CONTENTS 1
1．Dr Samuel Johnson By Nathaniel Hawthorne 1
2．My First Day in Philadelphia By Benjamin Franklin 15
3．God Sees the Truth,But Waits By Leo N.Tolstoy 22
4．God Sees the Truth,But Waits（continued） By Leo N．Tolstoy 33
5．A Tribute to the Dog By George Graham Vest 48
6．The Daffodils By William Wordsworth 53
7．The Selfish Giant By Oscar Wilde 57
8．The Necklace By Guy de Maupassant 69
9．The Necklace（Continued） By Guy de Maupassant 87
10．Too Dear for the Whistle By Benjamin Franklin 100
11．A Vision of War By Robert Green Ingersoll 106
12．Letter to Mrs Bixby By Abraham Lincoln 113
13．Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe 117
14．The Hand By George Wilson 121
15．The Last Lesson By Alphonse Daudet 132
16．A Handful of Clay By Henry Van Dyke 148
17．The Lady,or the Tiger? By Francis Richard Stockton 157
18．The Lady,or the Tiger?（Continued） by Francis Richard Stockton 169
19．Letter to His Son By Robert Edward Lee 185
20．Break,Break Break By Alfred Tennyson 192
21．Address to His Troops By George Washington 195
22．Address atGettysburg By Abraham Lincoln 201
23．How I Learnt to Write By Robert Louis Stevenson 207
24．A Psalm of Life By Henry Wordsworth Longfellow 221
25．Of Studies By Francis Bacon 226