WILLIAM STOUGHTON. From an election sermon at Boston, Mass., April
29, 1669.
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this
wilderness.
THE NAME "AMERICA."
MOSES F. SWEETSER, an American _litterateur_. Born in
Massachusetts, 1848. From his "Hand-book of the United States."[61]
The name America comes from _amalric_, or _emmerich_, an old German word
spread through Europe by the Goths, and softened in Latin to Americus,
and in Italian to Amerigo. It was first applied to Brazil. Americus
Vespucius, the son of a wealthy Florentine notary, made several voyages
to the New World, a few years later than Columbus, and gave spirited
accounts of his discoveries. About the year 1507, Hylacomylus, of the
college at St. Die, in the Vosges Mountains, brought out a book on
cosmography, in which he said, "Now, truly, as these regions are more
widely explored, and another fourth part is discovered, by Americus
Vespucius, I see no reason why it should not be justly called
_Amerigen_; that is, the land of Americus, or America, from Americus,
its discoverer, a man of a subtle intellect." Hylacomylus invented the
name America, and, as there was no other title for the New World, this
came gradually into general use. It does not appear that Vespucius was a
party to this almost accidental transaction, which has made him a
monument of a hemisphere.
THE COLUMBINE AS THE EXPOSITION FLOWER.
T. T. SWINBURNE, the poet, has written to J. M. Samuels, chief of
the Department of Horticulture at the World's Columbian Exposition,
proposing the columbine as the Columbian Exposition and national
flower. He gives as reasons:
It is most appropriate in name, color, and form. Its name is suggestive
of Columbia, and our country is often called by that name. Its botanical
name, _aquilegia_, is derived from _aquila_ (eagle), on account of the
spur of the petals resembling the talons, and the blade, the beak, of
the eagle, our national bird. Its colors are red, white, and blue, our
national colors. The corolla is divided into five points resembling the
star used to represent our States on our flag; its form also represents
the Phrygian cap of liberty, and it is an exact copy of the horn of
plenty, the symbol of the Columbian Exposition. The flowers cluster
around a central stem, as our States around the central government.
THE SONG OF '76.
BAYARD TAYLOR, the distinguished American traveler, writer, and
poet. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1835; died at
Berlin, December 19, 1878. From his "Song of '76." By permission of
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers, Boston.
Waken, voice of the land's devotion!
Spirit of freedom, awaken all!
Ring, ye shores, to the song of ocean,
Rivers answer, and mountains call!
The golden day has come;
Let every tongue be dumb
That sounded its malice or murmured its fears;
She hath won her story;
She wears her glory;
We crown her the Land of a Hundred Years!
Out of darkness and toil and danger
Into the light of victory's day,
Help to the weak, and home to the stranger,
Freedom to all, she hath held her way!
Now Europe's orphans rest
Upon her mother-breast.
The voices of nations are heard in the cheers
That shall cast upon her
New love and honor,
And crown her the Queen of a Hundred Years!
North and South, we are met as brothers;
East and West, we are wedded as one;
Right of each shall secure our mother's;
Child of each is her faithful son.
We give thee heart and hand,
Our glorious native land,
For battle has tried thee, and time endears.
We will write thy story,
And keep thy glory
As pure as of old for a Thousand Years!
MAN SUPERIOR.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, American author and naturalist. Born in
Concord, Mass., 1817; died in 1862. From his "Excursions" (1863).
By permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers,
Boston.
If the moon looks larger here than in Europe, probably the sun looks
larger also. If the heavens of America appear infinitely higher and the
stars brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to
which the philosophy and poetry and religion of her inhabitants may one
day soar. At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as
much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it, as
much brighter. For I believe that climate does thus react on man, as
there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and
inspires. Will not man grow to greater perfection intellectually as well
as physically under these influences? Or is it unimportant how many
foggy days there are in his life? I trust that we shall be more
imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more
ethereal, as our sky; our understanding more comprehensive and broader,
like our plains; our intellect generally on a grander scale, like our
thunder and lightning, our rivers, and mountains, and forests, and our
hearts shall even correspond in breadth and depth and grandeur to our
inland seas. Else to what end does the world go on, and why was America
discovered?
AMERICAN SCENERY.
WILLIAM TUDOR, an American _litterateur_. Born at Boston in 1779;
died, 1830.
Our numerous waterfalls and the enchanting beauty of our lakes afford
many objects of the most picturesque character; while the inland seas,
from Superior to Ontario, and that astounding cataract, whose roar would
hardly be increased by the united murmurs of all the cascades of Europe,
are calculated to inspire vast and sublime conceptions. The effects,
too, of our climate, composed of a Siberian winter and an Italian
summer, furnish new and peculiar objects for description. The
circumstances of remote regions are here blended, and strikingly
opposite appearances witnessed, in the same spot, at different seasons
of the year. In our winters, we have the sun at the same altitude as in
Italy, shining on an unlimited surface of snow, which can only be found
in the higher latitudes of Europe, where the sun, in the winter, rises
little above the horizon. The dazzling brilliancy of a winter's day and
a moonlight night, in an atmosphere astonishingly clear and frosty, when
the utmost splendor of the sky is reflected from a surface of spotless
white, attended with the most excessive cold, is peculiar to the
northern part of the United States. What, too, can surpass the celestial
purity and transparency of the atmosphere in a fine autumnal day, when
our vision and our thought seem carried to the third heaven; the
gorgeous magnificence of the close, when the sun sinks from our view,
surrounded with various masses of clouds, fringed with gold and purple,
and reflecting, in evanescent tints, all the hues of the rainbow.
LIBERTY HAS A CONTINENT OF HER OWN.
HORACE WALPOLE, fourth Earl of Oxford, a famous English literary
gossip, amateur, and wit. Born in London, October, 1717; died,
March, 1797.
Liberty has still a continent to exist in.
LOVE OF AMERICA.
DANIEL WEBSTER, the celebrated American statesman, jurist, and
orator. Born at Salisbury, N. H., January 18, 1782; died at
Marshfield, Mass., October 24, 1852.
I profess to feel a strong attachment to the liberty of the United
States; to the constitution and free institutions of the United States;
to the honor, and I may say the glory, of this great Government and
great country.
I feel every injury inflicted upon this country almost as a personal
injury. I blush for every fault which I think I see committed in its
public councils as if they were faults or mistakes of my own.
I know that, at this moment, there is no object upon earth so attracting
the gaze of the intelligent and civilized nations of the earth as this
great Republic. All men look at us, all men examine our course, all good
men are anxious for a favorable result to this great experiment of
republican liberty. We are on a hill and can not be hid. We can not
withdraw ourselves either from the commendation or the reproaches of the
civilized world. They see us as that star of empire which, half a
century ago, was predicted as making its way westward. I wish they may
see it as a mild, placid, though brilliant orb, making its way athwart
the whole heavens, to the enlightening and cheering of mankind; and not
a meteor of fire and blood, terrifying the nations.
GENIUS OF THE WEST.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, the distinguished American poet. Born at
Haverhill, Mass, December 17, 1807. From his poem, "On receiving an
eagle's quill from Lake Superior." By permission of Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers, Boston.
I hear the tread of pioneers,
Of nations yet to be;
The first low wash of waves, where soon
Shall roll a human sea.
The rudiments of empire here
Are plastic yet and warm;
The chaos of a mighty world
Is rounding into form.
Each rude and jostling fragment soon
Its fitting place shall find--
The raw material of a state,
Its muscle and its mind.
And, westering still, the star which leads
The New World in its train
Has tipped with fire the icy spears
Of many a mountain chain.
The snowy cones of Oregon
Are kindling on its way;
And California's golden sands
Gleam brighter in its ray.
GOD SAVE AMERICA.
ROBERT C. WINTHROP, an American statesman and orator. Born in
Boston, Mass., May 12, 1809. From his "Centennial Oration,"
delivered in Boston, 1876.
Instruments and wheels of the invisible governor of the universe! This
is indeed all which the greatest men ever have been, or ever can be. No
flatteries of courtiers, no adulations of the multitude, no audacity of
self-reliance, no intoxications of success, no evolutions or
developments of science, can make more or other of them. This is "the
sea-mark of their utmost sail," the goal of their farthest run, the very
round and top of their highest soaring. Oh, if there could be to-day a
deeper and more pervading impression of this great truth throughout our
land, and a more prevailing conformity of our thoughts and words and
acts to the lessons which it involves; if we could lift ourselves to a
loftier sense of our relations to the invisible; if, in surveying our
past history, we could catch larger and more exalted views of our
destinies and our responsibilities; if we could realize that the want of
good men may be a heavier woe to a land than any want of what the world
calls great men, our centennial year would not only be signalized by
splendid ceremonials, and magnificent commemorations, and gorgeous
expositions, but it would go far toward fulfilling something of the
grandeur of that "acceptable year," which was announced by higher than
human lips, and would be the auspicious promise and pledge of a glorious
second century of independence and freedom for our country. For, if that
second century of self-government is to go on safely to its close, or is
to go on safely and prosperously at all, there must be some renewal of
that old spirit of subordination and obedience to divine, as well as
human, laws, which has been our security in the past. There must be
faith in something higher and better than ourselves. There must be a
reverent acknowledgment of an unseen, but all-seeing, all-controlling
Ruler of the Universe. His word, His house, His day, His worship, must
be sacred to our children, as they have been to their fathers; and His
blessing must never fail to be invoked upon our land and upon our
liberties. The patriot voice, which cried from the balcony of yonder old
State House, when the declaration had been originally proclaimed,
"stability and perpetuity to American independence," did not fail to
add, "God save our American States." I would prolong that ancestral
prayer. And the last phrase to pass my lips at this hour, and to take
its chance for remembrance or oblivion in years to come, as the
conclusion of this centennial oration, and as the sum and summing up of
all I can say to the present or the future, shall be: There is, there
can be, no independence of God; in Him, as a nation, no less than in
Him, as individuals, "we live, and move, and have our being!" GOD SAVE
OUR AMERICAN STATES!
A VOICE OF WARNING.
From "Things that Threaten the Destruction of American
Institutions," a sermon by T. DE WITT TALMAGE, delivered in
Brooklyn Tabernacle, October 12, 1884.
What! can a nation die? Yes; there has been great mortality among
monarchies and republics. Like individuals, they are born, have a middle
life and a decease, a cradle and a grave. Sometimes they are
assassinated and sometimes they suicide. Call the roll, and let some one
answer for them. Egyptian civilization, stand up! Dead, answer the ruins
of Karnak and Luxor. Dead, respond in chorus the seventy pyramids on the
east side the Nile. Assyrian Empire, stand up! Dead, answer the charred
ruins of Nineveh. After 600 years of opportunity, dead. Israelitish
Kingdom, stand up! After 250 years of miraculous vicissitude, and Divine
intervention, and heroic achievement, and appalling depravity, dead.
Phoenicia, stand up! After inventing the alphabet and giving it to the
world, and sending out her merchant caravans to Central Asia in one
direction, and her navigators into the Atlantic Ocean in another
direction, and 500 years of prosperity, dead. Dead, answer the "Pillars
of Hercules" and the rocks on which the Tyrian fishermen spread their
nets. Athens--after Phidias, after Demosthenes, after Miltiades, after
Marathon--dead. Sparta--after Leonidas, after Eurybiades, after Salamis,
after Thermopylae--dead.
Roman Empire, stand up and answer to the roll-call! Once bounded on the
north by the British Channel and on the south by the Sahara Desert of
Africa, on the east by the Euphrates and on the west by the Atlantic
Ocean. Home of three civilizations. Owning all the then discovered world
that was worth owning. Gibbon, in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman
Empire," answers, "Dead." And the vacated seats of the ruined Coliseum,
and the skeletons of the aqueduct, and the miasma of the Campagna, and
the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the bridge
Triumphalis, and the silenced forum, and the Mamertine dungeon, holding
no more apostolic prisoners; and the arch of Titus, and Basilica of
Constantine, and the Pantheon, lift up a nightly chorus of "Dead! dead!"
Dead, after Horace, and Virgil, and Tacitus, and Livy, and Cicero; after
Horatius of the bridge, and Cincinnatus, the farmer oligarch; after
Scipio, and Cassius, and Constantine, and Caesar. Her war-eagle, blinded
by flying too near the sun, came reeling down through the heavens, and
the owl of desolation and darkness made its nest in the forsaken aerie.
Mexican Empire, dead! French Empire, dead! You see it is no unusual
thing for a government to perish. And in the same necrology of nations,
and in the same cemetery of expired governments, will go the United
States of America unless some potent voice shall call a halt, and
through Divine interposition, by a purified ballot-box and an
all-pervading moral Christian sentiment, the present evil tendency be
stopped.
[Illustration: STATUE OF COLUMBUS, ST LOUIS, MO. First Bronze Statue to
Columbus in America (See page 279.)]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 60: Copyright, by permission of Messrs. Lippincott.]
[Footnote 61: By permission of The Matthews-Northrup Co., Publishers.]
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
COLUMBUS.
A
Adams, John, 61
Alden, William Livingston, 61
Anderson, John J., 64
Anonymous, 61-64
Anthony, The Hon. Elliott, 64
Augustine, Saint, 68
B
Baillie, Joanna, 69
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 72
Baltimore _American_, The, 73
Bancroft, George, 79
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 80
Baring-Gould, The Rev. Sabine, 84
Barlow, Joel, 86
Barry, J. J., M. D., 88
Benzoni, Geronimo, 89
Berkeley, The Right Rev. George, 90
Blaine, The Hon. J. G., 90
Bonnafoux, Baron, 90
Boston _Journal_, The, 91
Brobst, Flavius J., 93
Bryant, William C., 93
Buel, J. W., 94
Burroughs, John, 94
Burton, Richard E., 95
Butterworth, Hezekiah, 95
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord, 97
C
Cabot, Sebastian, 97
Capitulations of Santa Fe, 98
Carlyle, Thomas, 99
Carman, Bliss, 100
Carpio, Lope de Vega, 100
Castelar, Emilio, 292
Chapin, E. H., 101
Chicago _Inter Ocean_ 193
Chicago _Tribune_, The, 92-101
Cladera, 63
Clarke, Hyde, 106
Clarke, James Freeman, 106
Clemencin, Diego, 107
Coleman, James David, 107
Collyer, Robert, 108
Columbus of Literature, 109
Columbus of the Heavens, 110
Columbus of Modern Times, 110
Columbus of the Skies, 110
Columbus, Hernando, 110
Columbus, The Mantle of, 113
Cornwallis, Kinahan, 111
Curtis, William Eleroy, 113
D
Dati, Giulio, 115
Delavigne, Jean Francois Casimir, 115
De Costa, Rev. Dr. B. F., 116
Depew, Chauncey M., 117
De Vere, Aubrey Thomas, 117
Draper, John William, 120
Durier, Right Rev. Anthony, 120
Dutto, L. A., 124
E
Eden, Charles Henry, 125
Edrisi, Xerif Al, 127
Egan, Prof. Maurice Francis, 127
Elliott, Samuel R, 128
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 128
Everett, Edward, 129
F
Farrar, The Venerable Frederick William, D. D., 131
Fiske, John, 132
Fothergill, John Milner, M. D. 134
Foster, John, 135
Freeman, Edward Augustus, 135
Friday, 136
G
Gaffarel, Paul, 138
Galiani, The Abbe Fernando, 139
Geikie, The Rev. Cunningham, D. D., 139
Gibbons, The Right Rev. James, D. D., 145
Gibson, William, 145
Glasgow _Times_, 146
Goodrich, F. B., 149
Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume, 149
Gunsaulus, Rev. F. W., D. D., 150
Guyot, Arnold Henry, Ph. D., LL. D., 151
H
Hale, Edward Everett, D. D., 151
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 153
Halstead, Murat, 153
Harding, Edward J., 155
Hardouin, Jean, 159
Harrison, Benjamin, 159
Harrisse, Henry, 160
Hartley, David, 162
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 163
Heine, Heinrich, 162
Helps, Sir Arthur, 164
Herbert, George, 164
Herrera, Antonio y Tordesillas, 165
Herrera, Fernando, 165
Hodgin, C. W., 165
Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von, 166
Hurst, The Right Rev. John Fletcher. D. D., LL. D., 167
I
Irving, Washington, 168
Italian, 182
J
Janssens, Archbishop, 203
Jefferson, Samuel, 182
Johnston, Annie Fellows, 183
K
Kennedy, John S., 184
King, Moses, 184
Knight, Arthur G., 185
L
Lactantius, Lucius, 185
Lamartine, Alphonse, 187
Lanier, Sidney, 189
Lawrence, Eugene, 192
Leo XIII., Pope, 193, 194
Lofft, Capel, 201
Lord, Rev. John, 202
Lorgues, Rossely de, 203
Lowell, James Russell, 64, 204
Lytton, Lord, 291
M
Macaulay, Thomas Babbington, 206
Mackie, C. P., 207
Magnusen, Finn, 208
Major, R. H., 209
Malte-Brun, Conrad, 210
Margesson, Helen P., 210
Markham, Clements Robert, 211
Martyr, Peter, 231
Mason, William, 232
Matthews, J. N., 232
Medina-Celi, The Duke of, 233
Miller, Joaquin, 235
Montgomery, D. H., 237
Morgan, Gen. Thomas J., 237
Morris, Charles, 238
N
Nason, Emma Huntingdon, 238
New Orleans _Morning Star_, 240
New York _Herald_, 251
New York _Tribune_, 253
Nugent, Father, 254
P
Palos, The Alcalde of, 255
Pan-American Tribute, 255
Parker, Theodore, 256
Parker, Capt. W. H., 256
Perry, Horatio J., 257
Peschel, O. F., 260
Petrarch, F., 266
Phillips, Barnet, 261
Pollok, R., 261
Poole, W. F., LL. D., 261
Prescott, W. H., 265
Pulci, Luigi, 267
Q
Quackenbos, G. P., 268
R
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Reed, Myron, 268
Roll of the Crew, 269
Redpath, John Clark, LL. D., 270
Riano, Juan F., 271
Robertson, William, 272
Rogers, Samuel, 63, 275
Russell, William, 277
S
Santarem, Manoel Francisco de Barros y Souza, Viscount, 279
_Saturday Review_, 284
Saunders, R. N., 287
Savage, Minot J., 288
Seneca, 289
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich, 292
Shipley, Mrs. John B, 292
Sigourney (Lydia Huntley), Mrs. 293
Smiles, Samuel, 294
Smithey, Royall Bascom, 295
Sumner, Charles, 297
Swing, Prof. David, 298
T
Tasso, Torquato, 300
Taylor, Bayard, 300
Taylor, Rev. George L., 300
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 301
Tercentenary, 302
Thompson, Maurice, 304
Thoreau, Henry D., 304
Toscanelli, Paolo, 305
Townsend, G. A., 305
Townsend, L. T., D. D., 308
Trivigiano, Angelo, 309
V
Van der Weyde, Dr. P. H., 309
Ventura, Padre Gioacchino, 310
W
Waddington, The Venerable George, Dean of Durham, 310
Watts, Theodore, 312
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 315
White, Daniel Appleton, 315
Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes, 316
Willard, Emma Hart, 317
Winchester, The Rev. Elhanan, 317
Winsor, Justin, 321
Woodberry, George E., 321
Worcester, Joseph Emerson, 321
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
COLUMBIA.
A
Adams, John, 327
Agassiz, Louis Jean Rodolphe, 327
Audubon, J. J., 327
Anonymous, 329
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 329
B
Beecher, Henry Ward, 330
Beman, Nathaniel S. S., 331
Best, St. George, 333
Brackenridge, Henry Hugh, 333
Bright, The Right Hon. John, M. P., 334
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 334
Bryant, William Cullen, 335
Bryce, James, M. P., 536
Burke, Edmund, 337
C
Castelar, Emilio, 339
Channing, William Ellery, 339
Chicago _Inter Ocean_, 341
Choate, Rufus, 341
U. S. S. Columbia, 344
Cook, Eliza, 347
Cornwallis, Kinahan, 347
Cullom, The Hon. Shelby M., 348
Curtis, George William, 349
D
Dana, Olive E., 350
Dwight, Timothy, 351
E
Eddy, T. M., 351
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 353
Everett, Alexander Hill, 353
G
Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 354
Garfield, James A., 356
Gladstone, The Right Hon. William Ewart, 356
Grady, Henry W., 357
H
Harrison, Benjamin, 359
Head, Sir Francis Bond, 360
Henry, Patrick, 360
Hillard, George Stillman, 362
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 363
K
King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, 364
L
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 366
N
_North British Review_, 366
O
Otis, James, 368
P
Paine, Prof. J. K., 368
Phillips, Charles, 369
Phillips, Wendell, 370
Porter, Edward G., 370
Proctor, Edna Dean, 371
R
Read, Thos. Buchanan, 372
Reed, The Rev. Myron W., 372
S
Seward, William Henry, 373
Sewell, Samuel, 374
Storey, Joseph, 374
Stoughton, William, 375
Sweetser, Moses F., 375
Swinburne, T. T., 376
T
Talmage, The Rev. T. Dewitt, 383
Taylor, Bayard, 377
Thoreau, Henry David, 378
Tudor, William, 378
W
Walpole, Horace, 379
Webster, Daniel, 380
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 380
Winthrop, Robert C., 381
INDEX OF HEAD LINES.
A
Admiral of Mosquito Land, 237
Admiration of a Careful Critic, 160
All within the Ken of Columbus, 106
America--Opportunity, 353
The Continent of the Future, 339
The Old World, 327
Flag, 330
Futurity, 327
Idea, 348
National Haste, 336
Nationality, 341
Scenery, 378
Unprecedented Growth, 337
Welcome, 360
Ancient Anchors, 61
An Appropriate Hour, 135
Arma Virumque Cano, 168
At Palos, 284
Atlantic and Pacific, 356
Attendant Fame Shall Bless, 310
B
Barcelona Statue, 81
Bartolomeo Columbus, 124
Beauties of the Bahama Sea, 95
Belief of Columbus, 164
Bible, 308
Boston Statue, 93, 280
Bright's Beatific Vision, 334
Brilliants from Depew, 117
Bronze Door at Washington, 272
Brothers across the Sea, 334
By Faith Columbus found America, 108
By the Grace of God He Was What He Was, 203
C
Cabot's Contemporaneous Utterance, 97
Capitulations of Santa Fe, 98
Captain and Seamen, 95
Care of the New World, 162
Cause of the Discovery, 184
Celebration at Hamburg, 154
Center of Civilization, 356
Children of the Sun, 272
Christopher, the Christ-Bearer, 268
Circular Letter, Archbishop of New Orleans, 241
Claim of the Norsemen, 266
Columba Christum-Ferens--What's in a Name, 240
Columbian Chorus, 368
Columbia, Columbus' Monument, 347
Columbia's Emblem, 371
Columbian Festival Allegory, 250
Columbia--A Prophecy, 333
Columbia, Queen of the World, 351
Columbia's Unguarded Gates, 327
Columbine as the Exposition Flower, 376
Columbus, 73, 312
Aim not Merely Secular, 163
Bank note, 80
Bell, 89
Boldest Navigator, 256
Certain Convictions of, 90
Chains--His Crown, 87
Character of, 265
The Civilizer, 187
Collection, 112
The Conqueror, 69
And the Convent of La Rabida, 62
And Copernicus, 210
Dared the Main, 63
Day, 159, 268-269
And the Egg, 309
The First Discoverer, 166
And the Fourth Centenary of His Discovery, 211
The Fulfiller of Prophecy, 79
A Giant, 167
Glory of Catholicism, 194
Haven, 112
Heard of Norse Discoveries, 210
Of the Heavens, 110
Of the Heavens--Scorned, 130
A Heretic and a Visionary to His Contemporaries, 106
An Ideal Commander, 86
And the Indians, 237
King of Discoverers, 205
Of Literature, 109
The Mariner, 80
A Martyr, 294
Of Modern Times, 91, 110
Neither a Visionary nor an Imbecile, 207
No Chance Comer, 90
Lord North's _Bete Noir_, 315
Pathfinder of the Shadowy Sea, 88
Patron Saint of Real-Estate Dealers, 257
Statue in Chicago, 118
Statue, The City of Colon, 108
Statue in Madrid, 208
Statue, City of Mexico, 234
Statue, New York, 243
A Contemporary Italian Tribute, 115
Critical Days, 134
Cuba's Caves, 113
A Voluminous Writer, 261
At Salamanca, 170, 293
The Sea-King, 99
Of the Skies, 110
Stamps, 263
Supreme Suspense of, 304
A Theoretical Circumnavigator, 270
Crew of Columbus, 269
D
Dark Ages before Columbus, 68
Darkness before Discovery, 297
Death was Columbus' Friend, 260
De Mortuis, nil nisi Bonum, 321
Dense Ignorance of Those Days, 288
Design for Souvenir Coins, 296
Difficulties by the Way, 295
Discoveries of Columbus and Americus, 101
A Discovery Greater than the Labors of Hercules, 231
Doubts of Columbus, 298
Dream, 120
E
Each the Columbus of his own Soul, 63
Eager to Share the Reward, 233
Earnestness of Columbus, 62
Earth's Rotundity, 254
East and West, 372
East longed for the West, 152
Effect of the Discovery, 165
Elect Nation, 375
Error of Columbus, 299
Example of Columbus, 69
Excitement at the News of the Discovery, 132
F
Fame, 131
Fate of Discoverers, 322
Felipa, Wife of Columbus, 183
Final Stage, 333
First American Monument to Columbus, 347
Catholic Knight, 107
Glimpse of Land, 125
To Greet Columbus, 238
Fleet of Columbus, 112
Flight of Parrots was his Guiding Star, 167
Friday, 136
From the Italian, 182
G
Genoa, 153, 277
Genoa Inscription, The, 140
Genoa Statue, The, 140, 280
Genoa--whence Grand Columbus Came, 117
Genius Travels East to West, 139
Genius of the West, 380
Genius Traveled Westward, 232
Geography of the Ancients, 64
Germany and Columbus, 144
Germany's Exhibit of Rarities, 144
Gift of Spain, 256
Glory to God, 300
God Save America, 381
Grand Prophetic Vision, 317
Grand Scope of the Celebration, 341
Grandeur of Destiny, 335
Gratitude and Pride, 359
Great West, 304
Greatest Achievement, 321
Greatest Continuous Empire, 356
Greatest Event, 298
Greatness of Columbus, 61
H
Hands across the Sea, 255
Hardy Mariners Have become Great Heroes, 315
Herschel, the Columbus of the Skies, 101
Hidden World, 350
His Life Was a Path of Thorns, 261
Honor the Hardy Norsemen, 116
Honor to Whom Honor is Due, 279
I
Ideas of the Ancients, 185
Important Find of MMS, 271
Impregnable Will of Columbus, 204
Incident of the Voyage, 165
Increasing Interest in Columbus, 184
Indomitable Courage of Columbus, 93
In Honor of Columbus, 203
Intense Uncertainty, 238
Italian Statue (Baltimore), 78
J
Jesuit Geographer, 159
K
Knowledge of Icelandic Voyages, 300
L
Lake Front Park Statue of Columbus, 185
Land of Liberty, 370
Last Days of the Voyage, 269
Launched out into the Deep, 277
Legend of Columbus, 69
Legend of a Western Island, 85
Legend of a Western Land, 84
Liberty Has a Continent of her Own, 379
Life for Liberty, 153
Like Homer, a Beggar in the Gate, 106
Love of America, 380
Love of Country, 343
M
Magnanimity, 185
Man of the Church, 310
Man's Ingratitude, 86
Man Superior, 378
Majesty of Grand Recollections, 167
Mecca of the Nation, 184
Memorial Arch, New York, 247
Memorial to Columbus at Old Isabella, 171
Mission and Reward, 232
Moral Progress, 373
Morning Triumphant, 150
Mutiny at Sea, 115, 257
Mystery of the Shadowy Sea, 127
N
Name America, 375
National Heritage, 364
National Influence, 374
National Self-respect, 331
Nature Superior, 360
Navigator and the Islands, 72
New Life, 151
New Light on Christopher Columbus, 146
New York Statue, 281
Noah and Columbus, 317
Nobility of Columbus in Adversity, 86
Noble Conceptions, 339
Norsemen's Claim to Priority, 292
O
Observation like Columbus, 139
On a Portrait of Columbus, 321
Once the Pillars of Hercules Were the End of the World, 145
One Vast Western Continent, 329
On Freedom's Generous Soil, 363
Only the Actions of the Just, 86
Onward! Press On!, 291
Our Great Trust, 362
Out-bound, 100
P
Palos, 127
Palos to Barcelona--His Triumph, 261
Palos--the Departure, 70
Palos Statue, 281
Pan-American Tribute, 255
Passion for Gold, 192
Patience of Columbus, 205
Patriotism Defined, 351
Penetration and Extreme Accuracy of Columbus, The, 166
Pen Picture from the South, A, 121
Period, The, 149
Personal Appearance of Columbus, The, 89, 110, 165
Petrarch's Tribute, 260
Philadelphia Statue, 281
Pleading with Kings for a New World, 268
Pope Reviews the Life of the Discoverer, The, 194
Portraits of Columbus, The, 113
Practical and Poetical, 169
Previous Discovery, 138
Primitive Pitch, 372
Prophetic Utterance of Colonial Days, 374
Visions Urged Columbus On, 87
Protest against Ignorance, A, 253
Psalm of the West, 189
Pulci's Prophecy, 267
Q
Queen Isabella's Death, 87
R
Range of Enterprise, 135
Reason for Sailors' Superstitions, The, 145
Reasoning of Columbus, The, 128
Religion, 176
Religion Turns to Freedom's Land, 164
Religious Object of Columbus, 88
Reminiscence of Columbus, A, 287
Responsibility, 354
Reverence and Wonder, 61
Ridicule with which the Views of Columbus were Received, 64
Rising of the Western Star, 329
Route to the Spice Indies, 305
S
Sacramento Statuary, 277
Sagacity, 128
St. Louis Statue, The, 279
Salamanca Monument, 278
San Salvador or Watling's Island, 162
Santa Maria Caravel, 94, 282
Rabida, The Convent, 275
Santiago Bust, 279
Santo Domingoan Cannon, 282
Scarlet Thorn, 94
Searcher of the Ocean, 182
Secret, 149
Seeker and Seer, 155
Seneca's Prophecy, 289
Sequel of the Discovery, 353
Seville Tomb, 289
Ship Columbia, 370
Sifted Wheat, 356
Song of America, The, 111
Song of '76, 377
Southern America's Tribute, 280
Sovereign of the Ascendant, 369
Spanish Fountain, New York, 249
Speculation, 164
Standard of Modern Criticism, The, 114
Strange and Colossal Man, 251
Stranger than Fiction, 128
A Superior Soul, 63
Sympathy for Columbus, 209
T
Tales of the East, 252
Tasso's Tribute (in English Spencerian Stanza), 316
Tendency, 151
Tennyson's Tribute, 301
Tercentenary in New York, 302
Testimony of a Contemporary, 309
Three Days, 115
To Spain, 201
The Track of Columbus, 259
The Tribute of Heinrich Heine, 162
Tribute of Joaquin Miller, 235
Tributes of the Phoenix of the Ages, The, 100
Tribute and Testimony of the Pope, 193
Tribute of Tasso, 300
Trifling Incident, 131
Triumph of an Idea, 152
Typical American, 357
U
Undiscovered Country, 128
Unwept, Unhonored, and Unsung, 261
U. S. S. Columbia, 344
V
Valparaiso Statue, 309
Vanderlyn's Picture, 310
Vespucci an Adventurer, 206
Vinland, 133
Visit of Columbus to Iceland, 208
Visit to Palos, 170, 305
Voice of the Sea, The, 128
Voice of Warning, 383
W
Washington Statue, 311
Watling's Island Monument, 311
West Indian Statues, 312
Westward Religion's Banners Took their Way, 90
When History Does Thee Wrong, 97
World a Seaman's Hand Conferred, The, 64
Wrapped in a Vision Glorious, 202
Y
You Can not Conquer America, 93
Young America, 349-353
Youthful Land, 368
INDEX OF STATUARY AND INSCRIPTIONS.
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B
Baltimore Monument, 73
Baltimore Italian Statue, 78
Barcelona Statue, 81
Boston, The Iasagi Statue, 92
First Inspirations of Columbus, 280
Replica of Isabella Statue, 280
C
Cardenas (Cuba) Statue, 312
City of Colon Statue, 108
Chicago, Drake Fountain, Statue of Columbus, 118
(Lake Front) Statue, 185
G
Genoa Inscription, 140
The Reel Palace Statue, 280
Statue, 140
H
Havana Cathedral, Tomb, 312
Cathedral, Inscription, 313
Statue, 313
Bust, 313
I
Isabella Statue, 171
L
Lima (Peru) Statuary, 280
M
Madrid Statue, 208
Mexico City Statue, 234
N
Nassau (Bahamas) Statue, 314
New York, Central Park Statue, 281
Italian Statue, 243
Memorial Arch, 247
Spanish Fountain, 249
P
Palos Statue, 281
Philadelphia Statue, 281
R
Rogers Bronze Door, Washington, D. C., 273
S
Sacramento, Cal., Statuary in the Capitol, 277
Salamanca Monument, 278
Santiago (Chili) Bust, 279
Santo Domingo, Inscription and Tomb, 38, 314
Statue, 315
St. Louis (Mo.) Statue, 279
Seville Tomb and Inscription, 36, 289
V
Valparaiso (Chili) Statue, 309
Vanderlyn's Picture at Washington, 310
W
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Watling's Island Monument, 311
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