SERIES OF READING BOOKS FOR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. EDITED BY JOHN G. CROMWELL, M.A. PRINCIPAL OF ST MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA. THIRD BOOK, LONDON: GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET; ADVERTISEMENT. THE Editor is anxious to express his obligations to the following authors for their kindness in allowing him to make extracts from their works for the readers of this little book :-Mrs Ewing, Miss Dora Greenwell, Miss Ingelow, Mr F. T. Palgrave, Mr S. Smiles, Dr Yeats; to Miss Coleridge, for extract from "Pretty Lessons for Good Children," by Sarah Coleridge; and to the following publishers:-Messrs Longman, for extracts from Sir E. Tennent's "Ceylon;" Messrs Sampson Low & Co., for an extract from M. Audubon's works; Messrs Strahan & Co., for extracts from Mr Tennyson's and Miss Ingelow's works; Messrs Chambers, for an extract from Mary Howitt's poems; Messrs Dalziell, for extracts from poems of Miss Greenwell, Miss Mulock, Otto Speckter, and L. W. T.; Messrs Murray, for an extract from Ford's "Spain; " Messrs Routledge, for extracts from "Waterton's Wanderings; "Messrs Macmillan, for extracts from Miss C. Rossetti, Canon Kingsley, Mr Freeman. CONTENTS. 1. Little Hands may give Great Help 2. Little Hands may give Great Help-continued 3. The Moss Rose (from the German) 4. The Taking of Linlithgow Castle (Sir W. Scott). 5. Children's Lament for Baby (F. T. Palgrave) 6. The Taking of Roxburgh Castle (Sir W. Scott) 22. The Dog and the Avalanche (from the German) 23. That Children should be Gentle (F. T. Palgrave) |