Life and Literature Book Two

CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY POEM REVEILLE - A. E. Housman THE WORK-ADAY WORLD 1. THANKSGIVING HYMN - Gerald Lindsell 2. SPRING ON THE FARM -David Grayson 3. THE PASTURE - Robert Frost 4. BURNING THE FALLOW - Susanna Moodie 5. FROM "PLOUGHMAN AT THE PLOUGH" - Louis Golding 6. THE WINNOWERS - Robert Bridges 7. THE SINGER - Hilaire Belloc 8. THE STREET MUSICIAN - Author Unknown 9. LARRY MALONE - E. S. Traymore 10. MEN AT SEA - Joseph Conrad 11. PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS - Pauline Johnson 12. THE SONG OF THE WORLD - Isabel B. Finley THE MAKER'S ART 1. THE FIRST BOW AND ARROW - Stanley Waterloo 2. THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR - Harold T. Pulsifier 3. THE SPHINX - Mark Twain 4. AMBER FROM EGYPT - Agnes Kennedy Gray 5. A PARABLE OF WHITE PAPER - William E. Barton 6. THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER - Sir Edward Parrott 7. THE PRINTING PRESS - Robert H. Davis 8. MAN-MAKING - Edwin Markham 9. VENICE IN 1786 - Johann Wolfgang Goethe 10. THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE - Oliver Wendell Holmes 11. QUALITY - John Galsworthy 12. THE ELFIN ARTIST - Alfred Noyes FASHIONED IN SONG 1. THE MAKERS - John Drinkwater 2. METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY SPEECH - Aletha Chaplin 3. CUCKOO SONG - Author Unknown 4. FAIRY SONG John Lyly 5. ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE - William Shakespeare 6. GOLD I'VE NONE - Robert Herrick 7. REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR - The Bible 8. LET US WITH GLADSOME HEART - John Milton 9. ODE ON SOLITUDE - Alexander Pope 10. A-HUNTING WE WILL GO - Henry Fielding 11. LINES FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE" - Oliver Goldsmith 12. THE WOODMAN'S DOG - William Cowper 13. "FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON" - Robert Burns 14. THE LAMB - William Blake 15. THE TIGER - William Blake 16. THE SOLITARY REAPER - William Wordsworth 17. ROSABELLE - Sir Walter Scott 18. THE QUESTION - Percy Bysshe Shelley 19. WATERLOO - Lord Byron 20. MEG MERRILIES - John Keats 21. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT - Thomas Moore 22. THE CANE-BOTTOM'D CHAIR - William Makepeace Thakeray 23. LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT - John Henry Newman 24. HERVÉ RIEL - Robert Browning 25. THE LADY OF SHALOTT - Alfred, Lord Tennyson DEEDS OF VALOUR 1. THE ROOT OF COURAGE - Hamilton W. Mabie 2. THE SHIPWRECK - Archibald MacMechan 3. THE COMBAT - Sir Walter Scott 4. FROM "LAMENT" - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 5. ICAHBOD CRANE'S RIDE - Washington Irving 6. PAUL IN A STORM AT SEA - The Bible 7. SHIPS OF OLD RENOWN - Norah Holland 8. CHASING THE LYNX - H. G. Wells 9. THE HIGHWAYMAN - Alfred Noyes 10. DOUR DAVIE'S DRIVE - Edward William Thomson 11. THE HEROINE OF RADIUM - Mary R. Parkman OVER THE WORLD AND BACK 1. WANDER-THIRST - Gerald Gould 2. LEIF THE LUCKY - Old Norse Saga 3. ELDORADO - Edgar Allan Poe 4. THE CARIBOO GOLD RUSH - Agnes C. Laut 5. THE GEYSERS - Marquis of Dufferin 6. FROZEN VOICES - Joseph Addison 7. A VIEW OF MONT BLANC - C. Hanford Henderson 8. TEES OF WHARNCLIFFE HOUSE - Laurence Hope 9. LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE BIG FOREST - J. E. Wetherell 10. THE SPEAR OF THE SEA - Frederick O'Brien 11. THE WITCH-DOCTOR - Eugene Wright 12. THE SPIRIT OF HIDDEN PLACES - Lance Fallaw 13. AMBER - Sir Frederick Treves 14. ADVENTURE IN THE LAMASERAI - Sir Henry Norman 15. THE WANDERER - W. H. Davies 16. THE LIGHTS OF HOME - Alfred Noyes STAGE CRAFT 1. THEATRE ROYAL - George Arliss 2. THE SILBER LINING - Constance D'Arcy Mackay 3. THE TRAVELLING MAN - Lady Gregory 4. CATHERINE PARR - Maurice Baring NATURE'S HANDIWORK 1. NIGHT HYMNS ON LAKE NIPIGON - Duncan Campbell Scott 2. AFTERNOON ON A HILL - Edwin St. Vincent Millay 3. THE RIVERS OF CANADA - Lawrence J. Burpee 4. A WEAVER OF SNOW - Fiona Macleod 5. A MAY MORNING - Victor Hugo 6. AH, SWEET IS TIPPERARY - Denis Aloysius McCarthy 7. THE SQUATTER - Sir Charles Roberts 8. THE GREEN LINNET - William Wordsworth 9. SOME BIRD ADVENTURES - W. H. Hudson 10. BIRDS AT EVENING - Majorie Pickthall 11. THE BOBOLINK - Duncan Campbell Scott 12. TO A WATERFOWL - William Cullen Bryant 13. CHARLES DICKENS TO MRS. FIELDS - Charles Dickens 14. THE NEW DUCKLING - Alfred Noyes 15. SHELTER - Charles Stewart Calverley 16. WILLIAM COWPER TO JOHN NEWTON - William Cowper 17. SPIDER AND THEIR WAYS - Margaret Wentworth Leighton 18. GRIM SHADOWS LIE ON THE WATER - Cherry Kearton 19. BEATEN BY EAGLES - Dallas Lore Sharp 20. CREATION - The Bible CRAFTSMEN IN POETRY FOREWORD 1. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER - Lewis Carroll 2. WEATHERS - Thomas Hardy 3. THE SHEPHERDESS - Alice Meynell 4. DRAKE'S DREAM - Sir Henry Newbolt 5. RECESSIONAL - Rudyard Kipling 6. A GREAT TIME - W. H. Davies 7. ALL THAT'S PAST - Walter De La Mare 8. DAWN - Gordon Bottomley 9. A PIPER - Seamus Sullivan 10. THE SLEEPING SEA - John Freeman 11. A CRADLE SONG - Padraic Colum 12. THE VAGABOND - Jon Drinkwater 13. THE OLD SHIPS - James Elroy Flecker 14. THE SOLDIER - Rupert Brooke THE ART OF THE STORY-TELLER 1. HOW HEREWARD PLAYED THE POTTER - Charles Kingsley 2. DOUBTING CASTLE - John Bunyan 3. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL - Baroness Orczy 4. A LUCKLESS JOURNEY - Charles Dickens 5. TOM SAWYER AND THE FENCE - Mark Twain 6. THE GIFT OF THE MAGI - O. Henry NEIGHBOURS 1. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL - James Russell Lowell 2. THE APOSTLE OF THE LEPERS - Mrs. Andrew Lang 3. WHAT IS GOOD? - John Boyle O'Reilly 4. WHERE LOVE IS, THER GOD IS ALSO - Leo Tolsoti 5. NOX MORTIS - Paul Brewster 6. PEACE AND WAR - Henry Ware 7. "YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE" - The Bible INDEX OF AUTHORS