Concepcion De Arguello. |Speech of Shrewsbury before Bret Harte 3| Queen Elizabeth. Schiller 26 Eulogium on South Carolina. |And then? Robert Y. Hayne 5| James Jeffrey Roche 28 The Brewing of Soma. |The Tell Tale Heart. John G. Whittier 6| Edgar Allen Poe 28 The Wee, Wee Bairnie 7|The Convict’s Hopeless Lot. Destiny. T. B. Aldrich 8| An Ex-convict 30 Without Me 8|The Star of Bethlehem. South Carolina and Massachusetts. | Henry Kirke White 31 Daniel Webster 9|Success in Life. Burglar Bill 10| James A. Garfield 31 What My Lover Said. |The Hindoo’s Search for Homer Greene 11| Truth 32 The Curse to Labor. |The Spiritualist. L. W. 33 T. V. Powderly 12|Last Charge of Ney. The New Hail Columbia. | J. T. Headley 35 Oliver Wendell Holmes 13|The Song of the Headlight. Reuben James. | Hardy Jackson 36 James Jeffrey Roche 13|One of the Signers. Reply to Mr. Webster. | John Greenleaf Whittier 37 Robert Y. Hayne 14|Apparitions. Thomas Carlyle 38 Vas Marriage a Failure? |Farewell to Nature. Charles Follen Adams 15| Thomas Gordon Hake 39 The Soul’s Farewell to the |Jim. Body. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 16| James Whitcomb Riley 40 A Woman’s Heart 16|Grant’s Strategy. The Minstrel’s Curse. | Judge Veazey 41 Ludwig Uhland 17|Just for To-day 42 Visions of Joan of Arc and |A Hero of the Tropics. Bishop of Beauvais. | I. Edgar Jones 42 De Quincey 18|Priests unto God. The Old Cornet Player. | Rose Terry Cooke 43 J. P. Bocock 20|The Mayflower. Speech of Icilius to the | Edward Everett 44 Romans. Alfieri 21|The Veiled Statue at Sais. The Watch of Boon Island. | Friedrich Schiller 45 Mrs. Celia Thaxter 21|Death of Hamilton. Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne. | Eliphalet Nott 46 Daniel Webster 23|The Soldier’s Return. To Ireland. J. B. Killen 24| Susanna Blamire 47 Christ Not a Christian. A. D. 25|Vicissitudes of 1849. The Forging of the Anchor. | Horace Greeley 47 S. Ferguson 26|Washington. Phillips 48
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A Bachelor. |One of the Multitude. By Edgar I. Brenner 31| By Margaret Veley 47 A City Incident. |“Our Times not Degenerate.” George Bancroft Griffith 20| By Chas. Emory Smith 5 A Noble Mind in a Grand |Patient Mercy Jones. Body 38| By James T. Fields 13 A Paraphrase of Seneca. |Remembrance of Wrongs. By Eugene Field 17| Rufus Choate 10 A Picture. |Royalty. Thomas S. Collier 7 By H. Antoine D’Arcy 15|The Skeleton Soldier. After Death in Arabia. | Mrs. Findley Braden 33 Sir Edwin Arnold 8|The Stones of Manhattan. An Old Temperance Poem 29| By Willis Fletcher Johnson 34 Batyushka. T. B. Aldrich 15|The Two Brothers. By B. E. E. 9 Ballad of the Bloody Brook. |The King’s Daughters 21 By Edward Everett Hale 3|The Centre of Gravity 22 Boys, Go Home 25|The Four Princes. Comfort One Another 44| Arthur G. Geoghegan 23 Crying for the Moon 35|The Poet’s Political Thoughts. Death Carol. Walt. Whitman 19| John Greenleaf Whittier 25 Evil of Duelling. |The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh. By Lyman Beecher 12| John Eliot Bowen 37 Extract from “How I Consulted |The Game of Warriors 41 the Oracle of the |The Yellow Sands of Sussex. Goldfishes.” | By Douglas Sladen 43 James Russell Lowell 10|The Face Upon the Floor. Farmer Kent’s Parson. | H. Antoine D’Arcy 16 Margaret Holmes 40|The King’s Dust. Found Dead. | Harriet Prescott Spofford 12 By Sarah T. Bolton 26|The Church and the World. Good-by Er Howdy-do? | By Mathilda C. Edwards 27 J. Whitcomb Riley 42|The Simple Man and the Wise Man. Have Patience 44| Pollok 45 If. By Anstiss W. Curtiss 46|The Moan of the Attic. Illusions. By E. A. 36| Margaret J. Preston 4 In Eulogy of Water. |To Florence Nightingale of By Emory Storrs 8| England. By John Greenleaf Moral Power of Public Opinion. | Whittier 10 Daniel Webster 20|Two. By Rose Terry Cooke 11 No National Greatness Without |Under the Daisies 32 Morality. |Waiting for the Mail. By W. E. Channing 45| By S. W. Foss 40 Nobility 48|War with Big Guns 30 Old Boys. George W. Bungay 39|“Where the Willow Makes a Our Lady of the Mine 24| Shade” 18