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Duties

Charles Lamb.

32

Dying in Harness

John Boyle O'Reilly

287

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, An Edward Bulwer Lytton

70

Escape, The

Walter Scott

112

Evil Talk

Joseph Addison

239

Eye and the Ear, The

Charles W. Eliot

261

Fairy's Song, The

William Shakespeare

171

Faithful Greyhound, The . William Wordsworth

298

Fate

Bret Harte

252

First Voyage of Sinbad the

Sailor, The.

The Arabian Nights

365

Floating .

Alexander Smith

302

Footpath, The

John Burroughs

207

Forms of Animals

Edmund Burke

314

Fortune of the Republic, The Ralph Waldo Emerson

348

Four Things

Henry van Dyke

265

Freeman's Vote, The

John Pierpont .

28

French Peasant Girl, A

William Makepeace Thackeray 280

Future of our Country, The Edward Everett

29

Gilbert Potter and his Horse Bayard Taylor

272

God in the Universe.

Alexander Pope

164

Grant and Lee at Appomattox . John B. Gordon

249

Great Truths and Great Souls James Russell Lowell

220

Greece

George Gordon Noël Byron 155

Health

Hamilton Wright Mabie

168

Highland Snowstorm, A

John Wilson

373

Home in Old Virginia, A . Thomas Nelson Page

58

Home-Thoughts from Abroad Robert Browning

61

Horatius

Thomas Babington Macaulay 143

Horatius at the Bridge

Livy
Hunting the Hippopotamus Paul du Chaillu

96

Hurricane at Sea, A

Edgar Allan Poe

223

If All the Skies .

Henry van Dyke

204

Incident of the French Camp Robert Browning

62
Indian Chief, An

William Gilmore Simms

317
Indian Singer, The

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . 20
Invocation to Mirth

John Milton

184

Joan of Arc

Thomas De Quincey

294

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357

290

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342

76

316

241

44

205

171

218

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237

238

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362

269

255

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192
320
221
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King, The .

James Whitcomb Riley
Knave and the Staff, The . Cervantes
Labor

Frances S. Osgood
Leigh Hunt at Home

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lucy Gray: or Solitude

William Wordsworth
Mercenary Fighters.

William Pitt
Mercy

William Shakespeare
Midnight Sun, The

Bayard Taylor
Mocking Bird, The

Theodore Roosevelt .
Music.

William Shakespeare

Niagara

Charles Dickens

On Conviction of High Treason Robert Emmet .

One Good Deed .

F. W. Bourdillon

Our Country

Edna Dean Proctor

Our Duties to our Country Daniel Webster
Paulette and her Gift

Émile Souvestre
Pioneers

Walt Whitman
Pliny and the Volcano

Charles Kingsley
Power of the Home, The Henry Woodfin Grady
Press On

N. P. Willis .
Printer-boy, The

George Bancroft
Prisoner of the Bastille, A Charles Dickens
Reality of Life, The .

William Ewart Gladstone
Recessional

Rudyard Kipling.
Restored Union, The

Henry Wood fin Grady

Return of Columbus to Spain,

The

William H. Prescott

Return of the Refugees, The Patrick Henry
River, The .

Paul Hamilton Hayne

Rock and the Candle, The Jean Ingelow :

Rules of Behavior

George Washington.

Salutation to Veterans

Daniel Webster

Saved from the Sea

Edwin Arnold

Seventy-six

William C'ullen Bryant

Shipwreck of Ulysses, The Homer

Shipwrecked Mariner, The Alfred Tennyson

Silas Marner and the Baby · George Eliot'

Skating in Holland

Edmondo de Amicis

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Snowstorm, The

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song of the Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier.
Spartan Three Hundred, The Herodotus
Spartans' March, The

Felicia Dorothea Hemans
State, A

Sir William Jones
Story of the Wood, The

Frank L. Stanton
Summer Day, A

Donald G. Mitchell .
Sunset in Greece

George Gordon Noël Byron
Sunset in the Mountains

William Wordsworth
Thanatopsis

William Cullen Bryant
This Country of Ours

Benjamin Harrison .
Three English Schoolboys Washington Irving
Tide of Knockwinnock Bay, The Walter Scott
To a Skylark

Percy Bysshe Shelley
To an Oriole

Edgar Fawcett
To-day

Henry Timrod
To Seneca Lake.

James Gates Percival
Turtle, The

John James Audubon
Twenty-second of February, The William Cullen Bryant
Two Little Vagrants

Victor Hugo
Uses of Books, The

Ainsworth R. Spofford
Vindication, A.

Henry Clay
Voice of the Grass, The

Sarah R. Boyle
What has America Done ? Gulian C. Verplanck
William McKinley

John Hay

Work

Thomas Carlyle

307

165

146

153

268

126

174

236

360

257

305

92

326

354

308

217

99

186

64

48

46

266

122

300

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MEMORY GEMS.

The Bible, 260.

William Cullen Bryant, 65.

Lord Byron, 152, 183.

Thomas Carlyle, 154.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 222.

Henry W. Longfellow, 138.

Edward Bulwer Lytton, 43.

Gerald Massey, 380.

Thomas Moore, 78.

George P. Morris, 104.

Alexander Pope, 206.

Walter Scott, 248.

William W. Story, 297.

Alfred Tennyson, 353.

William Wordsworth, 80.

AUTHORS.

Abbott, John S. C., 123.

Everett, Edward, 29. Addison, Joseph, 239.

Fawcett, Edgar, 308. Amicis, Edmondo de, 128. Gladstone, William Ewart, 320. Arabian Nights, The, 365. Goldsmith, Oliver, 94. Arnold, Edwin, 115.

Gordon, John B., 249. Audubon, John James, 186. Grady, Henry Woodfin, 86, 167, Bancroft, George, 139,

255. Bible, The, 260.

Harrison, Benjamin, 305. Bourdillon, F. W., 19.

Harte, Bret, 252. Boyle, Sarah R., 122.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 244. Browning, Robert, 61, 62.

Hay, John, 209. Bryant, William Cullen, 64, 65, Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 188. 247, 257.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 153. Burke, Edmund, 314.

Henry, Patrick, 340. Burroughs, Johu, 207.

Herodotus, 146. Byron, George Gordon Noël, 152, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 33. 155, 183, 236.

Homer, 229. Carlyle, Thomas, 154, 289.

Hood, Thomas, 345. Cervantes, 357.

Hugo, Victor, 48. Church, Alfred J., 211.

Hume, David, 81. Clay, Henry, 266.

Ingelow, Jean, 381. Coleridge, S. T., 319.

Irving, Washington, 89, 92. Cone, Helen Gray, 170.

Jefferson, Thomas, 38. De Quincey, Thomas, 294. Jones, Sir William, 268. Dickens, Charles, 11, 13, 171, 192. Kennedy, John Pendleton, 191. Du Chaillu, Paul, 96.

Kingsley, Charles, 269. Eliot, Charles W., 261.

Kipling, Rudyard, 221. “ Eliot, George,” 23, 352.

Lamb, Charles, 32. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 222, 307, Lanier, Sidney, 165. 348.

Lincoln, Abraham, 264. Emmet, Robert, 218.

Livius, Titus (Livy), 253, 350.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Ruskin, John, 120. 20, 138.

Scott, Walter, 112, 248, 326. Lowell, James Russell, 42, 220. Shakespeare, William, 171, 205, Lytton, Edward Bulwer, 43, 70. 316. Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 168. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 354. Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 143. Simms, William Gilmore, 317. Massey, Gerald, 380.

Smith, Alexander, 302. McKinley, William, 291.

Souvestre, Émile, 134. Miller, Hugh, 157.

Spofford, Ainsworth R., 46. Milton, John, 184.

Stanton, Frank L., 126. Mitchell, Donald G., 174.

Storrs, Richard S., 108. Moore, Thomas, 78.

Story, William W., 297. Morris, George P., 104.

Taylor, Bayard, 241, 272. Muir, John, 105.

Tennyson, Alfred, 131, 353. O'Hara, Theodore, 83.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, O'Reilly, John Boyle, 287.

280. Osgood, Frances S., 290.

Timrod, Henry, 217. Page, Thomas Nelson, 58.

Tyndall, John, 180. Parton, James, 309.

Van Dyke, Henry, 204, 265. Percival, James Gates, 99. Verplanck, Gulian C., 300. Pierpont, John, 28.

Washington, George, 55, 79. Pitt, William, 76.

Webster, Daniel, 100, 238.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 223.

Whitman, Walt, 362.
Pope, Alexander, 164, 206. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 178.
Prescott, William Hickling, 35. Willis, N. P., 119.
Proctor, Edna Dean, 237.

Wilson, John, 373.
Reid, Mayne, 66.

Wirt, William, 323. Riley, James Whitcomb, 84. Wordsworth, William, 80, 298, 342, Roosevelt, Theodore, 44.

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