The Shipbuilders .. .. .. .. .. What is a Drunkard ?... .. .. .. Across the Fields of Barley .. The Charge of the Light Brigade Melnotte's Apology and Defence Said I to Myself, said I .. .. King Henry IV.'s Soliloquy on Sleep .. The Legend of the Forget-me-Not Oriska .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. PAGE .. .. .. Cowper. .. H. Smith. 77 Sir TV. Scott. 78 .. .. Bret Harte, 104 .. .. Allison. 105 .. N. P. Willis. 109 .. Charles Mackay. 111 Peter Pindar. 129 .. .. Burns. 138 .. .. .. Longfellow. 145 PAGE Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Shakespere. 147 The Spectre Pig .. .. .. .. .. .. The Fearless De Courcy .. .. .. Shall I, Wasting in Despair? ... Bernardo del Carpio .. .. .. ..... Mrs. Hemans. 178 Mr. Simpkinson's Misadventures at Margato .. Rev. R. H, Barham. 181 The Cause of Temperance., .., , .... ... B. Gough. 185 The Last Days of Herculaneum .. ., Patent Brown Stout .. .. .. .. The Ladder of St. Augustine .. .. .. .. .. .. Longfellow. 212 Author of "Beautiful Snow,” 217 .. Author of "Beautiful Child." 220 Alexander and Diogenes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. W. M. Praed. 222 The Living Tombstone .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Anon. 224 The Dying Sailor.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Crabbe. 227 ... The Time I've Lost in Wooing.. The Dying Christian to his Soul .. Ten Years Ago .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FERGUSON'S READINGS AND RECITATIONS. AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. ALL hail ! thou noble land, Our fathers' native soil ! Gigantic grown by toil, For thou, with magic might, The world o’er. From his pine-embattled steep, While the Tritons of the deep, Then let the world combine- Bright in fame. Since our fathers left their home, O’er untravelled seas to roam ; And shall we not proclaim By its chains ? POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO HIS SON LAERTES. While the language free and bold Which the bard of Ayon sung, How the vault of heaven rung, While thus with reverence meet Round our coast; While the manners, while the arts, That moved a nation's soul, Between let ocean roll, Yet, still from either beach Washington Allston. POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, LAERTES. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act; Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France, of the best rank and station, Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; |