Lent. F. W. Lee.

Recitations Suitable for Lent-Continued.

WM feb98. Short poem telling that a woman will listen to love's call, no matter where or when it may be.

Because "Twas Lent. Julia F. Brinckerhoff. WMmar99. Short poem. She dresses in penitential garb and keeps a mite-chest, but takes the contents to buy an Easter bonnet.

Suggestive Musical Programs.

For each of the five Sundays in Lent. (15c. each.)

What He Would Give Up. WR3. Short child-dialect poem. A boy is willing to give up going to school as his Lenten sacrifice.

Pontius Pilate. Edwin Arnold. WRII. Long, classic poem.

Pilate's wife tells him of her dreams

concerning Jesus and of the portents following the Crucifixion. Crucifixion, The. Lew Wallace. WR12. Long, dramatic prose description of the Crucifixion. Sackcloth and Ashes. Henry Baldwin. ("Robert H. Hatch's Recitals," 30c.) Humorous prose society skit reporting a Lenten dialogue that takes place at Mrs. Washington Swagger's afternoon tea. Suggestive Musical Program for Good Friday. (15c.)

Recitations for Easter

AND OTHER OCCASIONS.

Hiding Easter Eggs. Libbie C. Baer. WMmar92. Poem telling the fun a boy has, while visiting auntie, hiding eggs for Easter.

Eastertide Deliverance, An. M. H. Bulfinch. WMmar92. Pagan soldiers spend the night in reveling and boasting, while the Christians pray, and on the morrow rout the enemy by shouting "alleluia." Poem. Salute of the Lilies.

WMjuly95. Beautiful statue-posing by ten young ladies in Greek gowns, each girl holding a lily. Crowning of Easter, The. Lucy H. Carpenter. (15c.) An entertainment with full music. The days observed by Christian churches convene to do homage to Easter. Requires five girls, but two boys added would be more effective.

While they

What the Bells Say. Mary L. Gaddess. WMapl92. Poem introducing various bells. are rung behind the scenes suitable text is recited either by one or by eleven persons. Easter Fantastics. Use "Revels of the Naiads." (25c.) Decorate hoops with white Easter lilies, real

or paper ones.

Easter Drill. Use "Scarf Fantastics." (25c.) Make scarfs of smilax and Easter lilies.
Message of Easter, A. Marion R. Riche. WMmar94. Poem. Women having brought spice to
Christ's tomb and finding it empty, are comforted by an angel telling them "the Lord is risen, go
tell the glad tidings."

Prince Eric's Christ-Maid. Emma Dunning Banks. (15c.) With lesson-talk. Eric offers to wed
her who sends the fairest Easter lilies. A plot of rivals results in Constance's supposed death; and
she, covered with lilies and about to be buried, is restored to life. Poem.
Easter, "The Sunday of Joy." Prose essay. WMmar99.

WMapril 1900.

Suggestive Easter Entertainment for Sunday Schools or Young People's Societies. Easter in a Hospital Bed. Nym Crinkle. (35c., in "Elocutionary Studies.") A most charming prose piece telling of death of a woman, who recalls her home, marriage, and hard lot. Opportunity for musical accompaniment.

Myrrh Bearers, The, Pantomimed. Poem by E. D. Mund, pantomime by Birdie Stanley. (25c.) Begins in gloom and despair, but ends in joy and hope through the Resurrection. An Easter anthem may be sung at the end with fine effect. For nine girls.

ABBREVIATIONS " WM" means "Werner's Magazine" (25c.). "WR" means "Werner's Readings and Recitations" (35c.).

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Recitations for Easter-Continued.

Poem. Man, weary and melancholy, is comforted by glad tidings borne

him by lily, passion-flower, violet, and jasmine. Birth, Death and Resurrection of the Flowers. tableaux for Easter.

Mary Hebard. WMmar1900. Entertainment and

In the movements the

Easter Tableaux. Stanley Schell. WMmar99. For 12 girls in white costume.

girls form the different letters of the word Easter," each letter making a tableau. At final letter the whole word Easter " appears over the posers.

In Paradise. WMmar99. Poem telling of Jesus, crucified, now drawing all men to Him in adoring faith and gladness to rest with Him in Paradise.

Mary's Story of the Crucifixion.

Edwin Arnold. WR12. Suitable for Good Friday or for Easter. Easter Sermon, An. WMmar98. Humorous poem telling of a woman's gladness because of the admiration her new bonnet and clothes will arouse when she goes to church.

Kitty's Easter Offering. Marion Dickinson. WMmar96. Violinist foregoes playing for a famous singer on Easter in order to play for a dying cripple.

Born, Crucified, Risen. Ida G. Rust. WMmar97. Poem telling of Mary and Joseph coming to Bethlehem and being compelled to sleep in the barn, where Christ was born; then of the Crucifixion and of the Resurrection.

Saved by an Easter Egg. WMmar97. Prose romantic story of a man, who, after several years of frivolous life, is reformed and brought back to his youthful sweetheart.

Old Bell-Ringer, The. WMmar99. Prose Russian tale of an old bell-ringer dying among the ropes in the belfry, whither he had gone to ring the bell on Easter eve.

Legend of the Lily. WMmar98. Imaginative poem of how God looks on the assembled host each carrying a flower, and of a child, sorrowing because he can find no flower, being permitted to return to earth, and there finds the fairest flower-the Easter lily.

Legend of the Lily, The. Annie Wall. WR6. An angel, weeping because he can not find on earth a flower white and pure enough to offer to his King, finds that lilies spring up where his tears fall. Calpurnia. H. H. Boyesen. WR5. Most dramatic poem suitable for church entertainments. A maiden, whose parents have been cast to the lions in the arena, by her courage, trust and devotion, converts the Roman prætor.

Where the Lilies Bloom. H. L. Piner. (15c.) Pathetic blank verse temperance monologue for a man, although any one may give it. A man is restored to his wife by a song. Opportunity to sing, with guitar accompaniment. Music given.

Vision of Handel, The. P. L. Blatchford. Poem. The great composer prays for inspiration to finish the oratorio of "The Messiah," and is visited by an angel, who helps him to write "I know that my Redeemer liveth," and the "Hallelujah Chorus." A beautiful recitation with musical accompaniment from "The Messiah."

Last Night, The. Virna Woods. WR12. Poem. A condemned man, on the night before he was to be executed, has a vision of the Saviour's birth and Crucifixion, and, remembering the words, To-day be thou with me in paradise," dies peacefully in his cell.

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How the Gates Came Ajar. Helen I. Bostwick. Through a child-angel's pleading, Heaven's gates are set ajar so that the bereaved mother will be comforted.

Considering the Lilies.

Cute encore.

Humorous imitation of the way a fashionable church choir sings an anthem.

On Board the Victory. Ednah Robinson. WR22. Amid a ship-load of adventurers, gamblers, etc., who flaunt irreligious sentiments, a little girl, when asked for her belief, startles all by reciting the Apostolic creed. Prose.

Aunt Deborah Hears "The Messiah." WR25. countrywoman has on hearing "The Messiah occasions.

Yankee dialect prose, telling the sensations an old sung in the city. Suitable for religious and other

Flowers Sleep, The. Annie Moore. WR17. A Delsartian entertainment for any number of little folks. The poem, telling where flowers go in winter, and how they awake at Easter, may be recited or sung while the children pantomime it.

Easter Altar-Cloth, The. Julia H. Thayer. WMapl98. A nun spends her leisure for years working lovingly and faithfully on an altar cloth, but is often called away to perform some duty, until finally, on returning from hospital work, she finds her cloth has been completed by, miracle. Ivory Crucifix, The. G. W. Miles. WR6. A monk, having undertaken with holy purpose to carve a crucifix, is inspired by heavenly vision to make the work perfect.

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WASHINGTON CELEBRATIONS

PART I.

A Book for Schools, Colleges, and for Home Reading and Entertainment. 350. IN PAPER BINDING. 600. IN CLOTH BINDING. POST-PAID

DESCRIPTIVE CONTENTS.

Approach of the Presidency, The. George Washington. Prose. Letter to Henry Lee expressing reluctance to his being nominated for President of United States and his preference for home-life. Battle of Trenton, The. Poetry. Story of American troops with Washington crossing Delaware, Christmas Night, '76, and defeating British and Hessians at Trenton.

Be Like George Washington. S. Jennie Smith. A song for young people. Words and music given. Birthday Lesson, The. Mary L. Burdick. Poem. Some little girls dress like old-fashioned folks, then visit great-grandma, who smiles when each one tells her whom she represents. She then teaches them a lesson by saying that to represent such persons each of them should not only wear the clothes, but also the manners of those gracious dames.

Poetry.

Birthday of Washington Ever Honored, The. George Howland.
and tells how he stood unshaken amid the storm-the guardian of our land.
Burial of Washington, The. Prose. Full description of that event.
Commission as Commander-in-Chief.
Elements in Washington's Greatness.
mentioning certain of Washington's traits.

Praises Washington

Prose. Copy of the original commission.

R. J. White. Prose. Recitation for six pupils, each pupil

Epitaph on Washington, An. Poem. Giving an account of Washington's rank and place among the people of the world.

Father of our Land, The. C. T. Steele.

any patriotic occasion.

Song-words and music-for Washington's birthday or

Flag Song for Washington's Birthday. Annie E. Chase. Poem. Action Song introducing flags with movements.

George Washington. Poem. Historical recitation for five small boys, each boy holding a card bearing an important Washington date.

George Washington. Poem. Humorous poem about a boy who, like Washington, never told a liehe was dumb!

George Washington.

Phillis Wheatley, negro poetess. Poem. Descriptive of Revolutionary War and in praise of Washington.

George Washington. Poem. Six lines about Washington's monument.

George Washington's Jife. Hale H. Richardson. Poem. Concert recitation suitable for six boys or girls. About Washington's childhood, boyhood, manhood, the soldier. Great Immortal Washington, The. W. S. Hyde. Poem. Retrospective. Tells of the deeds of our forefathers with Washington as leader. Their spirits are with us still.

Great Experiment, A. George Washington.

Prose. Letter sent Catharine Macaulay, thanking her

for her congratulations on his being made President, also stating that home-life is preferable and that nothing short of absolute conviction of duty brings him into public life.

Hints for the Observing of Washington's Birthday. Prose. For various grades in school. I'm the Little Red Stamp. S. W. Foss. Poem. Tells about the little red stamp with Washington's picture, and where it goes. May be recited by a large boy or girl with a large red stamp painted on manila paper.

I Would Tell. Poem. Recitation for five boys. Each one tells something about Washington. When he is a boy, when twenty-one, at Valley Forge, when the war is over, and when his life ends. Just Like Washington. Stanley Schell. Poem. What a little boy would do in case of war. Whether war or peace, he would strive to be like Washington.

Life of George Washington, The. Stanley Schell. Exercise for twenty-seven children. Washington's life-important events from birth to death.

Like Washington. Clara J. Denton. Poem. Boy tells how they are gathered to celebrate the day, and that though he may never be as wise or as great as Washington, he may yet be as good-a true, honest man.

Literary Side of Washington, John de Morgan. Essay.

Little Hatchet. A.

Poem, eight lines. Little boy says that whenever he hears about Washington he longs to be like him and the most like him-to have a little hatchet.

Little Hatchet; or, The Centennial Bor, The. R. J. Burdette. Prose. Five-year-old boy continually interrupts story and questions about George Washington. Very funny.

My Hatchet. Stanley Schell. Poem. Little boy makes a hatchet, decorates it, and puts it on a shelf to remind him of Washington and lead him to be like him.

Modern Washington, A. Joe Lincoln. Poem. Children's dialect. Humorous. Boy imitates Washington by telling the truth when asked about stealing jam. His father, however, punishes him. Ode to Washington. B. B. Davis. Song or duet about Washington. Words and music.

Origin of the Celebration of Washington's Birthday. Prose. Brief note about the event. Our Washington. Poem. Where the name of Washington is inscribed and what Washington did for us.

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The American negro confesses the savage Africa as his source, but let us remember Africa cradled more than savages. The Ethiopic tongue (Geez) was long a language of literary cultivation under Christian influence. The splendid qualities of the Egyptians ring down the centuries. Their tongue proves distant relationship to Semitic blood. To their great monument, the Sphinx, the Egyptians gave an Ethiopic cast of features, an outline almost reproduced in many finely characteristic negro faces of to-day.