FOB READING AND LITERATURE CLASSES IN GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. 

 HIGH SCHOOLS, AND ACADEMIES. 



$tejsterpiecejs of American Literature* 



12mo, 470 pages, $1.00, net, postpaid. 

 With a portrait of each author. 



CONTENTS. 

 IRVING : Biographical Sketch ; Rip Van Winkle. 



BRYANT : Biographical Sketch ; Thanatopsis ; To a 

 Waterfowl. 



FRANKLIN : Biographical Sketch ; Poor Richard s Al 

 manac ; Letter to Samuel Mather ; Letter to the 

 Rev. Dr. Lathrop, Boston ; Letter to Benjamin 

 Webb. 



HOLMES : Biographical Sketch ; Grandmother s Story 

 of Bunker Hill Battle; The Ploughman; The 

 Chambered Nautilus ; The Iron Gate. 



HAWTHORNE : Biographical Sketch ; The Great Stone 

 Face ; My Visit to Niagara. 



WHITTIER : Biographical Sketch ; Snow-Bound ; The 

 Ship-Builders ; The Worship of Nature. 



THOREAU : Biographical Sketch ; Wild Apples. 



O REILLY: Biographical Sketch; The Pilgrim Fa 

 thers. 



LOWELL : Biographical Sketch ; Books and Libraries ; 

 Essay on Lincoln [with Lincoln s Gettysburg 

 Speech] ; The Vision of Sir Launfal. 



EMERSON : Biographical Sketch ; Behavior ; Boston 

 Hymn. 



WEBSTER : Biographical Sketch ; Address Delivered 

 at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill 

 Monument, June 17, 1825. 



EVERETT : Biographical Sketch ; From &quot; The Char 

 acter of Washington.&quot; 



LONGFELLOW : Biographical Sketch ; Evangeline. 



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