Part 2 (1/2)

Lane, E. W. (translator). _The Arabian Nights' Entertainments_ (2d ed., N.

Y., 1859, Macmillan, 35 cents).

London, Jack. _Before Adam_ (N. Y., 1907, Macmillan, $1.50). Prehistoric life.

Manzoni, Alessandro. _The Betrothed_ (N. Y., 1825, Macmillan, 2 vols., 70 cents). Milan under Spanish rule, 1628-1630 A.D.

Mason, Eugene (translator). _Auca.s.sin and Nicolette and other Medieval Romances, and Legends_ (N. Y., 1910, Dutton, 35 cents).

Newman, J. H. _Callista_ (N. Y., 1856, Longmans, Green, and Co., $1.25).

Persecution of Christians in North Africa, 250 A.D.

Reade, Charles. _The Cloister and the Hearth_ (N. Y., 1861, Dutton, 35 cents). Eve of the Reformation.

Scheffel, J. Von. _Ekkehard_, translated by Helena Ea.s.son (N. Y., 1857, Dutton, 35 cents). Germany in the tenth century.

Scott, (Sir) Walter. _The Talisman_ (N. Y., 1825, Dutton, 35 cents). Reign of Richard I, 1193 A.D.

------ Ivanhoe (N. Y., Heath, 50 cents). Richard I, 1194 A.D.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. _Quo Vadis?_ (Boston, 1896, Little, Brown, and Co., $2.00). Reign of Nero.

Stevenson, R. L. _The Black Arrow_ (N. Y., 1888, Scribner, $1.00). War of the Roses.

”Twain, Mark.” _A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur_ (N. Y., 1889, Harper, $1.75).

Wallace, Lew. _Ben-Hur; a Tale of the Christ_ (N. Y., 1880, Harper, $1.50).

Waterloo, Stanley. _The Story of Ab_ (2d ed., N. Y., 1905, Doubleday, Page, and Co., $1.50). Prehistoric life.

HISTORICAL POETRY

It is unnecessary to emphasize the value, as collateral reading, of historical poems and plays. To the brief list which follows should be added the material in Katharine Lee Bates and Katharine Coman, _English History told by English Poets_ (N. Y., 1902, Macmillan, 60 cents).

Browning, Robert. _Echetlos and Pheidippides._

Burns, Robert. _The Battle of Bannockburn._

Byron (Lord). _Song of Saul before His Last Battle, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Belshazzar's Feast, Prometheus,_ ”Greece” (_The Corsair_, canto iii, lines 1-54), ”Modern Greece” (_Childe Harold_, canto ii, stanzas 85-91), ”The Death of Greece” (_The Giaour_, lines 68-141), ”The Isles of Greece” (_Don Juan_, canto in), and ”The Colosseum” (_Childe Harold_, canto iv, stanzas 140-145).

Clough, A. H. _Columbus_.

Coleridge, S. T. _Kubla Khan_.

Domett, Alfred. _A Christmas Hymn_

Drayton, Michael. _The Battle of Agincourt._

Dryden, John. _Alexander's Feast._