Prologue to the _Canterbury Tales_ which most people, who read
Chaucer at all, know best. A little study will help us to read some
of Chaucer's lines. We know also of Spenser's _Faery Queen_, of Una
and the Red Cross Knight. Shakespeare lives as the master of English
literature. We have some knowledge of his plays, but we have not yet
spoken of his sonnets.
A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines, usually divided into an
octave--eight lines--and a sestet--six lines. There are three
varieties of the {232} sonnet form in English poetry. That used by
Shakespeare has three four-line stanzas, the first line in each
stanza rhyming with the third, and the second line with the fourth;
these stanzas are followed by a rhyming couplet. Those of you who
are specially interested in verse forms will find under the heading
"technical terms", an interesting note on the sonnet in Mr. H. W.
Fowler's _Dictionary of Modern English Usage_. Some of the most
beautiful short poems in the world have taken the form of the sonnet.
Read Shakespeare's sonnet beginning with the lines,--
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang.
See with what beauty Shakespeare clothes the bare branches of winter
trees. Many times in our lives, we will think with joy of
Shakespeare's words when we look at the leafless boughs of trees and
remember how the birds in summer sang in the leafy bowers like
choristers in a choir. Shakespeare used nine words only to give us
this joy.
Milton, who was a great poet, also wrote sonnets. The best known of
his sonnets was written on his own blindness. It begins with the
line,
When I consider how my light is spent.
But the most loved poem by Milton is the "Hymn on the Morning of
Christ's Nativity". The beginning of the first stanza is as follows:
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It was the Winter wilde,
While the Heav'n-born-childe
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies;
Nature in aw to him,
Had doff't her gawdy trim,
With her great Master so to sympathize:
Of Dryden, read part of "Alexander's Feast"; and from Pope's work
choose the gay, amusing poem called "The Rape of the Lock".
Wordsworth's sonnets are specially beautiful; we should read "Upon
Westminster Bridge", and one other called "The World". His longer
poem, "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood", will express for you how beautiful the world is in your
eyes, perhaps more perfectly than the work of any other of the great
poets.
Coleridge's poem, "Do You Ask What the Birds Say?" we should read;
Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"; Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", or
his poem "To a Skylark"; Keats' "Eve of St. Agnes"; Tennyson's "Morte
d'Arthur"; and Browning's "Saul".
Listen to the music of the first lines belonging to the poems named
in the last paragraph, if you still are not quite certain that there
is delight in reading poetry.
Coleridge's poem begins:--
Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove,
The Linnet, and Thrush, say "I love and I love!"
In the winter they're silent--the wind is so strong;
What it says, I don't know, but it sings a loud song.
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The first four lines of Bryon's poem, "She Walks in Beauty," are:--
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:--
The first stanza of Shelley's "To a Skylark" is:--
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert--
That from heaven or near it
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Even this one verse by Shelley gives us the feeling of rising high
towards heaven with the bird and hearing his song.
The beginning of Keats' poem, "The Eve of St. Agnes", is one of the
most beautiful and alluring openings in all poetry:--
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;--
Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur" is a story of Arthur and the Round Table,
and the great sword Excalibur. Its opening lines read:--
So all day long the noise of battle roll'd
Among the mountains by the winter sea;--
Browning's poems, "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix",
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin", and "Hervé Riel", you are likely to know
already. "Saul" is a more difficult poem, but in it Browning shows
his great power as a poet. {235} His love poetry, in such poems as
"The Last Ride Together", and "One Word More", is considered
Browning's finest work. "Saul" is a story taken from the Bible.
David plays on his harp to Saul, who is ill. He tries to find help
for Saul in his despondency. David finally tells Saul that God must
be a man as well as God, so that He may help us all.
He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall
stand the most weak.
'Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for! my flesh
that I seek
In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be
A Face like my face that receives thee; a man like to me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like
this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the
Christ stand!
Do you remember how we discovered earlier in this book that time
decides what is great in writing? This is true of the work of poets.
We can see for ourselves how widely great poets differ in their work.
Some write sweet, simple, clear and lovely songs; others write poetry
which is difficult to read and understand. The simple, clear and
lovely songs may last longer than the difficult poems. But if the
difficult poetry contains great meaning, it may last too. A poet
sometimes is great for the people of his own generation, but the ages
that follow may not care for his work. Yet it may be that after a
hundred years or so, people will love the poet's work again.
Is great poetry being written now! It is difficult for anyone to
answer this question with {236} certainty. Some very lovely poetry
has been written in this twentieth century, in the same way that
beautiful verse has been written in the English language for hundreds
of years.
Examples of this beautiful verse from Chaucer's time to the end of
the nineteenth century, we may find in such books as Palgrave's
_Golden Treasury of English Verse_; and _The Oxford Book of English
Verse_, 1250-1900, edited by Mr. Quiller-Couch. Several anthologies,
called _Books of Georgian Poetry_, and others beside, contain poetry
written in the twentieth century.
There are many poets of whose work we have not spoken. Some of their
names you know already; some you will learn by and by. These poets
may have lived long ago, or no longer ago than last century, or they
may be living to-day. Three outstanding names belonging to the
Victorian Age are those of Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
and Charles Algernon Swinburne. We should remember the names also of
a group of women who have written poetry: Mrs. Browning, Christina
Rossetti, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson, who is an American poet.
Some modern poets are: Rudyard Kipling, Robert Bridges, W. B. Yeats,
Rupert Brooke, James Elroy Flecker, Laurence Binyon, William Watson,
George Russell, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Alice Meynell,
Katherine Tynan, W. W. Gibson, John Masefield, James Stephens,
Lascelles Abercrombie, Siegfried Sassoon, Ralph Hodgson, Edmund
Blunden, and a sister and two brothers, three poets in one family,
Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.
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For an ending we may quote a verse from a poem written by a modern
poet, Mr. Walter de la Mare. The name of the poem is "The Listeners":
'Is there anybody there!' said the Traveller
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor;
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head:
And he smote upon the door a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
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YOUR COUNTRY AND BOOKS
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CHAPTER XXXIV
READING FOR YOUR OWN COUNTRY
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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ITS BRANCHES
Most of us, no matter where we may happen to live, are not far away
from a newspaper office. We may walk down a village street and stop
at the door of a building where a newspaper is published, or we may
drive in from the farm, and see a printing press through the open
door of the same office. Perhaps it is an old-fashioned printing
establishment where type is still set by hand; good printing often is
taken from hand-set type. Or some of you may pass, day by day, a
newspaper building in a town or city where the latest machinery is
constantly at work on edition after edition of a daily newspaper.
We know without being told that newspapers form one of the great
channels of communication in the modern world. To learn how to read
a newspaper in the best way is something we can do for our own good,
for the place in which we live, for the country round about, our own
country and nation, and so on in ever-widening circles.
Newspapers possess a special fascination for almost everyone. We
like to look in through the windows of a newspaper building and see
the {242} machinery moving rapidly. It is exciting to watch the
great sheets being folded and coming off the presses. Perhaps you
know a young man or woman who is a reporter; possibly some day you
will be a reporter yourself. It is worth spending time trying to
understand all that a newspaper means.
If we know anything about the way in which news is gathered, written,
and printed, we know that sometimes news will be inaccurate, because
newspaper work is done with speed. The work of a daily newspaper is
to provide its readers with the day's news, and this must be
accomplished quickly, or it will be to-morrow before we know where we
are. It is the pride of a newspaper to publish correct news, as far
as that is possible. But when we read a newspaper we must make
allowance for the fact that some of the news is an estimate of what
happened, rather than a statement of the absolutely true details of
what has happened. Yet it is astonishing, considering all the
circumstances, how few mistakes there are in newspapers.
We read newspapers to be well informed; to know how to relate
ourselves to the life about us; and to find out what has happened
that particularly concerns us in many different ways, as, for
instance, in sports and games, schools and education, business and
employment, about our neighbours and companions, politics and public
affairs, even the hobbies in which we are interested, flower shows,
cattle shows, sales of stamps, puzzles, jokes, wireless news,
discoveries, inventions, explorations. By reading a good newspaper
in {243} the right way we keep in touch with current history.
There are other periodical publications, besides daily newspapers,
weeklies and many monthly magazines, each of which has its own use
and purpose. Some of these publications we may need to read,
according to what our interests are. These you can choose for
yourselves, as you grow older.
What is known as literature, writing of permanent value and beauty,
not technical or scientific, but of general interest, as a rule finds
its way into books. The time has come now when we can consider for a
moment how many different literatures there are in the world.
Some writers belonging to literatures of countries other than our
own, by this time you can name for yourselves. You know that there
was a great Greek literature, a Latin literature, and Hebrew
literature. The first name that comes into your minds belonging to
Greek literature is Homer. Virgil was one of the great writers of
Latin literature. The Bible is Hebrew literature. Dante's work is
found in Italian literature; Cervantes' in Spanish literature;
Goethe's in German literature; Dumas' work and Victor Hugo's and the
work of a number of other writers belong to French literature. There
are famous Russian novelists. Hans Andersen was a Dane. Maeterlinck
is a Belgian. _The Arabian Nights_, in origins at least, takes us to
countries as far away as China, India, Persia, and Egypt. All these
literatures come into our lives and into the lives of other people,
and so we understand how famous books help to bind the world together.
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English literature is one of the great literatures of the world. If
it pleases us to do so, we can count that it begins in the times of
the Anglo-Saxons. Even if we take Chaucer as the first great name in
English literature, this means that for six hundred years, famous,
glorious books in poetry, story, drama, history, and other styles of
composition, have been produced at intervals, but in an unbroken
succession, in the literature which we can call our own.
English literature, as you know, includes the work of English,
Scottish and Irish writers. If we think of English literature as a
tree, one of its branches, which comes from the same root, is
American literature. Other branches of this tree are the literatures
of Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the work of writers in India
who publish their books in the English language, known as
Anglo-Indian literature. As you know, all these literatures, with
the exception of American literature, belong to the nations of the
British Empire. Kipling was thinking of the nations of the Empire
when he called one of his books _The Five Nations_.
Some day you may find out for yourselves how many names you can
remember of writers belonging to English literature, then any you
know belonging to the branch literatures of Canada, Australia, South
Africa and Anglo-India, and to American literature.
There are few lists in the world as splendid as the long roll of
great writers in English literature. It is worth while learning the
most famous names by heart. Numbers of these writers you know
already. Many people find the greatest {245} enjoyment they have
from books in English literature.
The names of some of the most distinguished American writers are
Emerson, Thoreau, Mark Twain, Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt
Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Fenimore Cooper, Longfellow, Parkman,
Motley, and Washington Irving; many critics would add the name of
Emily Dickinson. There are a number of interesting books in which
you can read of American literature. A librarian will help you to
choose one of them.
Names belonging to Australian and New Zealand literature are Henry
Kingsley, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Kendall, Domett, Rolf Boldrewood,
Lawson, Stephens, Louis Becke, Browne, Collins, Farjeon, Ada
Cambridge, and Mrs. Campbell Praed. Katherine Mansfield was born in
New Zealand and the lady sometimes known as "Elizabeth", Countess
Russell, in Australia. You may find in a library articles on the
writers of Australia and New Zealand. Someone might read aloud to
you from an anthology of Australian verse.
South Africa has not had long to establish a literature. One
well-known South African name is that of Olive Schreiner. Others are
Pringle, Bell, Mrs. Millin, and a young poet, Roy Campbell. A
collection of English South African poetry is called _The Treasury of
South African Poetry and Verse_.
Many Canadians have written poetry and verse in which are true
descriptions of nature and the spirit of nature in Canada. Some
Canadian poets' names you will have learned already: Roberts, {246}
Carman, Lampman, Campbell, Scott, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Marjorie
Pickthall, W. H. Drummond, whose habitant poems abound in humour and
the delineation of character, two poets who served in the War, John
McCrae and Bernard Trotter, Wilson MacDonald, and E. J. Pratt, a
native of Newfoundland, the oldest dominion in the Empire. Other
names you will find mentioned in several good anthologies.
Haliburton was a humorist. The most widely read Canadian humorist of
the present day is Mr. Stephen Leacock. Joseph Howe was a writer, an
orator and statesman. The Golden Dog, by William Kirby, is a famous
Canadian novel. Other novel writers are Miss Lily Dougall, Mrs.
Cotes, Miss Mazo de la Roche, Sir Gilbert Parker, "Ralph Connor",
Norman Duncan, Miss L. M. Montgomery. A number of writers of
Canadian fiction are doing work to-day which may become eminent.
There are writers in French Canada, both of prose and poetry.
Canadian historians, English and French, have accomplished good work.
The two series, _Makers of Canada_ and _Chronicles of Canada_,
contain histories which are well worth reading.
Here is a list of readings from Canadian literature, chapters from a
few novels, poems from books of poetry, short stories, two fairy
tales, two speeches by Canadian statesmen, a short history. These
may guide you to books which you may enjoy. In addition, we should
read William Kirby's novel, _The Golden Dog_. It is interesting to
remember that Miss Pauline Johnson, whose {247} poetical gift was
undoubted, was a Canadian Mohawk Indian.
"How Rabbit Deceived Fox" and "Sparrow's Search for the Rain", from
_Canadian Fairy Tales_, by Cyrus Macmillan.
_Beautiful Joe_, by Marshall Saunders.
"In the Big Haycart" and "Calling the Cows", from _Chez Nous_, by
Adjutor Rivard, translated by W. H. Blake.
"The Freedom of the Black-Faced Ram" from _The Watchers of the
Trails_, by C. G. D. Roberts.
"Privilege of the Limits" from _Old Man Savarin Stories_, by E. W.
Thomson.
"The Scarlet Hunter", from _Pierre and His People_; and _When Valmond
Came to Pontiac_, by Sir Gilbert Parker.
Chapter One, from _The Imperialist_, by Mrs. Cotes.
"Aunt Thankful and Her Room", from _Wise Saws and Modern Instances_,
Vol. II, Chap. 4, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
"The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias", from _Sunshine
Sketches of a Little Town_, by Stephen Leacock.
"O Love Builds on the Azure Sea", from _Malcolm's Katie_, by Isabella
Valancy Crawford.
"Where the Cattle Come to Drink" and "The Potato Harvest", from
_Songs of the Common Day_, by C. G. D. Roberts.
"The Frogs" and "Why Do You Call the Poet Lonely?" from _The Poems of
Archibald Lampman_.
"How One Winter Came in the Lake Region" and "How Spring Came", from
_Lake Lyrics_, by W. W. Campbell.
"The Ships of St. John" and "The Grave Tree", from _Poems_, by Bliss
Carman.
"Heart of Gold" and "Madame Tarte", from _Later Poems and New
Villanelles_, by S. Frances Harrison.
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"Elizabeth Speaks", and "A Legend of Christ's Nativity", from
_Lundy's Lane and Other Poems_, by Duncan Campbell Scott.
"The Habitant", "Little Bateese", "De Bell of Saint Michel", and
"Little Lac Grenier", from _The Poetical Works_ of W. H. Drummond.
"The Song My Paddle Sings", from _Flint and Feather_, by E. Pauline
Johnson.
"Bega", "The Immortal", "The Shepherd Boy", from _The Complete Poems
of Marjorie L. C. Pickthall_.
"A Song of Better Understanding", from _The Song of The Prairie
Land_, by Wilson MacDonald.
"The Shark", from _Newfoundland Verse_, by E. J. Pratt.
Speech in Hants, 1844, from _The Speeches and Public Letters of
Joseph Howe_, Chap. X. ed. by J. A. Chisholm.
"Political Liberalism", Quebec City, 1877, and "Death of Sir John
Macdonald", House of Commons, 1891, _Speeches_ by Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
_A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs_, by George M. Wrong.
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AFTERWORD
The name of this chapter, Afterword, seems as if it were an ending.
But some endings in reality are beginnings. We all know the look of
a catalogue of seeds, with its brilliantly coloured flowers. This
book, which belongs to you, in one sense is like a seedsman's
catalogue. The true delight of gardening is in choosing the seeds,
digging, fertilizing and smoothing the garden till it is ready for
sowing and planting. Then we look forward to the first green leaves,
flowers, and fruits. There is an infinite deal to learn about
gardens, and the seedsman's catalogue is only the beginning. This
book is the beginning of the voyage of discovery in the world of your
own books.
Because we have spoken in the preceding chapters almost wholly of
writers and books, we should take care not to place too much emphasis
on writing as an occupation. The world owes much to the writers of
great books,--happiness, inspiration, enjoyment, wisdom which we may
take from them if we will, learning, and at all times, unending
entertainment.
But how many other people there are in the world to whom we owe love
and gratitude: soldiers, sailors, explorers, inventors, statesmen,
law-givers, physicians, discoverers, scientists, preachers, teachers,
evangelists, missionaries, {250} fathers, mothers, all the men and
women who make our streets, build our houses, bake our bread, bring
us food, make our clothes, sell us what we need, look after the
finances of the world, manage our railways and run the trains, fly in
airships, and of great importance in their occupation, men and women
who grow food as farmers. Still, we dearly love good books and great
writers.
No one should read all the time, for people are more important than
books. Yet it would be a pity for any boy or girl not to read at
all. Francis Bacon, the essayist, of whom we learned a very little
in the chapter on essays and essayists, says in one of his writings:
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an
exact man."
Bacon means by the first part of this saying that a man who does not
read at all is sometimes empty-minded, while a man who reads well has
many thoughts in his mind, good, sweet and profitable. If Bacon were
in the world to-day, and noticed, as he would be certain to notice,
for Bacon was a most observant man, how much time some people spend
in reading, he might have added a sentence saying that continual
reading may keep people from thinking. Rightly used, books are an
aid in teaching us how to think.
There are many books which have not been mentioned in these pages,
some of them famous, many of them delightful, important or amusing.
Some of these books you will find for yourselves {251} as time goes
on; some you may know already. Perhaps you may have wondered why
nothing has been said of this or that book. But it is true that
there is always an individual choice in books, as in other things.
You will find--and love--your own books, the books which belong to
you. To discover one's own books for one's self is a great adventure.
Some of you may be specially interested in French literature; and,
presently, you will read the works of the great French dramatist
Molière, one of whose characters is the famous Monsieur Jourdain, who
had spoken prose all his life without knowing it. Balzac and
Flaubert are two other names among a multitude of French writers.
The literatures of other countries offer us reading which many people
enjoy greatly.
Numbers of fine books are continually being produced by writers in
English. English novels especially make good reading. Among writers
of a comparatively recent date who have not been mentioned are John
Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry James, an American, Anthony Trollope,
William Morris, George Du Maurier, William de Morgan, and many
others. Certainly, if you can find time, read the witty,
entertaining Irish stories of two ladies, E. OE. Somerville and
Martin Ross, especially their first book, _Some Experiences of an
Irish R. M._
Then there are modern writers, writers of your own day. Remember
that a library is an {252} excellent place in which to obtain advice
and help in reading, especially in choosing modern books. There are
many modern novelists, critics, and dramatists, as well as poets,
whose work is well known. Some names are: Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells,
Arnold Bennett, Quiller-Couch, Max Beerbohm, John Galsworthy, Anthony
Hope, W. W. Jacobs, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather, Norman Douglas,
H. M. Tomlinson, Clemence Dane, Virginia Woolf, George Moore, Hugh
Walpole, May Sinclair, Mary Webb, E. M. Delafield,, James Stephens,
Henry Williamson and J. C. Squire, as well as others whose names you
will add to the list when you read their books. Such writers as
Katherine Mansfield and W. H. Hudson have left work which belongs to
the present day, and may last for generations.
Great books are sometimes difficult to read, but when we conquer a
great book we have discovered a new country, and enjoy the reward of
the discoverer. It is a matter of choice whether we learn how to
read great books that are difficult; but to read well is always a
good choice.
We should never forget, however, that one of the principles of good
reading is to read books in which we find pleasure. We will grow
most successfully in this way along the lines of our own natural
tastes and inclinations. So if we prefer history, let us read
history; and biography, if this reading gives us most pleasure. In
the same way, following each his or her own special preference, we
may choose mechanics, invention, exploration, {253} travel, science,
architecture, art, music, poetry, essays, criticism, or books which
will help us in the study of human nature. Books on the betterment
of the world and on social conditions, books about homes and home
life, are important.
Some people obtain most benefit from reading a very few books
carefully, while others read many books. There are people, often of
great value to the world, who are not as much interested in books as
they are in action. They prefer travelling to reading of travels;
and would choose to build a bridge, or climb a mountain, rather than
read history or poetry. The French have a proverb which says,
_Chacun à son gôut_, which means each to his own taste; and this is
true in books as it is in other things.
Do you remember the list of books in Chapter twenty-eight, on Reading
for What You Want To Be, many of them biographies? Some day, when
you have an opportunity, ask permission to look over the books in the
working library of some man or woman who is following the occupation
with attracts you most. We can learn a great deal from the attentive
study of such a library. Presently, you may begin to collect your
own library. The best way to do this is slowly, with taste,
discrimination and care. There is great enjoyment in buying, one by
one, the books you care for most; and so, almost before you know what
is happening, you will have a library of your own. Which book would
you choose first to buy for your own library? Sometimes, in looking
through the library of a friend, we may find the very first book
bought by the owner of the library when he was a {254} boy, or when
the owner was a girl, as the case may be.
One of the pleasures of reading is to read according to times and
seasons: To read books of out-of-doors on winter evenings, as well as
books of adventure; to read poetry in summer, when we can spend much
time under the sky. But those who love poetry, read it all through
the year. We may read essays and biography when we are lonely and
long for companionship. Novels are constantly enjoyable; a good
novel tells us much about human nature.
One of the most beautiful seasons for reading is at Christmas time.
Year by year, we may read the story of the shepherds in Saint Luke,
ballads of Christmas, _A Christmas Carol_ by Charles Dickens, and
Milton's great "Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity". Reading
of this character deepens our happiness.
By such means as these we come to recognize good reading, and can
test all books by the great books we have read.
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INDEX
NDX
Abbess Hilda, 185
Abercrombie, Lascelles, 236
Achilles, 86-7
_Adam Bede_, 159, 196
Addison, Joseph, 186, 212
_Aeneid_, The, 134
Aesop, 90-1
Agamemnon, King, 86
Agrippa, King, 168
Ainger, Canon, 210
Aladdin, 94
Alcinous, 88
"Alexander's Feast", 233
Ali Baba, 94
_Alice in Wonderland_, 97-9, 101
Amiens, 40
"Ancient Mariner, The", 228-9
Andersen, Hans, 93, 243
Anne of Austria, 60
_Anne of Geierstein_, 25
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 44
_Antiquary, The_, 25-6
Antonio, 35
Aphrodite, 85
Apollo, 86
Apollyon, 144
_Arabian Nights, The_, 93, 243
Aramis, 60-1
Arden, Mary, 42
Argonauts, The, 88
Ariel, 36-7
Arnold, Matthew, 214, 246
_Around Home_, 196
Arthur, King, 94-6
_As You Like It_, 43
Athos, 60-1
Aunt Polly, 81
Austen, Jane, 154-7, 187
Aytoun, W. E., 123
Bacon, Francis, 211, 250
Bagheera, 104
Ballad of the Red Harlaw, 27
Ballads, 65
Baloo, 104
Balzac, Honoré, 251
_Barnaby Rudge_, 3, 7
Barrie, James Matthew, 107, 187
Bates, Mrs. and Miss, 155
"Battle of Otterbourne, The", 112-4, 166
Baucis, 88
Bayly, Harry, 169
Beatrice, 133-5
Beaufort, Duc de, 61
Beaumains, 95
Becke, Louis, 245
Beerbohm, Max, 252
Bell, 245
Bennet, Mr., 155-6
Bennett, Arnold, 252
Beowulf, 185
Berners, Lord, 167
Bernice, Queen, 168
Bible, The, 48-56, 243
Bible, Authorized Version, 54
Binyon, Laurence, 236
_Biographia Literaria_, 214
Black Knight, The, 24
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, 70
Black Panther, The, 104
Blake, William, 18, 19
_Bleak House_, 4, 8
Blue Beard, 92
_Blue Bird, The_, 106
Blunden, Edmund, 236
Boffin, Mr., 8, 20, 181
Boldrewood, Rolf, 245
Bones, Billy, 64
_Books of Georgian Poetry_, 236
Borrow, George, 76-8
Boswell, James, 188-93
Bragelonne, Vicomte de, 60
Brandes, Georg, 214
_Bride of Lammermoor, The_, 25
Bridges, Robert, 236
British North America Act, 178
Brontë, Anne, 160
Brontë, Branwell, 160
Brontë, Charlotte, 160-1
Brontë, Emily, 160-1, 236
Brontë, Patrick, 160
Brooke, Rupert, 236
Browne, 245
Browning, Robert, 218, 230, 233-5
Browning, Mrs., 218, 236
Brutus, 46
Buchan, John, 116, 191
Bunyan, John, 142-6, 186
Burke, Edmund, 175, 186
Burney, Fanny, 218
Burns, Robert, 196
Burton, Sir Richard, 206
Butcher, S. H., 88
Byron, Lord, 230, 233-4
Caedmon, 185
Caliban, 36
Cambridge, Ada, 245
Campbell, Roy, 245
_Canterbury Tales, The_, 169-71, 231
Carleton, Will, 196
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 218
Carlyle, Thomas, 183
Carman, Bliss, 246
Caroline, Queen, 27
Carroll, Lewis, 99, 101
Cary, Rev. H. F., 134
Castlewood, Lady, 149
Cather, Willa, 252
_Catriona_, 65
Caxton, 94, 186
Cedric, 24
Cervantes, 136-9, 141, 157, 243
Charles I, 182
Charpentier, Miss, 30
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 44, 169-71, 185, 230-1
"Chevy Chase", 112, 166
Child Rowland, 226-7
_Child's Garden of Verse, A_, 65
Chingachgook, 80
_Christmas Carol, A_, 4, 7, 13, 254
Christian, 142-6
Christiana, 146
Christopher Robin, 101
_Chronicles_, (Froissart), 167-8
_Chronicles of Canada_, 246
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 195
Cinderella, 92
Clemens, Samuel, 82
Clio, 172
Cobden, Richard, 176
Cochrane, Lord, 72
Cockburn, Lord, 32
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 210, 212-3, 218, 228-9, 230, 233
Collins, 245
Columbus, Christopher, 202
Confederation Act, 178
Connor, Ralph, 246
_Conspiracy of Pontiac, The_, 183
Cook, James, 203-5
Cooper, James Fenimore, 78-80, 245
Cotes, Mrs., 246
"Cotter's Saturday Night, The", 196
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 212
Cowper, William, 122, 215-6
Cratchit, Bob, 7
Cratchits, The, 17
Crawford, Isabella Valancy, 246
Crawley, Rawdon, 149
Curly, 107
Cuttle, Captain, 8
_Cymbeline_, 44, 46
Dale, Laetitia, 150
Dan, 105
Dana, Richard Henry, 73
Dandie Dinmont, 195
Dane, Clemence, 252
_Daniel Deronda_, 160
Dante, 133-6, 141, 202, 243
Darling, John, 107
Darling, Michael, 107
Darling, Wendy, 107
d'Artagnan, 59-61
_David Balfour_, 65
_David Copperfield_, 3, 6, 7, 9, 13
Davies, W. H., 236
Deans, Jeanie, 25, 27
_Debits and Credits_, 157
Defoe, Daniel, 68-70, 186
Delafield, E. M., 252
de la Mare, Walter, 236-7
de la Roche, Mazo, 246
de Morgan, William, 251
Dhu, Sir Roderick, 118-9
_Diana of the Crossways_, 150-1
Dickens, Charles, 3-20, 171-2, 187, 195, 218, 254
Dickinson, Emily, 236, 245
_Dictionary of Modern English Usage_, 221, 232
_Discovery of the Great West_, 183
_Divine Comedy, The_, 133-6
Djali, 63
Dobbin, Major, 149
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 99
_Dombey and Son_, 4, 7, 8, 14
Dombey, Florence, 7-8
Dombey, Paul, 8
Domett, 245
Don Quixote, 136-9
Doone, Carver, 71
Dorritt, Mr., 14
Dougall, Lily, 246
Douglas, Ellen, 118-9
Douglas, Earl of, 113, 118, 167
Douglas, Norman, 252
"Do You Ask What the Birds Say?", 233
Dulcinea, 137
Dumas, Alexandre, 59-62, 243
Du Maurier, George, 251
Duncan, Norman, 246
Dundonald, Earl of, 72
Drake, Sir Francis, 105
_Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_, 66
Drummond, W. H., 246
Dryden, John, 186, 230-1, 233
_Dynasts, The_, 153
"Edinburgh After Flodden", 123
Edward III, 167
_Edwin Drood_, 4
_Egoist, The_, 150-1
Eliot, George, 196, 157-60
Elizabeth, Queen, 23, 184
"Elizabeth", 245
_Elizabeth and Essex_, 184
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 245
_Emma_, 154-6
Esmeralda, 63
_Esmond_, 149
Esmond, Beatrix, 149
_Essays of Elia, The_, 210
Evangelist, 142
Evans, Mary Ann, 159
Evelyn, John, 218
"Eve of St. Agnes, The", 233-4
_Faery Queen, The_, 139-41, 231
Faggis, Tom, 71
_Fair Maid of Perth, The_, 25
Fairservice, Andrew, 22
Faithful, 143-4
Farjeon, 245
_Faust_, 141
Feenix, Cousin, 8
_Felix Holt_, 160
Festus, 168
Fielding, Henry, 157, 186
Fitzgerald, Edward, 218
Fitz-James, James, 118-9
_Five Nations, The_, 244
Flaubert, Gustave, 251
Flecker, James Elroy, 228, 236
Flibbertigibbet, 23
Forster, John, 10, 194
_Fortunes of Nigel, The_, 25
Foster, Anthony, 23
Foster, Janet, 23
Fowler, H. W., 232, 221
Friday, 69
Froissart, Sir John, 167-8
Frollo, Claude, 63
_Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV_, 183
Galland, Antoine, 93
_Gallipoli_, 185
Galsworthy, John, 252
Gamp, Sairey, 7
Gareth of Orkney, 95
Garland, Hamlin, 196
Garrick, David, 186, 192
Genesis, 48
Giant Despair, 144
Gibbon, Edward, 181, 186
Gibson, W. W., 236
Gilpin, John, 122-3
Gitche Manito, 126
Gladstone, William Ewart, 195
Goethe, 141, 243
_Golden Age, The_, 99-100
_Golden Dog, The_, 74, 246
"Golden Road to Samarkand, The", 228
_Golden Treasury of English Verse_, 236
Goldsmith, Oliver, 186, 192
Gonzalo, 35-7
Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 245
Graeme, Malcolm, 119
Grahame, Kenneth, 99-100
Gray, Thomas, 218
Great Charter, The, 177
_Great Expectations_, 8, 4
Great-heart, Mr., 146
Green, John Richard, 183
Greville, Charles, 218
Grimm, Jacob and William, 92
Gringoire, Pierre, 63
Gudule, 63
Guedalla, Philip, 184
Gummidge, Mrs., 7
Gurth, 24
_Guy Mannering_, 195
Hall, John, 42
_Hamlet_, 43-5
Hardy, Thomas, 147, 151-3, 187
_Hassan_, 228
Hathaway, Anne, 42
Hathi, 104
Hawk-eye, 80
Hawkins, Jim, 64
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 88, 245
Haydon, Benjamin, 218
Hazlitt, William, 43, 210, 212-4
_Heart of Mid-Lothian, The_, 25, 27
Hector, 86
Heep, Uriah, 7
Help, 142
Heming, Arthur, 82
Henry VIII, 167
Henry, Alexander, 206
Hephaistos, 86-7
_Hereward the Wake_, 71
Herodotus, 166
_Heroes, The_, 88-9
Heron, Sir Hugh, 120
"Hervé Riel", 234
Hexam, Lizzie, 8
_Hiawatha, The Song of_, 125-8
Higden, Mrs. Betty, 8
_History of England_, (Macaulay), 123, 182
_History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, (Gibbon), 181
_History of the War in the Peninsula_, (Napier), 183
_History of the World_, (Raleigh), 181
Hodgson, Ralph, 236
Hogarth, Catherine, 12
Hogarth, George, 12
Hogg, James, 108
Holinshed's Chronicles, 44
Homer, 85-8, 141, 243
Hook, Captain, 107
Hope, Anthony, 252
Hopeful, 144
_House at Pooh Corner, The_, 101
_How I found Livingstone in Central Africa_, 206
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," 234
Howe, Joseph, 246
_Huckleberry Finn_, 80-2, 100
Hudson, W. H., 252
Hugo, Victor, 62-4, 243
"Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity", (Milton), 232, 254
Iagoo, 126
_Iliad, The_, 85-7, 89
_In Pastures Green_, 196
"In Time of Pestilence", 227
Irving, Washington, 33, 101, 245
Isaac of York, 24
_Ivanhoe_, 23-5
Jack the Giant Killer, 92
Jacobs, W. W., 252
James, Henry, 251
James II, 70
James V of Scotland, 118
_Jane Eyre_, 160-1
Jarvie, Bailie Nicol, 22
Jellyby, Caddy, 8
_Jesuits in North America, The_, 183
Jim, 81
John, King of England, 24, 177
Johnson, Pauline, 246
Johnson, Samuel, 182, 186, 188-93
Jonson, Ben, 229
Jourdain, Monsieur, 251
_Julius Caesar_, 39, 43, 46, 194
_Jungle Book, The_, 103-4
_Just So Stories_, 105
Kay, Sir, 95
Keats, John, 218, 225, 230, 233-4
Kemble, Frances Anne, 218
Kendall, 245
_Kenilworth_, 23-25
_Kidnapped_, 65
"Kilmeny", 108
_Kim_, 82
_King Henry V_, 171
_King Lear_, 44
_King Richard II_, 43
Kingsley, Charles, 71, 88
Kingsley, Henry, 245
Kingsley, Mary, 205-6
Kipling, John Lockwood, 103
Kipling, Rudyard, 82, 103-6, 157, 187, 236, 244
Kirby, William, 74, 246
Knightley, Mr. 155
Knights of the Round Table, 94-6
Kublai Khan, 202-3
Lady Lionesse, 96
_Lady of the Lake, The_, 33, 118
Lamb, Charles, 209-11, 213-4, 218
Lamb, Mary, 210
Lampman, Archibald, 246
Lang, Andrew, 85, 88, 92
La Salle, 206
_Last of the Mohicans, The_, 78
"Last Ride Together, The", 235
Launcelot, Sir, 96
_Lavengro_, 76-8
Lawrence, T. E., 206
Lawson, 245
_Lay of the Last Minstrel, The_, 30, 121
_Lays of Ancient Rome_, 123
_Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers_, 123
Leacock, Stephen, 246
Leaf, Walter, 85
Leatherstocking Tales, 79
Lecky, W. E. H., 183
Lee, Sir Sidney, 184, 194
Legality, 142
Leicester, Earl of, 23
Leigh, Amyas, 71
_Les Misérables_, 62-3
_Life and Letters_, (Page), 194
_Life of Dickens_, 194
_Life of Gladstone_, 194
_Life of Johnson_, 188-93
_Life of King Edward VII_, 184
_Life of Palmerston_, 184
_Life of Sir Walter Scott_, 32, 194
Linet, 96
"Listeners, The", 237
_Little Dorrit_, 4, 10
Little Em'ly, 6
Little Match Girl, The, 93
Livesay, Dr., 64
_Living Forest, The_, 82
"Lochinvar", 121
Lockhart, J. G., 32, 34, 194
Locksley, 24
Lone Wolf, 104
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 125, 245
_Lord of the Isles, The_, 121
_Lord Randolph Churchill_, 194
_Lorna Doone_, 70, 196
Louis XIII, 60
Louis XIV, 60
"Love in the Valley", 227
Lucas, E. V., 210
Lucy, Sir Thomas, 42
Luke, Saint, 254
Macaulay, Lord, 123, 182
_Macbeth_, 43, 44
MacDonald, Wilson, 246
MacGregor, Helen, 22
MacGregor, Rob Roy, 22
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, 206
Mad Hatter, 97
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 106, 243
_Makers of Canada, The_, 246
Malory, Sir Thomas, 94-6, 186
Mansfield, Katherine, 245, 252
_Mansfield Park_, 156
Marco Polo, 202-3
_Marmion_, 120-1
Marryat, Frederick, 72-3
_Martin Chuzzlewit_, 4, 7, 13
Masefield, John, 82, 185, 236
_Master of Ballantrae, The_, 66
Mazarin, 60
McArthur, Peter, 196
McCrae, John, 246
McGee, D'Arcy, 176
Melville, Herman, 245
_Merchant of Venice_, 39, 45
Mercy, 146
Meredith, George, 147, 150-1, 227
Meynell, Alice, 236
Micawber, Wilkins, 7, 14
_Middlemarch_, 160
Middleton, Clara, 150
_Midshipman Easy_, 73
_Midsummer Night's Dream, A_, 39, 40, 43
_Midwinter_, 191
_Mill on the Floss, The_, 157-9
Millin, Sarah Gertrude, 245
Milne, A. A., 101
Milton, John, 186, 212-3, 230, 232-3, 254
Minnehaha, 127
_Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_, 30, 112
Miranda, 35-7
Molière, 251
Monk, General, 61
Montaigne, M. E., 212
Montgomery, Sir Hugh, 113
Montgomery, L. M., 100, 246
Moore, George, 252
Moore, Thomas, 218
Morley, John, 194
Morris, William, 251
_Morte d'Arthur_, 94-6, 186, 233-4
Motley, John Lothrop, 183, 245
Mowcher, Miss, 7
Mowgli, 104
Mudjekeewis, 126-7
Myers, Ernest, 85
Myriel, Bishop, 63
Mytyl, 106
Naaman, 50
Napier, 182
Nash, Thomas, 227
Nausicaa, 88
Newcome, Colonel, 149-50
New Testament, 48-9
_Newcomes, The_, 148-50
Nibs, 107
_Nicholas Nickleby_, 3, 7
Nickleby, Mrs., 14
Nipper, Susan, 8, 20
Nokomis, 126
North, 44
_Northanger Abbey_, 156
_Northern Muse, The_, 116
_Notre Dame de Paris_, 62-3
_Now We Are Six_, 101
Ochiltree, Edie, 25-7
"Ode on Intimations of Immortality", 226, 233
"Ode to a Nightingale", 225
"Ode to the West Wind", 233
Odysseus, 88
_Odyssey, The_, 87-9
_Old Curiosity Shop_, 3, 7
_Old Mortality_, 25
_Old Régime in Canada, The_, 183
Old Testament, 48-9
_Oliver Twist_, 3
"One Word More", 235
Osbaldistone, Francis, 22
Osbaldistone, Sir Hildebrand, 22
Osborne, George, 149
Osbourne, Lloyd, 64
Ossian, 29
_Othello_, 43-4
Our Mutual Friend, 4, 8, 181
_Oxford Book of English Verse_, 108, 236
Page, Walter H., 194-5
Palgrave, Francis, 236
Paris, 85
Parker, Sir Gilbert, 246
Parkman, Francis, 183, 206, 245
Patroklos, 86
_Pioneers of France in the New World_, 183
Pater, Walter, 251
Patterne, Crossjay, 151
Patterne, Sir Willoughby, 151
Paul, Saint, 50, 168
Pearl-Feather, 128
Pecksniff, Mr., 7
Peggotty, Ham, 6, 20
_Pendennis_, 149
Penelope, 88
Pepys, Samuel, 218-20
Percy, Bishop, 112, 114
_Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry_, 29
Percy, Lord, 113
_Persuasion_, 156
Perseus, 88
Peter Pan, 107
_Peter Simple_, 73
_Petulengro, Jasper_, 77
Pew, 64
Philemon, 88
Philippa, Queen of Hainault, 167
Phoebus, Capt., 63
Pickthall, Marjorie L. C., 246
Pickwick, Mr., 4, 6, 20, 171
_Pickwick Papers_, 3, 6, 171-2
"_Pied Piper of Hamelin, The_", 234
_Pilgrimage to Mecca_, 206
_Pilgrim's Progress, The_, 143-6
Pinch, Tom, 7, 20
Pinkerton, Miss, 149
Pip, 8
Pitt, William, 175
Planchet, 61
Plato, 174
_Plutarch's Lives_, 44, 194
Poe, Edgar Allan, 245
Pope, Alexander, 186, 230-1, 233
Porthos, 60-1
Poseidon, 86
Poyser, Mrs., 159, 196
Praed, Mrs. Campbell, 245
Pratt, E. J., 246
Priam, 86
_Pride and Prejudice_, 155-6
Prig, Betsey, 7
Prince Otto, 66
Pringle, 245
Procter, 210
Prospero, 35-7, 40, 44
"Proud Maisie", 27
Psalms, 54
_Puck of Pook's Hill_, 105-6
Purdie, Tom, 32
Puss-in-Boots, 92
Quasimodo, 63
_Queens of England_, (Strickland), 183
Quiller-Couch, Sir A., 236, 252
Quiney, Thomas, 42
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 23, 180-1
"Rape of the Lock, The", 233
Rebecca, 24
_Red Cow and Her Friends, The_, 196
Red Cross Knight, 139-40, 231
Red Shoes, The, 93
_Redgauntlet_, 25, 27
_Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_, 112
_Republic of Plato, The_, 174
_Return of the Native, The_, 151
_Revolt in the Desert_, 206
_Rewards and Fairies_, 105-6
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 186, 192
Richard, King of England, 24
Richardson, Samuel, 186
Richelieu, Cardinal, 60
Ridd, Jan, 70
Rikki-tiki-tavi, 104
Riley, James Whitcombe, 196
_Rip Van Winkle_, 101-2
_Rise of the Dutch Republic_, 183
Ritchie, Mrs., 148, 150
_Rob Roy_, 21-3, 25
Roberts, Charles G. D., 245
Robin Hood, 24
_Robinson Crusoe_, 68
Robsart, Amy, 23
Robinson, Crabb, 210
Rochefort, 59
_Rokeby_, 121
_Romeo and Juliet_, 39, 43
_Romola_, 159
Rosalind, 45
Ross, Martin, 251
Rossetti, Christina, 236
Rossetti, D. G., 236
_Round the World in Eighty Days_, 71
Rowena, 24
Rozinante, 137
Ruskin, John, 251
Russell, Countess, 245
Russell, George, 236
Rustician, 202
Sainte-Beuve, 214
Sancho Panza, 137-9
_Sard Harker_, 82
Sassoon, Siegfried, 236
"Saul", 233-5
Schah-riar, 94
Schehera-zade, 94
Schreiner, Olive, 245
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 246
Scott, Captain R. F., 206
_Scott's Last Expedition_, 206
Scott, Sophia, 32
Scott, Sir Walter, 21-34, 62, 112, 118-21, 187, 194, 218, 220
Scott's _Journal_, 220
_Second Jungle Book, The_, 103-4
Sedley, Amelia, 148-9
Sedley, Jos., 149
Selkirk, Alexander, 68
_Sense and Sensibility_, 156
Setebos, 36
Sévigné, Madam de, 216-8
Shaftesbury, Lord, 218
Shakespeare, Hamnet, 42
Shakespeare, John, 41
Shakespeare, Judith, 42-44
Shakespeare, Susanna, 42
Shakespeare, William, 35-47, 171, 186, 194, 195, 212-3, 226, 231-2,
230
_Shakespeare_ (Lee), 194
Sharp, Becky, 148-9
Shaw, Bernard, 252
Shere Khan, 104
"She Walks in Beauty", 233-4
Shelley, 233-4, 230
_Short History of the English People_ (Green), 183
Shylock, 45
Sidney, Sir Philip, 29
_Silas Marner_, 159
Silver, John, 65
Silver Locks, 92
Sinclair, May, 252
Sindbad, 94
"Sir Patrick Spens", 114-6
Sitwell, Edith, 236
Sitwell, Osbert, 236
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 236
_Sketches by Boz_, 12
Slightly, 107
Sloppy, 8
Smith, Wayland, 23
Smollett, Tobias, 157, 186
Snodgrass, Mr., 20, 171
Snow-Drop and the Seven Dwarfs, 93
Socrates, 174
_Some Experiences of an Irish R.M._, 251
Somers, Sir George, 38
Somerville, E. OE, 251
_Son of the Middle Border, A_, 196
Spenlow, Dora, 7
Spenlow, Mr., 7
Spens, Sir Patrick, 114
Spenser, Edmund, 23, 29, 139-41, 186, 230, 231
_Spirit of the Age, The_, 214
Squeers, Wackford, 7
Squire, J. C., 252
Stanley, Henry M., 206
Steadfast Tin Soldier, The, 93
Steele, Sir Richard, 186, 212
Steerforth, 7
Stephens, James, 236, 245, 252
Sterne, Laurence, 186
Stevenson, R. L., 64-6, 212, 218, 227
Stevenson, Thomas, 64
Strachey, Lytton, 184
Strickland, Agnes, 183
Swift, Dean, 186, 212, 218
Swinburne, Charles Algernon, 236
Swiveller, Dick, 7
Sycorax, 36
Taine, H. A., 214
_Tale of Two Cities, A_, 4, 16
_Tales from Shakespeare_, 210
Talfourd, 210
_Tanglewood Tales_, 88-9
Tapley, Mark, 7, 20
Tarkington, Booth, 252
Telemachus, 88
_Tempest, The_, 35-8, 40, 44
Tennyson, Alfred, 230, 233-4
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 147-50, 187, 218
Theseus, 88
Thetis, 86-7
Thoreau, 245
_Three Musketeers, The_, 59-61
_Through the Looking-Glass_, 98
Thucydides, 166
Tinker Bell, 107
Tiny Tim, 7, 17
_Tom Brown's School Days_, 214
_Tom Sawyer_, 80-2, 100
"To a Skylark", 233-4
Tomlinson, H. M., 252
Toomai of the Elephants, 104
Tootles, 107
Toots, 7, 8
Traddles, 7
_Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories_, 206
_Travels in West Africa_, 206
_Travels of Marco Polo, The_, 202-3
_Treasure Island_, 64-5
_Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse, The_, 245
Trelawney, Squire, 64
Tressilian, 23
Treville, M. de, 60
Trollope, Anthony, 251
Trotter, Bernard, 246
Trotwood, Miss Betsey, 7, 20
_Trumpet-Major, The_, 151-2
Tuck, Friar, 24
Tulliver, Tom and Maggie, 157-9
Tupman, Mr., 20, 171
Twain, Mark, 80-2, 245
_Twelfth Night_, 39-40, 43
_Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea_, 71
_Twenty Years After_, 60
_Two Years Before the Mast_, 73-4
Tylette, 106
Tylo, 106
Tyltyl, 106
Tynan, Katherine, 236
Ugly Duckling, The, 93
Una, 105, 140, 231
Uncas, 80
_Under the Greenwood Tree_, 151-2
_Underwoods_, 65
"Upon Westminster Bridge", 233
Valjean, Jean, 63-4
_Vanity Fair_, 148-9
Venus, Mr., 8
Verne, Jules, 71
Vernon, Die, 22
_Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 192
Victoria, Queen, 184
Virgil, 134, 141, 243
_Virginians, The_, 149
_Voyages_, (Cook), 203-5
_Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America_, 206
Walpole, Horace, 218
Walpole, Hugh, 252
Wamba, 24
Wandering Willie's Tale, 27
Wardour, Sir Arthur, 26
Watson, William, 236
_Waverley_, 24
Waverley Novels, 21-7
Webb, Mary, 252
Wegg, Silas, 8, 181
_Weir of Hermiston_, 65
Weller, Sam, 5, 6, 20, 171
Weller, Tony, 6
Wellington, Duke of, 183
Wells, H. G., 252
Wenonah, 120
_Westward Ho!_, 71
_When We Were Very Young_, 101
White Rabbit, The, 97-8
Whitman, Walt, 245
Wild Swans, The, 93
Wilfer family, 8
_Wilhelm Meister_, 141
Williamson, Henry, 252
William the Silent, 183
Wind in the Willows, The, 99-100
Winkle, 20, 171
_Winnie the Pooh_, 101
_Winter's Tale, The_, 44
Wolf, Father and Mother, 104
_Wonder Book, The_, 88-9
Woodhouse, Mr., 154
Woodstock, 25
Woolf, Virginia, 252
Worldly-Wiseman, 142
Wordsworth, William, 210, 226, 230, 233
"World, The", 233
Wortley-Montagu, Lady Mary, 218
Wren, Jenny, 8
_Wuthering Heights_, 160-1
Yeats, W. B., 227, 236
Zeus, 86
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