Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics. A Series of English Texts, edited for use in Elementary and Secondary Schools, with Critical Introductions, Notes, etc. 16mo. Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley. Andersen's Fairy Tales. Cloth. Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale. Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and The Cricket on the Hearth. Dryden's Palamon and Arcite. Early American Orations, 1760-1824. Edwards' (Jonathan) Sermons. Eliot's Silas Marner. Epoch-making Papers in U. S. His tory. Franklin's Autobiography. Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair. Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne's Twice-told Tales (Selections from). Hawthorne's Wonder-Book. Homer's Odyssey. Irving's Life of Goldsmith. Irving's The Alhambra. Irving's Sketch Book. Keary's Heroes of Asgard. 25c. each. Kingsley's The Heroes. Lamb's The Essays of Elia. Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson. Milton's Comus and Other Poems. Milton's Paradise Lost, Bks. I and II. Old English Ballads. Out of the Northland. Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Plutarch's Lives (Cæsar, Brutus, and Mark Antony). Poe's Poems. Poe's Prose Tales (Selections from). Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. Scott's Lady of the Lake. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. Scott's Quentin Durward. Shakespeare's As You Like It. Shakespeare's Hamlet. Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar. Shakespeare's Macbeth. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Tennyson's The Princess. Tennyson's Shorter Poems. Woolman's Journal. Wordsworth's Shorter Poems. OTHERS TO FOLLOW. Bible English, Schections, 1905, dulkorijet THE BIBLE (AUTHORIZED VERSION) SELECTED AND EDITED BY FRED NEWTON SCOTT PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1905 All rights reserved PREFACE THIS book is neither a Bible reader, a sacred anthology, nor yet a dictionary of popular quotations, though it bears some resemblance to all three. Its place is rather with those useful collections of excerpts which in the schools are known by the cacophonous title, "Memory Gems." It is an assemblage, that is to say, of passages suitable for memorizing. In it will be found those parts of the Authorized Version which I could wish I had myself committed to memory when I was young. If it differs from similar collections, the main differences will be found to lie in the principle of selection and the method of arrangement. With respect to the first, it should be noted that the selection is made on literary, not on ethical or religious grounds. Here will be found what may be called the Bible idioms, those sentences and bits of connected discourse which have become an essential part of our literary tradition. As concerns the second point, the selections are arranged in the order of the original text. The reason for so placing them, instead of grouping them under appropriate heads or distributing them according to their difficulty, is simply that they seemed more interesting in this order than in any other. Thus arranged they show at a glance what parts and what proportions of the whole have been most congenial to the literary consciousness of the race, assuming, of course, that the collection is fairly representative. Time was when such a volume as this would have been superfluous. A few generations ago it would have competed in the V |