SERIES OF READING BOOKS FOR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. EDITED BY JOHN G. CROMWELL, M.A. PRINCIPAL OF ST MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA. FOURTH BOOK. LONDON: GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET; 1874. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Editor is anxious to express his obligations to the following Authors for their kindness in allowing extracts to be made from their works for this little book :-Miss Dora Greenwell, Miss Ingelow, Miss Smedley, Miss Coleridge, Miss Yonge, Dr Acland, Mr R. Browning, Sir Arthur Helps, Canon Kingsley, Mr F. T. Palgrave, Dr Yeats, Mr S. Smiles, and the Editors of "All the Year Round.” Also to the following Publishers: - Messrs Chambers, Messrs Chapman & Hall, Messrs Cassell, Petter, & Galpin; Messrs Knight, Messrs Longman, Messrs Macmillan, Mr Murray, Messrs Nelson, and Messrs Strahan, for permission to make extracts from works published by them. 8. Good Things from Distant Places (Sara Coleridge) 9. How our Dinner-Tables have been supplied 10. The Deformed Child (Dora Greenwell) PAGE PAGE 37. Upon Westminster Bridge (W. Wordsworth) 43. A Farewell (Charles Kingsley) 44. Milton on his Blindness (John Milton) |