The Song of the Shirt.....

The South during the Revolution..................................

The Strength of the American Government.....

Thomas Hood. 92

..Hayne. 166
..John Bright. 275
Mrs. S. J. Hale. 269
. Chalmers. 280

...Francis De Haes Janvier. 244

.....Oliver Goldsmith. 261

Trial Scene in the Merchant of Venice........

Tribute to Webster..............................................

True Eloquence......

THE BRIGHT SIDE.

HERE is many a rest in the road of life,

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If we only would stop to take it, And many a tone from the better land, If the querulous heart would wake it! To the sunny soul that is full of hope,

And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth, The grass is green and the flowers are bright, Though the wintry storm prevaileth.

Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;

For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through,
When the ominous clouds are rifted!
There was never a night without a day,
Or an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.

There is many a gem, in the path of life
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jewelled crown,
Or the miser's hoarded treasure:
It may be the love of a little child,
Or a mother's prayers to Heaven;
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.

Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,

And to do God's will with a ready heart
And hands that are swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, slender threads
Of our curious lives asunder,

And then blame Heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit, and grieve, and wonder.