fancy became so full of enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, and wooings (which he read of in books of chivalry), that he became quite mad, and fancied that it was right and requisite that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armor and on horseback, in quest of adventures, putting in practice all that he had read of knights-errant, righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger, from which he was to reap eternal renown and fame.

The Don's imagination makes something extraordinary out of the most prosaic incident; whenever he acts he gets into trouble. His world and the real world continually clash, much to his astonishment.

The book entitled "Don Quixote" was written by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), a Spanish poet and novelist, and its satire. swept away the last relics and practices of the days of chivalry.

Anselmo is a story written by Jean Ingelow (1820-1897), an English woman who wrote poems, novels, and books for children. She is best known to the children as the author of the poem "Seven Times One," and the story of "Mopsa, the Fairy."

The Building of the Ship was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), an American poet. Among his best known poems are "Evangeline," "Hiawatha," "The Children's Hour," "The Village Blacksmith," and "A Psalm of Life."

Longfellow was born at Portland, Me., and lived many years at Cambridge, Mass., while he was a professor at Harvard College.

The Miraculous Pitcher is one of the stories in the "Wonder Book," which was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), a famous American author who wrote many novels and books for children.

The "Wonder Book" contains several stories, all of which are founded on classic myths. "The Miraculous Pitcher" is founded on a Greek tale, according to which Philemon and Baucis offered hos

pitality to the two Greek gods Zeus (Jupiter) and Hermes (Mercury), and were rewarded for their generosity. Another one of these stories is called "The Golden Touch," and is founded on the familiar story of King Midas.

Our Country Neighbors was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), a noted American writer. She wrote several novels and stories for children. Her most famous work was "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published before the Civil War. It has been translated into more than twenty languages, and has been dramatized and acted in many towns and cities both in Europe and America. Tom Brown at Rugby; Hare and Hounds. — Thomas Hughes (1823– 1896), an English author and reformer, who was educated at Rugby (a school for boys in England), wrote "Tom Brown's School Days," from which these selections are made. He wrote later a sequel to the book entitled "Tom Brown at Oxford," which gives as accurate a picture of life in that famous university as "Tom Brown's School Days" gives of the life of a schoolboy at Rugby.

Sindbad, the Sailor, is one of the many delightful stories in the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments.” This is a book which has been enjoyed by English-speaking people for nearly two hundred years. Before that time it had been the delight of Western Asia and of the Mohammedan colonies in Europe and Northern Africa for many centuries. Since its first translation into French it has been translated into every language of Europe.

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The stories are pure narrative, without any object but that of amusing the reader: they are simply stories. Two of the most familiar are "Aladdin's Lamp" and “ Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."

The New Year was written by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), who was poet-laureate of England in the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1845 until the time of his death. His poems have had the greatest popularity of any written in the nineteenth century.

Mr. Pickwick Drives; Mr. Winkle Skates. - These two selections are taken from "Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), one of the most popular of English novelists.

"Pickwick Papers" contains a most humorous account of the fortunes and misfortunes of the four gentlemen, Messrs. Pickwick, Snodgrass, Tupman, and Winkle, who together formed the Pickwick Club, and whose humorous though impossible adventures have been laughed over for years by the people of two continents. Weller is one of the best known figures in humorous fiction.

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Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput. This is a selection from "Gulliver's Travels" which was written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), an English man of letters. The book contains an account of four voyages of an English sailor, named Lemuel Gulliver. On one of these voyages he was shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, the inhabitants of which were so small that Gulliver seemed to them a giant. On another voyage he visited Brobdingnag, the home of a race of giants.

Two Old Soldiers is a selection from "The Alhambra " by Washington Irving (1783-1859), an American historian, essayist, and novelist. He became greatly interested in Spain, and spent several years in that country. While there he wrote "The Life and Voyages of Columbus," "The Conquest of Granada," and "The Alhambra." The latter grew out of a few months' residence in the almost deserted palace and fortification of Alhambra in Granada. It consists of chapters of Moorish history and a number of Moorish legends.

Irving's best known tales are "Rip Van Winkle" and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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