HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF COPYRIGHT, 1978, 1879, COPYRIGHT, 1902. CONTENTS. PAGE 9 13 15 17 18 21 28 34 36 38 41 42 1. The House of Usher. . Edgar A. Poe. .Edgar A. Poe. ..... Mark Bailey. William Shakespeare. . Sir Walter Scott. ...George Herbert. .George Washington. .James Beattie. .James Beattie. Daniel Webster. Laurence Sterne. Mark Bailey. .Charles Dickens. Oliver Goldsmith. .S. H. Peabody. .Charles Dickens. Caroline A. B. Southey. Psalms XXIV. and XC. . Mark. Bailey. . George Herbert. 44 48 54 56 58 62 64 66 68 71 74 XXVII. The Coyote... .S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain). 80 XXVIII. For a' that, and a' that. XXIX. How to render Joyous Ideas...... ..Mark Bailey. 84 XXX. Mignon's Song . Goethe ( Thomas Carlyle's translation). 87 XXXI. The Thirteen Colonies... XXXII. The Vanity of Human Pride. XXXIV. What constitutes a State ? ...Sir William Jones. 98 XXXV. The Effect of Paul's Preaching at Ephesus. XXXVII. How to render Sad Ideas.. XXXVIII. The Pauper's Deathbed... ...... Caroline A. B. Southey. 107 XXXIX. Mrs. Caudle urging the Need of Spring Clothing. XL. Under the Greenwood Tree ....William Shakespeare. 113 XLI. Mexico as first seen by the Spaniards. XLVII. Dr. Primrose in Prison... XLVIII. Dialogue with the Gout.. .Benjamin Franklin. 136 LII. The Ascent to the Eagle's Nest... ..John Wilson. 148 LIII. The Descent from the Eagle's Nest.....John Wilson. 153 LVIII. “We watched her Breathing' LXII. Escape from Doubting Castle LXIII. Mark Antony's Oration .... William Shakespeare. 179 LXIV. Sancho Panza's Government LXV. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. LXVI. The Charge of the Light Brigade .... W. H. Russell. 193 LXX. The Valley of Humiliation. LXXI. The Village Preacher..... LXXII. How to render Humorous Ideas. ..Mark Bailey. 209 LXXIV. The Murderer can not keep his Secret. . Daniel Webster. 216 LXXVI. Hidden Beauties of Classic Authors...... .N. P. Willis. 221 LXXVII. The Launch of the Ship. LXXVIII. Building the House... LXXXII. How to render Impassioned Ideas.. .Mark Bailey. 234 LXXXIII. How I learned to write Prose.... .Benjamin Franklin. 237 LXXXIV. Translation of the Twenty-third Psalm..Joseph Addison. 241 LXXXV. A Rill from the Town Pump .... Nathaniel Hawthorne. 243 LXXXVI. The Eve before Waterloo. LXXXVII. The Battle of Waterloo. LXXXVIII. The Defeat at Waterloo PAGI XC. Poetic Reading. I....... Mark Bailey. 266 .R. W. Emerson. 275 Washington Irving. 278 Washington Irving. 283 Robert Burns. 291 .John Milton. 293 Mark Bailey. 295 William Shakespeare. 300 Edward Everett. 302 .Mark Bailey. 306 .James G. Percival. 313 .Psalm XIX. 315 .Samuel Johnson. 317 William Shakespeare. 320 Thomas De Quincey. 324 .Robert Southey. 327 .Nathaniel Hawthorne. 332 . Anonymous. 335 John Philpot Curran. 339 Alfred Tennyson. 341 .Lewis Carroll. 342 ...Oliver Wendell Holmes. 345 Theodore O'Hara. 351 William Hazlitt. 354 J. G. von Salis (Longfellow's translation). 356 Anonymous. 357 .Lord Byron. 362 |