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[Illustration: PROSPERO AND MIRANDA _The Tempest_]
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PAGE RINGROSE AND HIS BUCCANEERS 1 DAVID CROCKETT 29 DAVID CROCKETT IN THE CREEK WAR 37 AMERICA _Samuel Francis Smith_ 60 THE RETREAT OF CORTÉS _William H. Prescott_ 63 BATTLE OF IVRY _Thomas Babington Macaulay_ 76 THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE 81 MARCO BOZZARIS _Fitz-Greene Halleck_ 90 A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM _Edgar Allan Poe_ 95 PÈRE MARQUETTE _Jared Sparks_ 121 THE FALL OF THE ALAMO 141 THE ALHAMBRA _Washington Irving_ 153 HERVÉ RIEL _Robert Browning_ 168 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO _Lord Byron_ 176 HOW THEY TOOK THE GOLD-TRAIN _Charles Kingsley_ 180 A BED OF NETTLES _Grant Allen_ 209 WASHINGTON IRVING 216 THE KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY OF NEW YORK _Washington Irving_ 224 THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR _Robert Southey_ 284 CASABIANCA _Felicia Hemans_ 313 THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 315 THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT _Robert Burns_ 319 CHARLES AND MARY LAMB 328 DREAM CHILDREN: A REVERY _Charles Lamb_ 335 READING SHAKESPEARE 346 THE TEMPEST, A TALE FROM SHAKESPEARE _Charles and Mary Lamb_ 348 THE TEMPEST _William Shakespeare_ 364 STUDIES FOR _The Tempest_ 468
For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of Volume X
PAGE PROSPERO AND MIRANDA (Color Plate) _Arthur Henderson_ FRONTISPIECE WE ROWED AWAY DOWN THE RIVER _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 3 A BATTLE AT LONG RANGE COMMENCED _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 21 A CROSS WITH SEVERAL LETTERS BESIDE IT _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 25 I SAID FAREWELL TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN _R. F. Babcock_ 39 I FOUND A DEER THAT HAD JUST BEEN KILLED _R. F. Babcock_ 45 PILOTED BY FRIENDLY INDIANS (Color Plate) _R. F. Babcock_ 48 THE ATTACK ON THE FORT _R. F. Babcock_ 55 BATTLE ON THE CAUSEWAY _Louis Grell_ 69 THEY DRAGGED THEIR FEEBLE LIMBS WITH DIFFICULTY _Louis Grell_ 74 "CHARGE FOR THE GOLDEN LILIES NOW" _Louis Grell_ 79 THEIR LAST ENCOUNTER _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 89 THE TURK AWOKE _Iris Weddell White_ 92 THE GIFT OF THE CALUMET _R. F. Babcock_ 129 AT THE PORTAGE _R. F. Babcock_ 137 ON THE MISSISSIPPI (Color Plate) _R. F. Babcock_ 138 THE MEXICANS STORM THE FORT _Louis Grell_ 146 THE DEFENDERS FIRING FROM WINDOWS _Louis Grell_ 148 COLONEL BOWIE USED HIS WEAPONS TO THE LAST _Louis Grell_ 150 THE GATE OF JUSTICE _G. H. Mitchell_ 154 THE COURT OF LIONS _G. H. Mitchell_ 157 THE HALL OF ABENCERRAGES _G. H. Mitchell_ 160 THEY FOLLOW IN A FLOCK _Louis Grell_ 172 BUT HARK! _Iris Weddell White_ 177 "DO NOT SHOOT TILL I DO" _Louis Grell_ 188 SOLEMNLY HE APPROACHED, STAFF IN HAND _Louis Grell_ 197 WASHINGTON IRVING (Halftone) 216 HERE THEY REFRESHED THEMSELVES _Arthur Henderson_ 238 HE WAS INTERRUPTED BY WANDLE SCHOONHOVEN _Arthur Henderson_ 252 WILLIAM THE TESTY _Arthur Henderson_ 265 THE TESTY WILLIAM ISSUED FORTH LIKE A WRATHFUL SPIDER _Arthur Henderson_ 267 THERE CAME ON THE INTREPID PETER (Color Plate) _Arthur Henderson_ 274 "I SHALL YET HAVE TO BEAT THEM!" _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 286 AN INCESSANT FIRE WAS KEPT UP BY THE "VICTORY" _Herbert N. Hedden_ 303 HE FELL UPON HIS FACE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 305 AN OLD QUARTERMASTER HAD SEEN HIM FIRE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 309 LITTLE ELLIE SITS ALONE (Color Plate) _Arthur Henderson_ 316 TH' EXPECTANT WEE-THINGS _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 321 ROUND THE INGLE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 325 CHARLES LAMB (Halftone) 328 ROAMING ABOUT THAT HUGE MANSION _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 339 HE WOULD MOUNT A METTLESOME HORSE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 341 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Halftone) 346 FERDINAND LEAPED _Iris Weddell White_ 353 TELL YOUR PITEOUS HEART _Iris Weddell White_ 371 ANTONIO AND SEBASTIAN PLOTTING _Iris Weddell White_ 403 PRAY YOU WORK NOT SO HARD _Iris Weddell White_ 421 CERES ENTERS, AT IRIS' CALL _Iris Weddell White_ 439 STEPHANO AND TRINCULO QUARREL _Iris Weddell White_ 448 WHERE THE BEE SUCKS, THERE SUCK I _Iris Weddell White_ 455 LOOK DOWN, YOU GODS, ON THIS COUPLE _Iris Weddell White_ 461