Mr. Emerson began his poetical career during his college days, writing poems for the college papers. His writings will not interest you as much as some others, for his poems are not clearly expressed and are hard to understand.

Nevertheless a few are named which you doubtless will enjoy reading.

"The Mountain and the Squirrel," "The House," and "Each and All," from which you remember reading a selection in "Our Beautiful World,” about the sparrow in the woods that sang on the alder bough.

That with all others level stands;

Large charity doth never soil,

But only whiten soft, white hands.

THE HERITAGE.

Mr. Lowell is an American poet who probably ranks next to Mr. Longfellow.

He has written many things for older people, but there are a few short selections which you can understand and will enjoy reading. These are "The Heritage," "The First Snow," and "Summer."

9. ROBERT BURNS.

Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?

Let him turn and flee!

BANNOCKBURN.

This Scottish poet was regarded among the Scotch people much as Mr. Longfellow is among his fellow-countrymen, -"The Home Poet."

Burns has been loved by many before, as well as since, his death. He is greatly honored in Scotland, England, and America.

His poems are either full of fun and pleasantry, or of tears and sorrow.

One, "The Cotter's Saturday Night,” was written at his father's fireside by the flickering light of burning logs, after a day's work in the field.

The following are recommended to you as good reading: "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "Honest Poverty," and "Bannockburn."

10. CHARLES DICKENS.

The whole country was covered with forests and swamps. The greater part of it was very misty and cold. There were no roads, no bridges, no streets, no

houses that you would think deserving of the name. A town was nothing but a collection of straw-covered huts, hidden in a thick wood, with a ditch all round, and a low wall made of mud, or the trunks of trees placed one above another. The people planted little or no corn, but lived upon the flesh of their flocks and cattle. They made no coins, but used metal rings for money. They were clever in basket-work, as savage people often are; and they could make a coarse kind of cloth, and some very bad earthenware.

- HISTORY OF ENGLAND, England as the Romans found it.

An English author of whom you should know something is Charles Dickens. His writings are mostly prose, although he has written a few poems, among which is the "Ivy Green" (page 94).

The boyhood of this famous man was one of hardship, toil, and great suffering. He studied a few years in school, the rest of the time being passed in the lowest and dirtiest parts of London, working in factories. His thoughts, however, were busy preparing his mind to make the great books he wrote in his later life.

His books all portray the hardships through which he passed, his great love and pity for suffering children being ever present.

He wrote a delightful "Child's History of England," the reading of which will please and instruct

you. Quotations from this history are found in this book.

His prose writings are so numerous that it is difficult to name any special ones for you to read. Your teacher will name some selections from different books that you will enjoy reading.

In your future studies you will read much to interest you from the following-named poets, over whose names several selections appear in this reader:

JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE is an American who has written many novels and short stories for young people. You will be delighted to read "Midsummer," "The Farm-Yard Song," "Farmer John," and "The Wolves."

JAMES HOGG was an uneducated man who obtained his love of poetry from his mother who sang to him old Scotch ballads in his infant days. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH was a famous English poet who wrote many fine but long poems which sometime you will take pleasure in reading. The poem entitled "Daffodils" is especially recommended to you now.

FIGURES OF SPEECH.

Read the first stanza of "The Sea," page 19, noting especially the last line; also the fourth stanza of the same poem, page 20, noting especially the fourth line.

Read now the poem entitled "The River," page 42, noting especially the last line of each stanza.

Read next the stanza closing the lesson entitled "Pebbles," page 59, noting the last line of the stanza beginning with “as.”

Each line to which your attention has been called, is used for explaining or illustrating what has gone before it. These lines call attention to things or acts that are supposed to be similar to other things or acts spoken of. These are called similes. A simile is an expressed likeness. Find other similes in the book. With what words are similes introduced?

Read the stanza by Horace Smith at the bottom of page 121. The parts of the flower are called lips, then they are called preachers. The calyx, or cup, is called a pulpit. Every leaf is called a book. The lips are not said to be like preachers, but they are assumed to be preachers. The cup is not said to be like a pulpit; it is assumed to be a pulpit. Every leaf is not said to be like a book; but is assumed to be like a book and is asserted to be a book.