HOUSEHOLD FRIENDS

FOR EVERY SEASON

"The pleasant books, that silently among

Our household treasures take familiar places,
And are to us as if a living tongue

Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces !"

LONGFELLOW.

CONTENTS.

ALFRED TENNYSON: The Hesperides

THOMAS HUGHES: The Ashen Fagot
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Contentment

ANNA THACKERAY: Little Scholars

JEAN PAUL: The Happy Life of a Parish Priest

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: To the Moon
LORD JEFFREY: Character of Watt

196

198

CHARLES LAMB: An Essay on Roast Pig

203

D. A. WASSON: All's Well.

212

CHARLES DICKENS: Carlavero's Bottle

215

MRS. H. B. STOWE: When I awake, I am still with thee

227