to Harper & Brothers for the selection from Wonder Stories from Herodotus; to Doubleday, Page & Co. for the selections from Howard Weeden, Sidney Lanier, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and Grace King; to Frederick A. Stokes for the selection from Henry Haynie; to Little, Brown & Co. for the selection from Margaret Junkin Preston; also for the selection from Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated from the original Polish by Jeremiah Curtin; to Frederick Warne & Co., New York, publishers of Norley Chester's Stories from Dante; to J. B. Lippincott & Co. for the selection from Fisher's Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Days; to William Hamilton Hayne for The Charge at Santiago and the Lyric of Action; to the Butterick Publishing Company for A Gallant Girl; to James Pott & Co. for the selection from J. Paterson Smyth; to Mrs. J. H. Boner for the selection from John Henry Boner; to Bickers & Son, London, for the selection from Dixon's Her Majesty's Tower; to Longmans, Green & Co. for the selection from Henderson's Life of Jackson; to Ginn & Company for the selections from W. J. Long and Ripley Hitchcock; to Henry W. Grady, Jr., for the selections from Henry W. Grady; to McClure's Magazine for the selection from James Barnes; to Chatto & Windus, London, for a selection from their illustrated English edition of Stories from Spenser; and to Small, Maynard & Co. for the selection from Father Tabb. The selections from Holmes, Longfellow, Emerson, Terhune, Thoreau, Whittier, and Fiske are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of their works. CONTENTS PAGE THE PARTRIDGES' ROLL CALL. William Joseph Long. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN. "Temple". SIR WALTER RALEIGH. William Hepworth Dixon The History of the Apple TREE. Henry David Thoreau SUMMER AND WINTER. Percy Bysshe Shelley THE FIERY CROSS OF CLAN ALPINE. Walter Scott WOMEN ON AN OLD-TIME SOUTHERN PLANTATION. THE CHARGE AT SANTIAGO. William Hamilton Hayne A GALLANT GIRL. Julia Magruder and Frances Leeds INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP. Robert Browning SHAKESPEARE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. Sidney Lanier. POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM. John Henry Boner THE DEATH OF SAMSON. John Milton THE MAN FOR THE HOUR. James Barnes |