMPEST William Shakespeare 364
STUDIES FOR The Tempest 468
PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES 489 For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of Volume X
ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE
PROSPERO AND MIRANDA (Color Plate) Arthur Henderson FRONTISPIECE
WE ROWED AWAY DOWN THE RIVER Herbert N. Rudeen 3
A BATTLE AT LONG RANGE COMMENCED Herbert N. Rudeen 21
A CROSS WITH SEVERAL LETTERS BESIDE IT Herbert N. Rudeen 25
I SAID FAREWELL TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN R. F. Babcock 39
I FOUND A DEER THAT HAD JUST BEEN KILLED R. F. Babcock 45
PILOTED BY FRIENDLY INDIANS (Color Plate) R. F. Babcock 48
THE ATTACK ON THE FORT R. F. Babcock 55
BATTLE ON THE CAUSEWAY Louis Grell 69
THEY DRAGGED THEIR FEEBLE LIMBS WITH DIFFICULTY Louis Grell 74
"CHARGE FOR THE GOLDEN LILIES NOW" Louis Grell 79
THEIR LAST ENCOUNTER Herbert N... Continue reading book >>
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