SELECT

AMERICAN CLASSICS

BEING SELECTIONS FROM IRVING'S SKETCH BOOK, WEBSTER'S ORATIONS AND EMERSON'S ESSAYS

AS PUBLISHED IN THE ECLECTIC ENGLISH CLASSICS.

Copyright, 1896, by
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.

s. A., c.-M. I.

TEN SELECTIONS

FROM

THE SKETCH-BOOK

BY

WASHINGTON IRVING

“Go, little booke, God send thee good passage,

And specially let this be thy prayere,
Unto them all that thee will read or hear,
Where thou art wrong, after their help to call,
Thee to correct in any part or all."

CHAUCER.

NEW YORK ... CINCINNATI :: CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1892, by
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.

IRY.'s SK.-BK.

EDIICATION DEPT.

Published by permission of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, the publishers of the complete and authorized editions of Irving's works.