1．The First Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1
2．The Humming-Bird by George Louis Leclerc Buffon 3
3．Pines By John Ruskin 6
4．Trees by Joyce Kilmer 9
5．Reading Good Books by Henry Addington Bruce 12
6．The House-Cricket by Gilbert White 15
7．On Etiquette by WilliamHazlitt 18
8．An Hour before Sunrise by Charles Dickens 21
9．The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard 24
10．The Importance of Scientific Experiments by William Stanley Jevons 27
11．Night in the Open World by Robert Louis Stevenson 30
12．Accepting the Command of the Army by George Washington 33
13．Happy Life at a Tavern by James Boswell 36
14．Who Loves His Country by Nancy Byrd Turner 39
15．Address at Gettysburg by Abraham Lincoln 41
16．Animal and Machine by David Starr Jordan and Frank Billings Kellogg 45
17．A Little Girl by Theodore Watts-Dunton 48
18．Spring by Thomas Nash 52
19 Choosing．an Occupation by Thomas Henry Huxley 55
20．A Curious Decision Anonymous 59
21．James Watt and the Teakettle by James Baldwin 62
22．A Wet Sunday in a Country Inn by Washington Irving 66
附录： 70
一、作者简介（英汉对照） 70
二、词汇表 80