SIX SELECTIONS

FROM

IRVING'S

SKETCH-BOOK CONSISTING OP

SKETCHES FROM THE LIST MADE BY THE SUPERVISORS FOR THE BOSTON HIGH SCHOOLS.

A NOTICE OF

AND

IRVING'S LIFE

TIMES,

NOTES, QUESTIONS,

ETC.

For Home and School Use.

HOMER B. SPRAGUE Ph.D.,

HEAD MASTER OF THE GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL, BOSTON, MASS, AND FORMERLY

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN

THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY.

ASSISTED BY

M. E. SCATES,

FOR MANY YEARS INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL,

BOSTON.

BOSTON:

GINN AND HEATH, PUBLISHERS,

1878.