Chapter II: Section I: For Two Subscribers

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LITTLE CLASSIC SERIES.

A series of exquisitely printed little volumes, in flexible binding and red edges.

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This is a series of handy volumes, containing many of the choicest short Stories, Sketches and Poems in English Literature. The following list presents the contents of each volume, viz.:--

1.--EXILE.

Ethan Brand _Hawthorne_
The Swans of Lir _Gerald Griffin_
A Night in a Workhouse, _Jas. Greenwood_
The Outcasts of Poker Fiat, _Bret Harte_
The Man without a Country _Hale_
Flight of a Tartar Tribe _DeQuincey_

2.--INTELLECT.

The House and the Brain _Bulwer_
L'Outre Mort _Harriet Prescott Spofford_
The Fall of the House of Usher _Poe_
Chops, the Dwarf _Dickens_
Wakefield _Hawthorne_
Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts _DeQuincey_
The Captain's Story, _Rebecca Harding Davis_

3.--TRAGEDY.

The Murders in Rue Morgue _Poe_
The Lauson Tragedy _DeForest_
The Iron Shroud _Wm. Mudford_
The Bell Tower _Herman Melville_
The Kathayan Slave _Mrs. Judson_
The Story of La Roche, _Henry Mackenzie_
The Vision of Sudden Death _DeQuincey_

4.--LIFE.

Rab and his Friends _Dr. John Brown_
A Romance of Real Life _W. D. Howells_
The Luck of Roaring Camp _Bret Harte_
Jerry Jarvis's Wig _R. H. Barham_
Beauty and the Beast _Willis_
David Swan _Hawthorne_
Dreamthorp _Alexander Smith_
A Bachelor's Reverie _D. G. Mitchell_
The Grammar of Life _B. F. Taylor_
My Chateaux _G. W. Curtis_
Dream Children _Charles Lamb_
The Man in the Reservoir _C. F. Hoffman_
Westminster Abbey _Addison_
The Puritans _Macaulay_
Gettysburg _Abraham Lincoln_

5.--LAUGHTER.

A Christmas Carol _Dickens_
The Haunted Crust _Katherine Saunders_
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig _Lamb_
The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things _Mrs. E. A. Walker_
The Skeleton in the Closet _Hale_
Sandy Wood's Sepulchre _Hugh Miller_
A Visit to the Asylum for Decayed Punsters _Holmes_
Mr. Tibbot O'Leary the Curious, _Gerald Griffin_
Neal Malone _William Carleton_

6.--LOVE.

Love and Skates _Theodore Winthrop_
The Maid of Malines _Bulwer_
The Story of Ruth _From the Bible_
The Rise of Iskander _Disraeli_

7.--ROMANCE.

Iris _Holmes_
The Rosicrucian _Miss Mulock_
The South Breaker, _Harriet Prescott Spofford_
The Snow Storm _Christopher North_
The King of the Peak, _Allan Cunningham_

8.--MYSTERY.

The Ghost _W. D. O'Connor_
The Four-Fifteen Express, _Amelia B. Edwards_
The Signal Man _Dickens_
The Haunted Ship _Cunningham_
A Raft that no Man Made, _Robt. T. S. Lowell_
The Invisible Princess, _Francis O'Connor_
The Advocate's Wedding Day, _Catherine Crowe_
The Birthmark _Hawthorne_

9.--COMEDY.

Barney O'Reirdon, the Navigator _Lover_
Hadad-Ben-Ahab, the Traveller _John Galt_
Bluebeard's Ghost _Thackeray_
The Picnic Party _Horace Smith_
Father Tom and the Pope _Samuel Ferguson_
John Darbyshire _William Howitt_
The Gridiron _Lover_
The Box Tunnel _Reade_

10.--CHILDHOOD.

A Dog of Flanders _Ouida_
The King of the Golden River _Ruskin_
The Lady of Shalott _Miss Phelps_
Marjorie Fleming _John Brown_
Little Jakey _Mrs. S. H. DeKroyft_
The Lost Child _Henry Kingsley_
Goody Gracious! and the Forget-me-Not _John Neal_
A Faded Leaf of History, _Rebecca Harding Davis_
A Child's Dream of a Star _Dickens_

11.--HEROISM.

Little Briggs and I _Fitz-Hugh Ludlow_
Ray _Harriet Prescott Spofford_
Three November Days _B. F. Taylor_
The Forty-Seven Ronins _A. B. Mitford_
A Chance Child _Isabella Mayo_
A Leaf in the Storm _Ouida_

12.--FORTUNE.

The Gold Bug _Poe_
The Fairy Finder _Lover_
Murad the Unlucky _Maria Edgeworth_
The Children of the Public _Hale_
The Rival Dreamers _John Banim_
The Three-fold Destiny _Hawthorne_

13.--NARRATIVE POEMS.

The Deserted Village _Goldsmith_
The Ancient Mariner _Coleridge_
The Prisoner of Chillon _Byron_
Bingen on the Rhine _Mrs. Norton_
O'Connor's Child _Campbell_
Kilmeny _Hogg_
The Dream of Eugene Aram _Hood_
Lady Barbara _Alexander Smith_
The Sensitive Plant _Shelley_
The Eve of St. Agnes _Keats_
Paradise and the Peri _Moore_
The Raven _Poe_
The Skeleton in Armor _Longfellow_
The Haunted House _Hood_
The Writing on the Image _Morris_
Tam O'Shanter _Burns_
The Forging of the Anchor _Samuel Ferguson_
Morte D'Arthur _Tennyson_
Horatius _Macaulay_

14.--LYRICAL POEMS.

Locksley Hall _Tennyson_
My Lost Youth _Longfellow_
Intimations of Immortality _Wordsworth_
Ode to Happiness _Lowell_
L'Allegro and Il Penseroso _Milton_
Elegy in a Country Churchyard _Gray_
The Bridge of Sighs _Hood_
The Problem _Emerson_
The Passions _Collins_
The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee _Scott_
At Port Royal _Whittier_
How they brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix _Browning_
Ode on the Duke of Wellington _Tennyson_
Commemoration Ode _Lowell_
And many other Poems.

15.--MINOR POEMS.

The Chambered Nautilus _Holmes_
The Children's Hour _Longfellow_
The Courtin' _Lowell_
Evelyn Hope _Browning_
Highland Mary _Burns_
Kubla Khan _Coleridge_
My Child _Pierpont_
My Psalm _Whittier_
Oh? Why should the Spirit of Mortal
be Proud? (President Lincoln's
favourite Poem.)
She was a Phantom of Delight _Wordsworth_
Thanatopsis _Bryant_
The Three Fishers _Kingsley_
Toujours Amour _Stedman_
A Woman's Question _Adelaide Anne Proctor_
Bugle Song _Tennyson_
The Age of Wisdom _Thackeray_
I Remember, I Remember _Hood_
The Ivy Green _Dickens_
A Lament _Shelley_
Maid of Athens _Byron_
Night and Death _Blanco White_
The Old Man's Idyl _Richard Realf_
A Petition to Time _Barry Cornwall_
The Skylark _James Hogg_
Philip, My King _Miss Mulock_
Tom Bowling _Dibdin_
Virtue _George Herbert_
And numerous other poems.

16.--AUTHORS.

Containing Brief Biographies of all the Authors from whose writings the fifteen preceding volumes of "Little Classics" have been taken. With complete Index.

Sixteen volumes. 32mo. Tastefully bound. Price, per volume, $1.00

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