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5. Explain the following: Consistory; hulling; silver pillars; sennet; exhalation; salutes; emballing; præmunire; collars of SS; Cinque ports; suggestion; incensed; primero: a tribulation of Tower Hill; in Limbo Patrum.

6. Give the etymology of inkling; attainder; bevy; an (= if), reek, gossip, and ween.

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No. 1 Byron's Prophecy of Dante. (Cantos I. and II.)

66 2 Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.

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8 Lord Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral. (Selected.)

4 Byron's Prisoner of Chillon.

5 Moore's Fire-Worshippers. (Lalla Rookh. Selected from Parts L

and II.)

6 Goldsmith's Deserted Village.

7 Scott's Marmion. (Selections from Canto VI.)

8 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Introduction and C&ato I.)

66 9 Burns' Cotter's Saturday Night, and Other Poems.

"10 Crabbe's The Village.

"11 Campbell's Fleasures of Hope. (Abridgment of Part I.;

"12 Macaulay's Essay on Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

"18 Macaulay's Armada and other Poems.

"4 Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. (Selections from Acts L.

and IV.)

"15 Goldsmith's Traveller.

"16 Hogg's Queen's Wake.

"17 Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

"18 Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley.

"19 Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard.

"20 Scott's Lady of the Lake. (Canto I.)

"21 Shakespeare's As You Like It, etc. (Selections.)

"22 Shakespeare's King John and King Richard II. (Selections.) "28 Shakespeare's King Henry IV., King Henry V., King Henry

VI. (Selections.)

24 Shakespeare's Henry VIII., and Julius Caesar. (Selections

(CONTINUED.)

No. 25 Wordsworth's Excursion. (Book L.)

"26 Pope's Essay on Criticism.

"27 Spenser's Faerie Queene. (Cantos I. and II.)

❝ 28 Cowper's Task. (Book 1.)

4429 Milton's Comus.

"80 Tennyson's Enoch Arden, The Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, and

Tithonus.

81 Irving's Sketch Book. (Selections.)

82 Dickens' Christmas Carol. (Condensed.)

688 Carlyle's Hero as a Prophet.

66 84 Macaulay's Warren Hastings. (Condensed.)

485 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. (Condensed.)

"86 Tennyson's The Two Voices, and A Dream of Fair Women $6 87 Memory Quotations.

44 88 Cavalier Poets.

"89 Dryden's Alexander's Feast, and MacFlecknoe. "40 Keats' The Eve of St. Agnes.

"41 Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

"42 Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.

"48 Le Row's How to Teach Reading.

"44 Webster's Bunker Hill Orations.

"45 The Academy Orthoëpist. A Manual of Pronunciation. "46 Milton's Lycidas, and Hymn on the Nativity.

"47 Bryant's Thanatopsis, and Other Poems.

❝ 48 Ruskin's Modern Painters. (Selections.)

"49 The Shakespeare Speaker.

"50 Thackeray's Roundabout Papers.

451 Webster's Oration on Adams and Jefferson.

❝ 52 Brown's Rab and His Friends.

66 58 Morris's Life and Death of Jason.

"54 Burke's Speech on American Taxation. "55 Pope's Rape of the Lock.

❝56 Tennyson's Elaine.

57 Tennyson's In Memoriam.

6 58 Church's Story of the Æneid.

659 Church's Story of the Iliad.

80 Swift's Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput.

* 61 Macaulay's Essay on Lord Bacon. (Condensed.)

62 The Alcestis of Euripides. English Version by Rev. R. Potter, M.A. 68 The Antigone of Sophocles. English Version by Thomas Francklin, D.D.

64 Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Selected Poems.)

64 65 Robert Browning. (Selected Poems.)

44 66 Addison's The Spectator. (Selections.)
67 Scenes from George Eliot's Adam Bede.
68 Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy.
Continued on last page.

No. 69 DeQuincey's Joan of Arc.

"70 Carlyle's Essay on Burns.

"71 Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. (Cantos I. and II.)
72 Poe's Raven, and other Poems.

"78-74 Macaulay's Lord Clive. (Double Number.)

❝ 75 Webster's Reply to Hayne.

676-77 Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. (Double Number.)
"78 American Patriotic Selections: Declaration of Independenc
Washington's Farewell Address, Lincoln's Gettysbur
Speech, etc.

"79-80 Scott's Lady of the Lake. (Double Number.)
"81-82 Scott's Marmion. (Double Number.)

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"88-84 Pope's Essay on Man. (Double Number.)
"85 Shelley's Skylark, Adonais, and other Poems.
64 86 Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth. (In preparation.)
87 Spencer's Philosophy of Style.

488 Lamb's Essays of Elia. (In preparation.)
"89 Cowper's Task. (Book II.) See No. 28.

90 Wordsworth's Selected Poems.

91 Tennyson's The Holy Grail, and Sir Galahad.

92 Addison's Cato.

98 Irving's Westminster Abbey, and Christmas Sketches,
"94-95 Macaulay's Earl of Chatham. Second Essay.
"96 Early English Ballads.

"97 Skelton, Wyatt, and Surrey. (Selected Poems.)
66 98 Edwin Arnold. (Selected Poems).

99 Caxton and Daniel. (Selections.)
"100 Fuller and Hooker. (Selections.)
"101 Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.
"102-108 Macaulay's Essay on Milton.

❝ 104-105 Macaulay's Essay on Addison. (In preparation.)
"106 Macaulay's Essay on Boswell's Johnson.

❝ 107 Mandeville's Travels and Wycliffe's Bible. (Selections)
108-109 Macaulay's Essay on Frederick the Great. (In prep.
66 110-111 Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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112-113-114 Franklin's Autobiography.

115-116 Heredotus' Stories of Croesus, Cyrus, and Babylon.
"117 Irving's Alhambra.

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118 Burke's Present Discontents.

119 Burke's Conciliation.

66 120 Macaulay's Byron.

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