He comes again; but-if he come no more

Oh me, be yon dark queens in yon black boat,

Who shrieked and wailed, the three whereat we gazed On that high day, when, clothed with living light, They stood before his throne in silence, friends

Of Arthur, who should help him at his need?"

Then from the dawn it seemed there came, but faint As from beyond the limit of the world,

Like the last echo born of a great cry,

Sounds, as if some fair city were one voice

Around a king returning from his wars.

Thereat once more he moved about, and clomb
Even to the highest he could climb, and saw
Straining his eyes beneath an arch of hand,
Or thought he saw, the speck that bare the king,
Down that long water opening on the deep
Somewhere far off, pass on and on, and go
From less to less and vanish into light.
And the new sun rose, bringing the new year.

SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS

REPRESENTED IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH BOOKS OF THIS SERIES OF READERS.

The numerical references are to the number and the page of the Reader where the Selection will be found. Verse is indicated by Italics.

Addison, Joseph: The Twenty-third Psalm, iii. 132; Frozen Voices, iii. 198; Ned Softly the Poet, iv. 132.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey: A Student of the Olden Time, iii. 143.

Alexander, Professor J. Addison: Monosyllabic Sonnet-The Power of Short Words, v. 39.

Alford, Dean: Night Scene, iii. 182.

Allingham, William: Autumnal Sonnet, v. 323.

Andersen, Hans Christian: The Snow Man, iii. 206; The Dying Child, iv. 198.

Archer, Andrew: The Heights of Abraham, iii. 139.

Arnold, Edwin: To Florence Nightingale, iv. 196; Landscapes from the Light of Asia," v. 393.

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Arnold, Matthew: Lines from A Southern Night, iii. 233; Revolution, iii. 260; The Last Word, iv. 143; On the Death of Dean Stanley, v. 35; Readings in Wordsworth, v. 36; Balder's Funeral Ship, v. 261; Empedocles on Etna, v. 454; Critical Estimate of Matthew Arnold's Poetry (R. H. Hutton), v. 139.

"Athenæum:" Criticisms on Dryden's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, v. 164; On Coleridge's Ode on France, v. 172; Notes on the Electrical Exhibition at Paris, 1881, v. 313.

Azarias, Brother: The Continental Homestead, v. 168.

Bain, Professor Alexander, LL.D.: The Style of John Stuart Mill, v. 54.
Begg, Alexander: The Last Days of "The Company," v. 368.

Björnson, Björnstjerne: The Tree, iii. 153.

Blackie, Professor John Stuart: Bill's a Bright Boy, iv. 76; From the " Agamemnon" of Eschylus, v. 193.

Blake, William: The Tiger, iv. 309.

Bourinot, J. G.: Canada on the Sea, iv. 264.

Brassey, Lady: Hawaiian Sports (from "The Voyage in the Sunbeam "), iii. 36.

Bright, John: Passages from the Speeches of, v. 448.

Brown, Hon. George: The Emancipation Proclamation, iv. 211.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Victoria's Tears, iii. 222; Cry of the Children, iv. 97; He Giveth His Beloved Sleep, iv. 234; Sonnet from the Portuguese, v. 334; At Cowper's Grave, v. 391.

Browning, Robert: Home Thoughts from Abroad, iii. 135; Apostrophe to his Deceased Wife (from "The Ring and the Book"), v. 226; Fame, v. 227. Bryant, W. C.: Death of the Flowers, iii. 191; Hunter of the Prairies, iv. 63; Thanatopsis, iv. 199; The Prairies, v. 127.

Bryce, Rev. Principal, M.A., LL.B.: Manitoba Then and Now, iii. 144; From
Kildonan to Kildonan, v. 131.

Buchanan, Robert: From The Idylls of Inverburn, iv. 15; Dying, iv. 122;
Critical Estimate of the Idylls of Inverburn (G. Barnett Smith), v. 145;
Motion of the Mists, v. 148; The Weaver's Flowers, v. 276.
Burnaby, Lieut.-Col. Fred.: A Camel in Love, iii. 146.

Burns, Robert: Flow Gently, Sweet Afton, iii. 69; Pleasures, iii. 103; Winter, iv. 220; Sing on, Sweet Thrush, v. 22; The Trout in Yonder Wimpling Burn, v. 215; Poetical Epistles, with Critical Estimate, John Wilson ("Christopher North "), v. 295; The Songs of Burns, Critical Estimate, by Principal Shairp, v. 328.

Burton, J. Hill: The Battle of Killiecrankie, iv. 296.

Butler, Lieut.-Col. W. F.: Spring-Time in Canada, iii. 10; Sketches in the North-West, iv. 53; A Dog Train, v. 365; Fort Chipewyan, v. 366. Byron, Lord: Heroism, iv. 143; Venice, iv. 155; A Battle-field, iv. 166; The Coliseum (from Childe Harold), v. 64; Manfred's Soliloquy, v. 66; Greece, v. 231; Lake of Geneva (from Childe Harold), v. 266; Sonnet on Chillon, v. 321; Critical Estimate of Lord Byron's Poetry, by Professor John Nichol, v. 263.

"Caballero, Fernan:" The Cock and the Goose, iii. 15.

Campbell, Robert: Discovery of the Pelly (Yukon) River, v. 435.

Campbell, Thomas: Ye Mariners of England, iii. 168; The Soldier's Dream, iv. 117.

Carleton, Will: Autumn Days, v. 415.

Carlyle, Thomas: Dismissal of the Rump, iv. 302; Napoleon, v. 170; Trial and Execution of Marie Antoinette, v. 420.

Castelar, Emilio: A Reverie in the Coliseum, v. 58.

Cesnola, General L. P. Di: Discoveries in Cyprus, v. 359.

Chalmers, Thomas, D.D.: Cruelty to Animals, iv. 92.

Chapman, George: Translation from Homer's "Odyssey," v. 194.

Chatterton, Thomas: Almighty Framer of the Skies, v. 208; Resignation, v. 209.

Cheadle, Dr.: The Wolverine, v. 363.

Clare, John: The Sedgebird's Nest, iv. 131.

Clemens, S. L. (“Mark Twain "): The Cayote (Prairie Wolf), iv. 68.

Clough, A. H.: 0 Stream Descending, iv. 86; Whither the Wind their Course Directs, v. 201; In a Gondola, v. 202.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Answer to a Child's Question, iii. 18; Child's
Evening Hymn, iii. 68; The Ode on France (Athenaeum's Criticisms), v.
172; Kubla Khan, v. 182; Hymn Before Sunrise, v. 252; Studies from
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, by Mrs. Oliphant, v. 349; Coleridge's
Study of Shakspeare's Richard II., v. 377.

Colvin, Sidney: The "Pentam'ĕron" of Walter Savage Landor, v. 458.
Cook, Eliza: The Old Farm Gate, iii. 53.

Cowper, William: Lines from "John Gilpin," iii. 147; Sonnet: To Mary Unwin, v. 188; Cowper Contrasted with Thomson and with Pope (Professor Goldwin Smith), v. 387.

Craik, Mrs. (Miss Mulock): Grandpapa, iii. 39.

Cunningham, Allan: A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, iii. 123.

Darwin, Charles: The Work and Habits of Earthworms, v. 323; Discoveries of Charles Darwin (Sir John Lubbock's Review), v. 98.

Dawson, Principal, F.R.S.: Tide-wave in the Bay of Fundy, v. 241.

Dent, J. C.: Lord Sydenham, iv. 262.

De Quincey, Thomas: Joan of Arc, v. 308; Three Ladies of Sorrow, with Professor Masson's Critical Estimate, v. 424.

Dewart, Rev. E. Hartley, D.D.: The Voices of Past Years, iii. 90.
Dibdin, Charles: Tom Bowling, iv. 45.

Dickens, Charles: The Ivy Green, iii. 60; The Last Old English King, iii. 82; Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, iii. 223; Tommy Traddles (from "David Copperfield "), iv. 71; Farmed Out (from "Oliver Twist "), iv. 94; Harold Skimpole (from "Bleak House"), iv. 175; Pickwick Club on the Ice, iv. 320; Pickwick's Speech at the Club, v. 287; Dean Stanley on Charles Dickens, iv. 96.

Dobell, Sydney: Tommy's Dead, iv. 152.

Dowden, Edward, LL.D.: How Southey Worked, v. 184; Study of George Eliot, v. 325.

Doyle, Sir Francis H.: Red Thread of Honor, iv. 205.

Dryden, John: Veni Creator, iv. 335; On Dryden's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (Athenæum), iv. 164; Studies from Dryden's Principal Works (George Saintsbury), v. 335.

Du Chaillu, Paul: Scandinavia, iv. 218; Agricultural Schools of Sweden, v. 161.

Dufferin, Countess of: The Irish Emigrant, iii. 86.

Dufferin, Earl of: Canada's Heritage, iii. 236.

Dunraven, Earl of: Moose-Hunting in Canada, iii. 188.

Edwards, Miss A. Betham: The Ancient Kings of Egypt, v. 45.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The Apology, iii. 46; The Snow-storm, iv. 312; To the Humble Bee, v. 159; The Rhodora, v. 161.

Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.): Beaver Colony, iv. 78; Livingstone's Death and Character, iv. 247.

Forster, John: Sentence of Charles I., iv. 289.

Franklin, Capt. (Sir) John: On the Frozen Ocean, iv. 227; Lacrosse Among the Crees (1820), v. 125.

Freeman, E. A.: The Harrying of the North, v. 173; Critical Estimate of Macaulay's Style, v. 400.

Froude, James Anthony: Mary Stuart's Return to Scotland, v. 143.

Gairdner, James: End of the War of the Roses, v. 315.

Galt, John: Founding of Galt, Guelph, and Goderich, iv. 32.

Gardiner, S. R.: Death of Raleigh, v. 249.

Gibbon, Edward: Extract from the "Decline and Fall," with Critical Estimate by J. C. Morrison, v. 254.

Gibson, W. Hamilton: Traps and Trapping, iv. 123; Camping Out, iv. 185. Gilder, W. H.: Schwatka's Search, iv. 231.

Goldsmith, Oliver: Moses at the Fair (from the "Vicar of Wakefield ") iii. 158; The Good-Natured Man, Extracts with Critical Estimate, by W. Black, v. 301; Thackeray's Estimate, with Extract from The Deserted Village, iv. 135.

Goodale, Dora Read: The Autumn Forest, iii. 193.

Gosse, E. W.: Antiphonic Sonnet, v. 97.

Gough, J. B.: The Rapids, iii. 149; Water, iv. 172.

Grant, Rev. Principal, D.D.: Shooting Rapids, iii. 79; British Columbia, iv. 237; At the Head of Lake Superior, v. 374.

Gray, Thomas: Stanzas from "Elegy," iv. 287.

Green, Richard John: The Making of England, v. 165.

Grote, George: The Death of Perikles, v. 233.

Gustaffson, Richard: The Unknown Paradise, iii. 62; A Night in a Church Spire, iii. 250.

Haliburton, J. C.: How Many Fins has a Cod? iv. 268.

Hall, Francis: Tecumseh, iv. 142.

Hargrave, J. J.: The Winter Mail, v. 367.

Harris, W. S.: The Pitcher Plant, iii. 124.

Harte, F. Bret: The Coyote, iv. 70; The Réveillé, iv. 212; Dickens in Camp, v. 290.

Havergal, Miss: "That's not the Way at Sea!" iii. 42.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Rill from the Town Pump, iii. 104.

Hazlitt, William: The Four Greatest English Poets, iv. 108.

Hearne, Samuel: An Audible Aurora, v. 123; Dying Swans, v. 124.

Heavysege, Charles: Sonnet, Canadian Winter Night, iii. 205; The Dark

Huntsman, iv. 126; Scene from Saul, v. 213.

Helps, Sir Arthur: Capture of Montezuma, v. 87.
Hemans, Mrs.: The Homes of England, iii. 98.
Herrick, Robert: Gather Ye Rosebuds, iii. 59.

Herschel, Sir John F.: The Great Earthquake, iv. 145.
Higginson, T. W.: The Mound Builders, iv. 242.

Hirst, Henry B.: The Owl, iii. 181.

Hogg, James: The Skylark, iv. 52.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D.: The Old Man's Dream, iii. 199; Spring, iv. 31; Rudolph, iv. 283.

Hood, Thomas: To a Child Embracing his Mother, iii. 97.

Houghton, Lord (Richard Monckton Milnes): The Men of Old, iii. 81; The Long Ago, iv. 234.

Howe, Hon. Joseph: Canada, its Scenery and Majestic Proportions, iv. 20; Centenary of Halifax, iv. 181; Our Fathers, v. 107.

Howitt, Mrs. Mary: The Sparrow's Nest, iii. 20; The Kingfisher, iii. 47; Quails, iii. 112; Cry of the Suffering Creatures, iv. 91.

Hugessen, F. H. Knatchbull (Lord Brabourne): The Barn Elves, iii. 108. Hunt, Leigh: The Grasshopper and the Cricket, iii. 136; Sonnet on the Nile, v. 43.

Hutton, R. H.: Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, iv. 292; Study of Matthew Arnold's Poetry, v. 139; Studies in The Lady of the Lake and Marmion, v. 219.

Huxley, T. H.: Physiology of the Crayfish, v. 103.

Ingelow, Jean: Minnows with Silver Tails, iii. 56; The Child and the Boatman, iii. 163.

Irving, Washington: The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, iii. 93; Old Fur-Trading Nabobs, iv. 81; The Alhambra, v. 81.

Jameson, Anna: Reverie near St. Thomas, iv. 183.

Johnson, Samuel: The Happy Valley, iii. 133; A Study in "Johnsonese" (Leslie Stephen), v. 297.

Johnston, Rev. Hugh, M.A.: Geysers of California, iii. 186.

Kane, E. K.: A Walrus Hunt, iv. 221.

Keats, John: Meg Merrilies, iii. 145; Sonnet, iv. 128; Influence of Beauty, iv. 252; Sunrise in the Latmian Forest, v. 13; Sonnet on the Nile, v. 43; On Looking into Chapman's "Homer,' v. 195; The Growth of Keats's Style (Professor Masson), v. 196; Ode to Autumn, v. 417.

Keltie, J. S. (in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed.): Livingstone's Death and Character, iv. 247.

Kemble, Mrs. Fanny: Sonnet-Weary, v. 96.

Kinglake, A. W.: Journey Across the Desert, iii. 227; The Turning Point of the Alma, v. 444.

Kingsley, Rev. Charles: The Three Fishers, iii. 18; Zeal-for-Truth Thoresby, iv. 279; How Coal is Made, v. 244.