, by Charles E. Carryl; "The Spring Beauties," from The Ride to the Lady , by Helen Avery Cone; "Praise-God Barebones," from Songs and Lyrics , by Ellen M. Hutchinson-Cortissoz; "Fable," from Poems , by Ralph Waldo Emerson; "The Owl Critic" and "Cæsar's Quiet Lunch with Cicero," from Ballads and Other Poems , by James T. Fields; "The Menagerie," from Poems , by William Vaughn Moody; "The Briefless Barrister," "Comic Miseries," "A Reflective Retrospect," "How the Money Goes," "The Coquette," "Icarus," "Teaching by Example," from Poems , by John Godfrey Saxe; "My Honey, My Love," by Joel Chandler Harris; "Banty Tim," "The Mystery of Gilgal" and "Distichs," from Poems , by John Hay; "The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One Hoss Shay," "The Height of the Ridiculous," "Evening, By a Tailor," "Lat ter Day Warnings," and "Contentment," from Poems , by Oliver Wendell Holmes; two selections from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table , by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and "Dislikes," from