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WITH THE
BEST AMERICAN AUTHORS.
SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY
CHARLES MORRIS.
VOL. IV.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
CONTENTS.
SUBJECT.
AUTHOR.
PAGE
The Yosemite Valley ......... FITZHUGH LUDLOW......
The Parisian “ Pension" ....... Joan SANDERSON ......
The Fate of Major André. ...... ALEXANDER HAMILTON . .
A Gale off Cape Horn .........R. H. DANA ......
Washington ............. THEODORE PARKER ..
Poems of Thought and Sympathy ... VARIOUS . .....
Thought. ............. Helen Hunt JACKSON . .
Thought. ............. C. P. CRANCH ......
A King ..... . . .
..... EDGAR FAWCETT .....
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Released ....
. . Mrs. A. D. T. WHITNEY .
Anywhere .....
... M. E. CLARKE ....
Two Good-Nights ... .... ANONYMOUS . .....
Lines for an Album ........ ANONYMOUS . .....
Outgrown .............JULIA C. R. DORR ..... Higher Tenants .......... JOHN J. PIATT ...... Tribute to Joseph Rodman Drake . . Fitz-GREENE HALLECK .
The Disappointed ......... ELLA WHEELER Wilcox . ..
The Theory of Land-Taxation ..... HENRY GEORGE .....
The Crest of the Alleghanies ..... EDWARD STRAHAN. ....
The Good Old Times ......... CHARLES HEBER CLARK ...
In the Autumn Woodlands ...... Susan WARNER . ...
Absalom .............. N. P. WILLIS . ....
The Sabbath in New England .....C. M. SEDGWICK . ....
The Revision of the Constitution ....John RANDOLPH . .....
Discovery of the Mississippi by Marquette GEORGE Bancroft .... ., 105
River Drift-Wood .......... SARAH ORNE JEWETT .. .. 110
Patriotic Songs ........... VARIOUS ..........
Hail Columbia ........... Joseph HOPKINSON .... The Star-Spangled Banner ..... FRANCIS S. Key ...... Battle-Hymn of the Republic . ... Julia WARD HOWE.....
America. ............. SAMUEL F. SMITH ......
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148
. 177
180
Ode to the American Flag ...... JOSEPH RoduAN DRAKE ...
Sheridan's Ride ...... ....T. BUCHANAN READ .... 128
The Blue and the Gray ... .... Francis M. Finch .....
Burning of a Lake Steamer . . .... Robert DALE OWEN . ..
Words of Wisdom ..... ...JAMES A. GARFIELD ...
Paradise Plantation .... . . L. S. HOUGHTON. ......
Centennial Oration .....
.... HENRY Armitt Brown ... . 170
The Singer's Hills ..... .... Helen Hunt JACKSON . ...
When the House is Alone ... .... MARY KYLE Dallas ....
Daisy Miller . ............ Henry JAMES ...
The Ocklawaha in May. ....... SIDNEY LANIER : ... 190
Twelve Hundred Miles through the Air . John Wise . ...... 202
Importance of Literary Style ..... William Mathews .
213
The Songs of the Troubadours . ..., Harriet W. PRESTON . . 224
The Death of the Whale ........ H. MelvilLE. ..... 230
German Ideas about America .....J. Ross BROWNE ..... 236
The Famine ............. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW .. 243
Incidents of Arctic Travel ....., E. K. KANE ......
The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things. Mrs. E. A. Walker... 254
The Man in the Reservoir . ...... C. F. HOFFMAN. ... 262
The Mound-Builders ......... ANONYMOUS . .....
272
Unwritten Musio . ...... .....N. P. Willis . ...
284
Life at Threescore and Ten'. . .... ALBERT BARNES. ..
No Use being in a Hurry ... ....J. K. PAULDING. ... 293
A Tiger-Hunt in India .... ....W. T. HORNADAY .... 304
Poems of Humor . ...... ..... Various . ........
314
Old Grimes .......
.... ALBERT G. GREENE .. 314
Mary's Bee............ JAMES NACK ........ 316
Little Breoches .......... John Har ......
The Philosopher Toad . ....... Mrs. R. S. NICHOLS.
319
Vesta . .............. EDGAR FAWCETT ...
320
Plain Language from Truthful James. BRET HARTE ...... 321
A Babylonish Ditty ........F. S. Cozzens . .... 323
Nothing to Wear . ......... WILLIAM A. BUTLER... 326
Labor in the Middle Ages . ...... Charles J. STILLÉ ... 329
The Theory of Evolution ....... MONCURE D. Conway ... 337
Spelling down the Master ....... EDWARD EGGLESTON . .... 345
A Newport Romance ......... Bret HARTE ........ 358
The Debt of Religion to Science. ... Minor J. Savage ...... 361
The Faun and the Nymph. ...... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. .. 371
The Lessons of American History . . . Gulian C. VERPLANCK . ....
289