Twenty-two, Twenty-three, and Twenty-four

of

SHOEMAKER'S BEST SELECTIONS

Philadelphia

The Penn Publishing Company

COPYRIGHT 1896 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

..... ............... XXIII.

74

Baby of the Future, The............

Ballad of Beau Brocade, The...............Austin Dobson.............. XXIV. 74

Battle of Bannockburn, The....

Battle of Zaraila....

Bells of Brookline, The....

Benefits of the Constitution.

Big Enough Family, A...... ...

Black Zeph's Pard.

Busy..

XXIV. 131

XXIV. 11

...Andrew Downing......... XXIII. 163

XXII. 126

XXIV. 100

................................................................................Edmund J. Burke........ XXIII. 30

By the Alma........... ............................James Dawson................ XXII. 7

EXPLANATION.-" BEST THINGS FROM BEST AUTHORS," Volume VIII,
being composed of Numbers Twenty-two, Twenty-three, and Twenty-
four of Shoemaker's BEST SELECTIONS FOR READINGS AND RECITATIONS,
it is necessary to indicate the number as well as the page, each number
being paged independently of the others.

Death of Carver Doone........................R. D. Blackmore........... XXIV. 148

Dot Dutchman in der Moon................. E. Carson Thorpe.. .................... XXII. 173

Drunkard's Death, The........

Earl Sigurd's Christmas Eve..

Easter Eve at Kērak-Moab..

Easter with Parepa, An................................

Edelweiss.........

Elocution Lesson, The....

Empty Prayer, An..........

Execution of Andre..

Charles Dickens............ XXIV. 30

..Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, XXIII. 145

Clinton Scollard............ XXIII. 64

Myra A. Delano ............ XXII. 183

Mary Lowe Dickinson... XXIII. 153

Frances Nash.............. XXIII. 172

Katharine O. Penfield ...XXIV. 52

Henry Peterson......... ....XXIII. 103

Alexander Dumas......... XXIV. 110

Charles Dickens...........XXIII.
Mary H. Field..

Executior of Lady De Winter, The......

Execution of Sydney Carton..

Ezra and Me and the Boards..

Fall In.............

Fate of Sir John Franklin, The.......

Fenelon's Prayer.........

Flowers.......

Fool's Prayer, The..

Foreign Views of the Statue...

Foreshadowings......

Forging of the Anchor, The.........

For the Slumber Islands, Ho!..........

Getting the Right Start...

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49
......... XXIV. 160

Kate Brownlee SherwoodXXII. 142
43
Virginia B. Harrison... XXIII. 34
H. W. Longfellow......
......... XXII. 158

Edward Rowland Hill... XXIII. 12

Fred Emerson Brooks.... XXIV. 180

Julia C. R. Dorr.......... XXIII. 183

Samuel Ferguson.......... XXIV. 178
.XXIV. 108

.XXIV. 5
..XXII. 124
73

Gifts of Age, The,...................................
Glory of Nature, The..........
Timothy Dwight........... XXIII.

God Save Our Native Land..................Julius H. Seelye............ XXIII. 135

Gowk's Errant and What Cam O't, A.........

XXII. 34

Hagar........

Hard Lines......

Eliza Poitevent Nicholson. XXII. 178

XXIII. 158

Harvard-Yale Foot-Ball Match, A...... Waldron Kintzling Pos!..XXIII. 177

Home of the Soul........

How Hezekiah Stole the Spoons..

Philip Phillips

NUMBER PAGE

XXII. 6

... XXII. 119

62

.............. XXIII. 188

123

How the La Rue Stakes Were Lost...... Charles Newton Hood..... XXIV.
Will Carleton
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How We Kept the Day....
Hunt, The.......

Incident of the French Camp, An.......Robert Browning...........XXIV. 202
Influence of Great Actions, The..........Daniel Webster......

Jimmy Brown's Attempt to Produce
Freckles

Joan of Arc's Farewell...............

Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler..

John Brown's Body....

XXIII. 161

.XXIII. 185
.XXII. 128

....James Hogg............... XXII. 190

....J. D. Sherman.............. XXIV. 200

36

Lament of the Irish Emigrant, The..... Lady Dufferin,........XXIV.

Land of Nod, The...........

Ella Wheeler Wilcox........ XXII. 100

Last Straw, The....................................................................... XXIV. 109

Leap Year Mishaps.........

Literary Nightmare, A........................Mark Twain... XXIII. 112

Little Bill...

Little Black Phil.

Little Feller, A...

Lost Puppy, The...

.......XXIV. 186

95

Love Scene, A.

Lyric of Action................ ............... Paul Hamilton Hayne.....XXII. 156

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Maiden Husking Corn, The.................J. H. Blow.............. XXIII. 138

Maiden to the Moon, The....... ............John G. Saxe................ XXIII. 28

Mammy Gets the Boy to Sleep... ..........Gertrude Manly Jones... XXIV. 157

Marguerite......

.Evelyn Noble Schroeder... XXII. 59

Marseillaise, The..

........... XXIV.

.Rev. Wm. R. Alger..........XXII.

Masque and the Reality, The..

Meeting of Evangeline and Gabriel,

The......

Memory Bridges, The................

Miss Eva's Visit to the Ogre...

Morning Bird, The........

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39

66

58

H. W. Longfellow...... .XXII. 145

...Julie M. Lippmann.........XXII.

....Theodora C. Elmslie. XXIV. 40

XXIV. 87

XXII. 88

XXII. 62

Mr. Kris Kringle................................. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell..

My Double and How He Undid Me..... Edward Everett Hale... XXII. 138