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1070 pages divided into the following sections: The story of Literature; The Short Story; Narrative Poetry; Biography; the Essay; Lyric Poetry; The Drama; The Novel.
Each section has examples and is followed by a suggested reading list: 14 Short Stories; 12 Narrative Poems; 5 Biographies; 16 Essays; 36 Lyrical Poems; with Drama represented by Julius Caesar, and the Novel by Silas Marner.  Contains: - The most dangerous game / Richard Connell
- They grind exceeding small / Ben Ames Williams
- The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle
- The third ingredient / O. Henry
- Hyacinth / Saki (some editions)
- The oracle of the dog / G.K. Chesterton (some editions)
- The wild duck's nest / Michael McLaverty
- All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan
- Christopher / Enid M. Dinnis
- An ingénue of the Sierras / Bret Harte
- Moti Guj, mutineer / Rudyard Kipling
- The stranger in the village / Philip Gibbs
- The masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe
- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving
- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
- The idylls of the king: Gareth and Lynette / Alfred Tennyson (some editions)
- The passing of Arthur / Alfred Tennyson (some editions)
- First confession / Frank O'Connor (some editions)
- Lord Randal / old ballad
- The daemon lover / old ballad
- When I was a lad / William S. Gilbert (some editions)
- The return of Morgan and Fingal / Edwin Arlington Robinson (some editions)
- The ruler of the queen's navee! / William S. Gilbert (some editions)
- The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer (some editions)
- Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning
- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
- The admiral's ghost / Alfred Noyes
- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe
- The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Enoch Arden / Alfred Tennyson (some editions)
- Sohrab and Rustum / Matthew Arnold (some editions)
- Of books / John Ruskin
- The man and the lion / John Henry Newman
- Ring out, wild bells / Wolcott Gibbs (some editions)
- On making friends / Christopher Morley
- Holy Ireland / Joyce Kilmer
- Mary White / William Allen White
- The night the bed fell / James Thurber (some editions)
- The new strokes / Robert C. Benchley (some editions)
- Read and eat / Robert C. Benchley (some editions)
- Death of a ship / Hilaire Belloc
- The little bluebirds / Leonard Feeney (some editions)
- On getting up on cold mornings / Leigh Hunt
- My financial career / Stephen Leacock (some editions)
- The marquis of Montrose / John Skelton (some editions)
- Symptoms / Jerome K. Jerome
- Lourdes / John Gibbons (some editions)
- Elephant / Carl Akeley
- A night among the pines / Robert Louis Stevenson
- The fifty-yard dash / William Saroyan
- Damien the leper / John Farrow
- Granddaughter of the conquistadores / Margaret T. Monro (some editions)
- Père Marquette's last days / Agnes Repplier
- Lee, triumphant / Thomas Nelson Page
- My mother is stricken / Hamlin Garland
- The hitch-hiker / Lucille Fletcher (some editions)
- Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare
- Cargoes / John Masefield
- The wanderer's song / John Masefield
- The road not taken / Robert Frost
- Chicago / Carl Sandburg
- Roofs / Joyce Kilmer
- Brooklyn Bridge at dawn / Richard le Gallienne
- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton
- Four little foxes / Lew Sarett
- The eagle / Alfred Tennyson
- All but blind / Walter de la Mare
- The sparrow / James J. Daly
- To a mouse / Robert Burns
- Grass / Carl Sandburg
- A tulip garden / Amy Lowell
- To a snowflake / Francis Thompson
- London snow / Robert Bridges
- A London thoroughfare two a.m. / Amy Lowell
- The dark hills / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth
- The ocean / George Gordon, Lord Byron
- When I was in love / A.E. Housman
- Bugle song / Alfred Tennyson
- Chimes / Alice Meynell
- Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc (some editions)
- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
- At Galway races / William Butler Yates (some editions)
- A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim / Walt Whitman
- Crossing the bar / Alfred Tennyson
- Peace / Rupert Brooke
- The light of Bethlehem / John Bannister Tabb
- Le repos en Egypte : the sphinx / Agnes Repplier
- The way of the cross / Leonard Feeney (some editions)
- Te martyrum candidatus / Lionel Johnson
- The toys / Coventry Patmore
- The soldier / Gerard Manley Hopkins (some editions)
- The lantern out of doors / Gerard Manley Hopkins (some editions)
- The hurricane / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (some editions)
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