TITLE. AUTHOR. PAGE.
1. Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle Blackwood's Magazine. 63
2. The Needle Samuel Woodworth. 67
3. Dawn Edward Everett. 68
4. Description of a Storm Benjamin Disraeli. 70
5. After the Thunderstorm James Thomson. 72
6. House Cleaning Francis Hopkinson. 73
7. Schemes of Life often Illusory Samuel Johnson. 78
8. The Brave Old Oak Henry Fothergill Chorley. 81
9. The Artist Surprised 82
10. Pictures of Memory Alice Cary. 88
11. The Morning Oratorio Wilson Flagg. 90
12. Short Selections in Poetry:
I. The Cloud John Wilson. 94
II. My Mind William Byrd. 94
III. A Good Name William Shakespeare. 95
V. Sunrise James Thomson. 95
V. Old Age and Death Edmund Waller. 95
VI. Milton John Dryden. 96
13. Death of Little Nell Charles Dickens. 96
14. Vanity of Life Johann Gottfried von Herder. 100
15. A Political Pause Charles James Fox 102
16. My Experience in Elocution John Neal. 104
17. Elegy in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray. 108
18. Tact and Talent 113
19. Speech before the Virginia Convention Patrick Henry. 115
20. The American Flag Joseph Rodman Drake. 119
21. Ironical Eulogy on Debt 121
22. The Three Warnings Hester Lynch Thrale. 124
23. The Memory of Our Fathers Lyman Beecher. 128
24. Short Selections in Prose:
I. Dryden and Pope Samuel Johnson. 130
II. Las Casas Dissuading from Battle R.B. Sheridan. 130
III. Action and Repose John Ruskin. 131
IV. Time and Change Sir Humphry Davy. 131
V. The Poet William Ellery Channing. 132
VI. Mountains William Howitt. 132
25. The Jolly Old Pedagogue George Arnold. 133
26. The Teacher and Sick Scholar. Charles Dickens. 135
27. The Snow Shower William Cullen Bryant. 141
28. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Phillips. 143
29. Napoleon at Rest John Pierpont. 146
30. War Charles Sumner. 148
31. Speech of Walpole in Reproof of Mr. Pitt Sir R. Walpole. 151
32. Pitt's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole William Pitt. 152
33. Character of Mr. Pitt Henry Grattan. 154
34. The Soldier's Rest Sir Walter Scott. 156
35. Henry V. to his Troops William Shakespeare. 158
36. Speech of Paul on Mars' Hill Bible. 160
37. God is Everywhere Joseph Hutton. 161
38. Lafayette and Robert Raikes Thomas S. Grimke'. 163
39. Fall of Cardinal Wolsey William Shakespeare. 167
40. The Philosopher John P. Kennedy. 171
41. Marmion and Douglas Sir Walter Scott. 176
42. The Present Adelaide Anne Procter. 178
43. The Baptism John Wilson. 180
44. Sparrows Adeline D. Train Whitney. 185
45. Observance of the Sabbath Gardiner Spring. 186
46. God's Goodness to Such as Fear Him Bible. 189
47. Character of Columbus Washington Irving. 192
48. "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep." Elizabeth B. Browning. 195
49. Description of a Siege Sir Walter Scott 197
50. Marco Bozzaris Fitz-Greene Halleck. 202
51. Song of the Greek Bard Lord George Gordon Byron. 205
52. North American Indians Charles Sprague. 209
53. Lochiel's Warning Thomas Campbell. 211
54. On Happiness of Temper Oliver Goldsmith. 215
55. The Fortune Teller Henry Mackenzie. 218
56. Renzi's Address to the Romans Mary Russell Mitford. 221
57. The Puritan Fathers of New England F. W. P. Greenwood. 223
58. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 226
59. Necessity of Education Lyman Beecher. 228
60. Riding on a Snowplow Benjamin Franklin Taylor. 231
61. The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius William Shakespeare. 284
62. The Quack John Tobin. 238
63. Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving. 242
64. Bill and Joe Oliver Wendell Holmes. 240
65. Sorrow for the Dead Washington Irving. 249
66. The Eagle James Gates Percival. 251
67. Political Toleration Thomas Jefferson. 253
68. What Constitutes a State? Sir William Jones. 255
69. The Brave at Home Thomas Buchanan Read. 256
70. South Carolina Robert Young Hayne. 257
71. Massachusetts and South Carolina Daniel Webster. 259
72. The Church Scene from Evangeline H. W. Longfellow. 262
73. Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood. 266
74. Diamond cut Diamond. E'douard Rene' Lefebvre-Laboulaye. 269
75. Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant. 275
76. Indian Jugglers William Hazlitt. 278
77. Antony over Caesar's Dead Body William Shakespeare. 281
78. The English Character William Hickling Prescott. 286
79. The Song of the Potter. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.290
80. A Hot Day in New York William Dean Howells. 292
81. Discontent.--An Allegory Joseph Addison. 295
82. Jupiter and Ten. James T. Fields. 301
83. Scene from "The Poor Gentleman" George Colman. 303
84. My Mother's Picture William Cowper. 310
85. Death of Samson John Milton. 312
86. An Evening Adventure 315
87. The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Wittier. 317
88. The Glove and the Lions James Henry Leigh Hunt. 321
89. The Folly of Intoxication William Shakespeare. 322
90. Starved Rock Francis Parkman. 325
91. Prince Henry and Falstaff. William Shakespeare. 327
92. Studies. Sir Francis Bacon. 332
93. Surrender of Granada. Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. 334
94. Hamlet's Soliloquy. William Shakespeare. 339
95. Ginevra Samuel Rogers. 340
96. Inventions and Discoveries John Caldwell Calhoun. 344
97. Enoch Arden at the Window Alfred Tennyson. 347
98. Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott. 350
99. Speech on the Trial of a Murderer Daniel Webster. 352
100. The Closing Year George Denison Prentice. 355
101. A New City in Colorado Helen Hunt Jackson. 358
102. Importance of the Union Daniel Webster. 362
103. The Influences of the Sun John Tyndall. 364
104. Colloquial Powers of Franklin William Wirt. 366
105. The Dream of Clarence William Shakespeare. 368
106. Homeward Bound Richard H. Dana, Jr. 371
107. Impeachment of Warren Hastings T. B. Macaulay. 375
108. Destruction of the Carnatic Edmund Burke. 379
109. The Raven Edgar Allan Poe. 382
110. A View of the Colosseum Orville Dewey. 389
111. The Bridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.392
112. Objects and Limits of Science Robert Charles Winthrop. 394
113. The Downfall of Poland. Thomas Campbell. 396
114. Labor Horace Greeley. 398
115. The Last Days of Herculaneum Edwin Atherstone. 401
116. How Men Reason Oliver Wendell Holmes. 405
117. Thunderstorm on the Alps Lord Byron. 408
118. Origin of Property Sir William Blackstone. 410
119. Battle of Waterloo Lord Byron. 415
120. "With Brains, Sir" John Brown. 417
121. The New England Pastor Timothy Dwight. 410
122. Death of Absalom Bible. 420
123. Abraham Davenport John Greenleaf Whittier. 424
124. The Falls of the Yosemite Thomas Starr King. 426
125. A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.429
126. Franklin's Entry into Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. 431
127. Lines to a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant. 434
128. Goldsmith and Addison William Makepeace Thackeray. 435
129. Immortality of the Soul Joseph Addison. 438
130. Character of Washington Jared Sparks. 440
131. Eulogy on Washington Henry Lee. 444
132. The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth. 446
133. Value of the Present Ralph Waldo Emerson. 447
134. Happiness Alexander Pope. 451
135. Marion William Gilmore Simms. 453
136. A Common Thought Henry Timrod. 456
137. A Definite Aim in Reading Noah Porter. 457
138. Ode to Mt. Blanc Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 462