Eighth Reader. Baldwin James

Eighth Reader

Compare this poem with the one which precedes it. Compare them both with Tennyson's "Song of the Brook" ("Fifth Reader," p. 249). Which is the most musical? Which is the best simply as a description?

Make a list of the unusual words in this last poem, and refer to the dictionary for their meaning. In what state is the Chattahoochee River? "Habersham" and "Hall" are the names of two counties in the same state.

If you have access to a library, find Southey's poem, "The Cataract of Lodore," and read it aloud.

WAR AND PEACE

I. War as the Mother of Valor and Civilization 14

We still hear war extolled at times as the mother of valor and the prime agency in the world's advancement. By it, we are told, civilization has spread and nations have been created, slavery has been abolished and the American Union preserved. It is even held that without war human progress would have been impossible.

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From "The Mill on the Floss," by George Eliot.

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From "David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens.

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From "Vanity Fair," by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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"Madam, I have come to tell you good-by."

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From "The Mill on the Floss," by George Eliot.

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From "David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens.

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From "Vanity Fair," by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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"Madam, I have come to tell you good-by."

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By Robert Browning.

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From "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus," by Washington Irving.

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By Leigh Hunt, an English essayist and poet (1784-1859).

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By William Canton, an English journalist and poet (1845- ).

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By Henry W. Longfellow.

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By John Burroughs, an American writer on nature (1837- ).

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From "The Fairy Land of Nature," by Arabella B. Buckley.

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By Abram J. Ryan, an American clergyman and poet.

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By Sidney Lanier, an American musician and poet (1842-1881). From the Poems of Sidney Lanier, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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By Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American manufacturer and philanthropist (1837- ).

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By Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American manufacturer and philanthropist (1837- ).