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13. Monk Felix......

14. Description of the Ruins at Balbec...

15. The Convict Ship....

16. Mountains....

17. Ireland and the Irish..

18. The Duellist's Honor..

..Longfellow 76
..Lamartine 80
T. K. Hervey 83
William Howitt 84
.C. Edwards Lester 86
Bishop England 87

19. Emotions on Returning to the United States, 1837.......Legaré 89

20. Afar in the Desert..

21. Post Nummos Virtus.

22. Grace Darling...

23. The Church..

24. The Church-(Concluded)..

25. The Crusaders Approach Jerusalem..

26. The Suliote Mother

27. The End of the Long Parliament..

28. American Literature...

29. Legend of St. Jodocus..

30. The Poor Exile...

31. A Christmas Hymn..

32. Baron Geramb...

33. The Angels of Buena Vista..

34. The Possession of Juba..

.Mt. Rev. Abp. Spalding 92

Wordsworth 94

...Macaulay 97

.Ib. 98

....Tasso 99

.Mrs. Hemans 102

..Lingard 103

..Grimke 106

Translated from the German 107

35. The Possession of Juba-(Continued)..

36. The Possession of Juba-(Concluded).

37. Waiting for the May...

39. The Tyrant and the Captive...

40. The Submarine Telegraph..

41. The Human Voice.

42. The Bell of Liberty.

43. The Just Man....

44. Summer Hymn..

45. The Christian Preacher

46. What is Glory ?.......

47. Christendom..

48. The Good Old Times.

49. Maryland...

50. The Female Martyr..

51. American History..

52. Soggarth Aroon..

53. Summer's Farewell.

54. Rome Under Nero.

..Lamennais 109

.Cardinal Wiseman 112

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62. St. Bernard.......

.From the German of Scheffler 142

.Motherwell 145

.Rev. J. M. Neale 149

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63. O for the Wings of the Wind to Wander !....Judge Arrington 178

64. A Man Overboard..

65. The Fount of Song..

66. Monasteries....

56. The Martyrs of Fatherland..

57. The American Republic......

58. Don't Forget..

67. Charity....

68. The Peri's Song

69. Floating Islands.

70. The Skylark..

71. Revolutionists...

72. The Aztec Empire....

73. The Valley of Mexico..

74. What is Poetry?

75. Our Neighbor.

76. The Angelus...

77. Song of the Shirt.

78. The Press....

79. Ruins of Copan and Palenque...

80. The Spirit of Beauty...

81. Man's Position in Creation.

82. The Acadians.......

83. The Tyrolese

.G. W. Prentice 193

.E. A. Starr 194

.Cardinal Wiseman 195

.D. MacLeod 207

84. To the Memory of those who fell in the Rebellion of 1745. Collins 210

85. The Gray Forest Eagle..

87. The Extra Train...

88. The Month of October in Italy.

89. Coxcombry in Conversation...

90. Henry IV's Apostrophe to Sleep..

91. Success the Reward of Merit.

92. Alexander's Feast..

93. The Silver-Bird's Nest

94. The Burial at Sea.

95. The Glove and the Lions.

96. Modern Theories..

97. To-morrow is Saint Crispian..

98. A Challenge to America....

99. The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay".

100. Last Days of Peter Stuyvesant

102. Origin of the City of New York..

103. The Dismissal of General Von Poffenburgh.

104. The Height of Ridiculous..

105. Country Excursion...

107. Sir Hudibras.....

106. Country Excursion-(Concluded)..

.S. B. Street 210

.Père Felix 213

.Cardinal Wiseman 217

.Shakspeare 220

.Rev. F. S. Baker 221

Miss H. F. Gould 223

.Rev. J. M. Neale 224

.Montalembert 226

.Shakspeare 228

..J. K. Paulding 248

Joanna Baillie 252

.Longfellow 253

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15. Senatorial Denunciation of Richard Cromwell...Sir Henry Vane 281

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.Sir Robert Walpole 284

.Shakspeare 288

.Lord Chatham 290

.Earl of Chatham 292

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34. Satirical Extract from a Speech of Mr. Canning on the Address

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41. Pandemonium....

42. Impeachment of Warren Hastings..

.J. Augustus Shea 321

48. Peroration to the Impeachment of Warren Hastings..

44. Hyder Ali's Invasion of the Carnatic....

45. Marie Antoinette, Queen of Louis XVI.

46. The Tithe Bills.

47. The Tail.....

48 Scenes of Our Youth..

49 The Pillar Towers of Ireland.

50. The Irish Disturbance Bill..

51. Religious Liberty..

52. The Irish Soldier..

53. Laws for Ireland..

54. National Independence.

55. The American Revolution.

56. The Age of Washington.

57. Union and Liberty...

.Blackwood's Magazine 336

.D. F. M'Carthy 338

Josiah Quincy 349

Fisher Ames 351

..O. W. Holmes 351

58. The Federal Constitution, 1787.....

59. Dissolution of the National Compact...

60. Washington's Sword and Franklin's Staff..

61. Liberty or Death....

62. Liberty or Death-(Concluded)

63. Return of British Fugitives, 1782.

65. American Innovations..

66. The Eagle.....

67. The Prospect of War..

68. Reply to Foot's Resolutions.

69. Song of Marion's Men....

70. Matches and Over-matches..

71. The South during the Revolution.

72. The Federal Union.....

73. Peaceable Secession.

74. Free Trade.....

75. Our Country...

76. The State Constitution..

77. The Folly of Disunion..

78. Party Spirit...

79. Factious Power..

80. The Permanence of American Liberty.

81. New Territories...

82. The Disinterestedness of Washington.

88. Our Republic....

84. Liberty and Greatness..

85. Constitutional Changes..

86. The Patriot's Courage

87. Honorable Ambition.

88. Aspirations for America..

89. The Evils of War...

90. Hohenlinden....

91. Valedictory Address to the Senate

92. Freedom of Discussion..

93. The Mexican War...

94. Retributive Justice.

95. The Cause of the Union.

96. Duty of American Citizens..

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John Randolph of Roanoke 397

97. The Foundation of National Character

.C. M. Clay 401

W. C. Preston 409

.R. C. Winthrop 415

.Edward Everett 419

PART IV.—MISCELLANEOUS.

1. On being found guilty of High Treason..

2. Aaron Burr.....

3. Who is Blannerhassett?.

4. The Habeas Corpus Act.

5. Curran's Appeal to Lord Avonmore.

6. Great Minds in their Relations to Christianity

7. Guilt cannot Keep its Own Secret

8. An Appeal to the Jury....

10. Adherbal against Jugurtha.

.Robert Emmet 421

William Wirt 430

Daniel Webster 439

T. F. Meagher 442

11. Alaric the Visigoth...

12. Speech of Salathiel in Favor of Resisting the Roman Power.... 449

13. Extract from Roderick, the Last of the Goths...

14. Salathiel to Titus....

15. Sempronius' Speech for War.

16. Caius Marius to the Romans.

17. Brutus on the Death of Cæsar

18. The Spartans' March...

19. The Death of Leonidas.

20. The Flight of Xerxes.

21. Scipio to his Army.

22. Hannibal to his Army..

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23. Regulus to the Roman Senate.

24. Leonidas to his Three Hundred..

25. Speech of Galgacus to the Caledonians..

..Sir Walter Scott 471

26. Titus Quintius against Quarrels between the Senate and the

27. Richard to the Princes of the Crusade.

28. Alfred the Great to his Men..

29. The Battle..

30. Before Vicksburg...

31. The Alarm-April 19, 1776.

32. Paul Revere's Ride....

33. Macbriar's Speech to the Scotch Insurgents.

34. Spanish War Song...

35. Spartacus to the Gladiators..

36. The Battle Hymn.

37. Flodden Field.

38. Flodden Field-(Concluded)

40. The Light Brigade..

39. Edinburgh after Flodden..

42. Napoleon to the Army of Italy...

41. The Claims of Italy...

.Longfellow 479

.K. T. Körner 488,

William Edmondstoune Aytoun 496

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.Miss Wallace 505

Park Benjamin 509

.Shakspeare 511

.Edward Everett 512

Abp. Spalding 515

.R. C. Winthrop 516

Europe..Lacordaire 520

W. H. Seward 522

58. How they Brought the Good News from Ghent....R.

59. Cato on the Soul's Immortality..

60. Marc Antony's Apostrophe to Cesar's Body.

61. Scene from Julius Cæsar..

$2. Peter Plymley's Letters..

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