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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
G. R. Lomer, ed. The Student’s Course in Literature.

A Graded List of Readings: II. High School

By Gerhard Richard Lomer (1882–1970)

First Year

TITLES

AUTHORS
The Order of Knighthood Grace Aguilar
Amy’s Valley of Humiliation Louisa May Alcott
The City of Brass The Arabian Nights
Sindbad the Sailor The Arabian Nights
Sir Patrick SpensBallad
Bonnie George CampbellBallad
A Children’s Party Arnold Bennett
The Father Björnstjerne Björnson
Landing the Trout Richard Doddridge Blackmore
A Dane in the Dyke Richard Doddridge Blackmore
The Story of Griselda Giovanni Boccaccio
The Love-Letters of Smith Henry Cuyler Bunner
En Route Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Isles of Greece Lord Byron
To Rome Lord Byron
The Coliseum Lord Byron
Venice Lord Byron
An Alpine Storm Lord Byron
The Ocean Lord Byron
To his Sister Lord Byron
Mazeppa’s Ride Lord Byron
The Escape from Prison Benvenuto Cellini
Of what Happened to Don Quixote when He Left the Inn Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain
An Enchanting River Scene Mark Twain
The Lightning Pilot Mark Twain
An Expedition against Ogres Mark Twain
The Albatross Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Sleep-Walking William Wilkie Collins
From ‘Lord Jim’Joseph Conrad
Running the Gauntlet James Fenimore Cooper
The Night Attack Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The Ghost in the Berth Francis Marion Crawford
Ensamples to the Flock Samuel Rutherford Crockett
In the Tropics George Cupples
Napoleon at St. Helena George Cupples
The Call of Freedom George William Curtis
Robert Browning in Florence George William Curtis
The Red-Headed League Arthur Conan Doyle
The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches Alexandre Dumas
M. Lecoq’s System Émile Gaboriau
The Rising of the Baronage against King John John Richard Green
Philip Nolan Edward Everett Hale
Mr. Samuel Slick Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Peach-Bloom Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The Mellstock ‘Waits’Thomas Hardy
The Story of the Caliph Stork Wilhelm Hauff
Jim Bludso John Hay
On Rattlesnake Ledge Oliver Wendell Holmes
Legend of the Holy Grail (Morte d’Arthur)Sir Thomas Malory
Hector Pursued by Achilles around Troy Homer
Episode of Nausicaa Homer
Ruth Thomas Hood
The Boat Race Thomas Hughes
The Chain-Gang for the Galleys Victor Hugo
High Tide on the Coast of LincolnshireJean Ingelow
The Alhambra Washington Irving
The Galley-Slave Rudyard Kipling
Vision of Sir Launfal James Russell Lowell
Horatius Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Battle of Ivry Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Paradise and the Peri Thomas Moore
The Harp that Once through Tara’s Hall Thomas Moore
Lives of Illustrious Men Plutarch
Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott
Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott
Bonny Dundee Sir Walter Scott
Spring and Winter William Shakespeare
Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
Where Is Fancy Bred?William Shakespeare
To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley
Battle of Blenheim Robert Southey
Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine Frank Richard Stockton
A Boy and his Dog Booth Tarkington
Song of the Camp Bayard Taylor
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Brook Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Wild Strawberry Henry van Dyke
Three Years She Grew William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
LifeWilliam Cranston Lawton
LightFrancis William Bourdillon
The Wants of ManJohn Quincy Adams
BinnorieAnonymous
Lord LovelAnonymous
Barbara Allen’s CrueltyAnonymous
The MermanAnonymous
The Mystery of Cro-a-tànMargaret Junkin Preston
TerritorialsAgnes S. Falconer
RainingWilfrid Wilson Gilbert
Sure, It’s FunRichard Butler Glaenzer
Belgium the Bar-lassAgnes Mary Frances Robinson
I Have a Rendezvous with DeathAlan Seeger

Second Year

On the Turks Alfonso X of Castile
Hunting in Abyssinia Sir Samuel White Baker
Franklin George Bancroft
The Cornish Wreckers Sabine Baring-Gould
Selected Paragraphs Henry Ward Beecher
At the Horse-Fair George Borrow
A Home-Coming Fredrika Bremer
Madame Beck Charlotte Brontë
Personal Characters Phillips Brooks
The Courage of Opinions Phillips Brooks
A False Step Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Work of the Roman Empire James Bryce
On Rats Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Snakes and their Poison Francis Trevelyan Buckland
The Amphitheatre Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Miss Burney’s Friends Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay)
Manners and Customs of Ancient Gaul Julius Cæsar
Freedom of the Will John Calvin
Feud Madison Cawein
The New Englander’s Character Rufus Choate
The Question Winston Churchill
The Crisis Winston Churchill
Old Friends Better than New Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honored Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death Welcome to the Old Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dream of Scipio Marcus Tullius Cicero
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time, Real and Imaginary Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Winter Walk at Noon William Cowper
History of the Plague in London Daniel Defoe
Of Joe Vance’s Father William De Morgan
Of the Great Fire William De Morgan
Old Jane in the Insane Ward William De Morgan
The Burning of Newgate Charles Dickens
Monseigneur Charles Dickens
Examples of Greek Wit and Wisdom Diogenes Laertius
The Martyrdom of Charles I.Isaac Disraeli
The Country and Its People Henry Drummond
East-African Lake Country Henry Drummond
On the Dreyfus Case Finley Peter Dunne
The Arrival at Babylon Georg Ebers
The Final Rescue George Eliot
The Village Worthies George Eliot
Friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Society Elizabeth Gaskell
Visiting Elizabeth Gaskell
Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes Théophile Gautier
The Remedy Henry George
Foundation of Constantinople Edward Gibbon
Character of Constantine Edward Gibbon
Silk Edward Gibbon
Mahomet’s Death and Character Edward Gibbon
The Alexandrian Library Edward Gibbon
The Final Ruin of Rome Edward Gibbon
The Vicar’s Family Become Ambitious Oliver Goldsmith
New Misfortunes Oliver Goldsmith
Pictures from ‘The Deserted Village’Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College Thomas Gray
The Bard Thomas Gray
The Thoughts of Macareus Eugénie and Maurice de Guérin
Hepzibah Pyncheon Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne
My First Day in the Orient Lafcadio Hearn
The Temple of Kwannon Lafcadio Hearn
The King and the Philosopher Herodotus
A Tyrant’s Fortune Herodotus
King Rhampsinitus and the Robber Herodotus
The Bridge of Sighs Thomas Hood
Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood
The March of Intellect Theodore Hook
On a Piece of Chalk Thomas Henry Huxley
Good Old Days of Knickerbocker Life Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving
A Moorish Palace Washington Irving
The Stage Coach Washington Irving
Dream Children Charles Lamb
Boarding-House Geometry Stephen Leacock
The Train for Mariposa Stephen Leacock
The Sailor’s Wife Pierre Loti
Aux Italiens E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The Difficulty of Travel in England Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
The Puritan Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
A Descent into the Maelstrom Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade
Paul and Virginia Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Catiline’s Conspiracy Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
Shadows from Child Life Olive Schreiner
New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson
Walden Henry Thoreau
The Kitchen Emile Verhaeren
London Emile Verhaeren
The Tomb of Burns William Watson
Glimpses of Napoleon III.Émile Zola
Hesperus SingsThomas Lovell Beddoes
Muckle-Mou’d MegJames Ballantine
Death the LevelerJames Shirley
The SoldierRupert Brooke
The Twa WeelumsViolet Jacob
From a Flemish GraveyardIolo Aneurin Williams

Third Year

Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play Joseph Addison
A Visit to Sir Roger de Coverley Joseph Addison
Memory Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Arthur Holds a Solemn Festival Geoffrey of Monmouth
Death of Arthur Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Synagogue Sir Walter Besant
The PelicanGuillaume le Clerc de Normandie
The PhœnixGuillaume le Clerc de Normandie
The SirenGuillaume le Clerc de Normandie
The WhaleGuillaume le Clerc de Normandie
The CrocodileGuillaume le Clerc de Normandie
The MandragoraGuillaume le Clerc de Normandie
Dr. Johnson Augustine Birrell
The Office of Literature Augustine Birrell
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love among the Ruins Robert Browning
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
Up at a Villa—Down in the City Robert Browning
Prospice Robert Browning
The Patriot Robert Browning
South-American Independence as Related to the United States Henry Clay
Good-Night, BabbetteHenry Austin Dobson
Lines Printed under Milton’s Portrait John Dryden
Roger Williams Edward Eggleston
A Bivouac at Ligny Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
Charlotte Corday Alphonse Esquiros
The Great Fire in London John Evelyn
Paul before Festus Frederic William Farrar
The Norman Council Edward Augustus Freeman
From the Chronicles Jean Froissart
Death of Thomas à Becket James Anthony Froude
Character of Henry VIII.James Anthony Froude
Americans Abroad in Europe Margaret Fuller
The Sonnet Richard Watson Gilder
America Richard Watson Gilder
On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln Richard Watson Gilder
Call Me Not Dead Richard Watson Gilder
Coney Island Maksim Gorky
The Battle of Hastings John Richard Green
England’s Growth in Commerce and Comfort under Elizabeth John Richard Green
The Last Link Ernst Haeckel
The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris Ludovic Halévy
The Middle Ages as a Period of Intellectual Darkness Henry Hallam
Trees in Art Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Lincoln’s Death and Fame John Hay and John George Nicolay
The Capture of André Richard Hildreth
The Three Professions Oliver Wendell Holmes
My Last Walk with the Schoolmistress Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Midsummer-Day’s Dream William Dean Howells
The Street-Car Strike William Dean Howells
Arrival and First Days in Venice William Dean Howells
Miss Tempy’s Watchers Sarah Orne Jewett
Song to Celia Ben Jonson
From ‘Cynthia’s Revels’Ben Jonson
The Moral Influence of Gladiatorial Shows William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The Moral and Intellectual Differences between the Sexes William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The Differing Spheres of Poetry and Painting Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The Limitations of ‘Word-Painting’Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
From the First Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln
Character of Charles II.Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Trial of Warren Hastings Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
The King is Dead Justin McCarthy
Childhood in Ancient Life John Pentland Mahaffy
Death of Jeanne d’Arc Jules Michelet
Character of Cæsar Theodor Mommsen
The Spanish Armada John Lothrop Motley
From ‘Colonel Carter of Cartersville’Francis Hopkinson Smith
From ‘My Summer in a Garden’Charles Dudley Warner
A ConquestWalter Herries Pollock
Dies IræThomas à Celano
Dies Iræ (Translation)Edward Slosson
Here: and ThereFrancis William Bourdillon
Before the Declaration of WarAmy Lowell
PatternsAmy Lowell

Fourth Year

The Battle between the Constitution and the Guerrière Henry Adams
The Character of FranklinJohn Adams
The Right of Petition John Quincy Adams
Formation of Coral Reefs Louis Agassiz
The Greatness of Friendship Grace Aguilar
On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning’s Poetry Augustine Birrell
The Historical Movement in Modern Literature Georg Brandes
From the Speech on the State of Ireland John Bright
From the Speech on the Conciliation with America Edmund Burke
On the French Revolution Edmund Burke
The Procession Thomas Carlyle
The Siege of the Bastille Thomas Carlyle
The Scapegoat Thomas Carlyle
Spiritual Freedom William Ellery Channing
Prologue to Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Of Changes in the Structure of the Earth Georges Cuvier
Of the Fabulous Animals of the Ancient Times Georges Cuvier
The Struggle for Existence Charles Darwin
Of the Nature of the Checks to Increase Charles Darwin
Of Natural Selection Charles Darwin
Origin of the Human Species Charles Darwin
The Bishop of Beauvais and Joan of Arc Thomas De Quincey
The Present Duty Paul Desjardins
The Happy Life Charles William Eliot
Bianca’s Day John Galsworthy
A Letter to the American People John Galsworthy
Comparative Worth of Different Races Francis Galton
Macaulay William Ewart Gladstone
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy Edwin Lawrence Godkin
The Indenture Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Wanderer’s Night Song Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Elfin-King Johann Wolfgang Goethe
William Pitt John Richard Green
Out of the Night that Covers Me William Ernest Henley
Oh, Time and Change William Ernest Henley
On the Return of the Refugees Patrick Henry
The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson
The Moral Influence of Slavery Thomas Jefferson
Without Benefit of Clergy Rudyard Kipling
The Largest Life Archibald Lampman
Heat Archibald Lampman
The Odyssey Andrew Lang
The Stirrup Cup Sidney Lanier
On Shakespeare John Milton
On his Blindness John Milton
Lycidas John Milton
Il Penseroso John Milton
Gloucester Moors William Vaughn Moody
Utopia Sir Thomas More
Citizenship in a Republic Theodore Roosevelt
From ‘The Turmoil’Booth Tarkington
Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray
The Rain Emile Verhaeren
Burning HayricksEmile Verhaeren
Savonarola Pasquale Villari
The Fall of Troy Virgil
The Vision of the Future Virgil
The Education of a Persian Boy Xenophon
To LucastaRichard Lovelace
To AltheaRichard Lovelace
LifeMargaret Deland
Pearl (Translation)Israel Gollancz

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