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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1-Famous Rides, Selections from Shakespeare and other Poets,
and Studies in Rhythm
WASHINGTON IRVING.
111
RIP VAN WINKLE.
113
THE VOYAGE
132
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
139
THE GREAT STONE FACE.
141
MY VISIT TO NIAGARA.
163
EDGAR ALLAN POE.....
170
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM.
172
THE RAVEN.
190
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
194
EVANGELINE: A TALE OF ACADIE.
197
THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP.
251
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
263
SNOW-BOUND
265
THE SHIP BUILDERS.
286
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES..
289
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.
291
THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE; OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-Hoss
SHAY"
292
OLD IRONSIDES.
297
THE Boys.
298
THE LAST LEAF.
300
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL..
302
THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL.
303
YUSSOUF
315
SIDNEY LANIER......
316
THE MARSHES OF GLYNN.
318
PART III—Patriotic Selections
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REGULUS BEFORE THE ROMAN SENATE. Epes Sargent.
THE RETURN OF REGULUS.
Elijah Kellogg.
SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS.
MERIT BEFORE BIRTH.
Sallust
RIENZI'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS.
Mary Russell Mitford.
EMMET'S VINDICATION.
KING PHILLIP TO THE WHITE SETTLER Edward Everett.
THE CAPTURE OF QUEBEC..
. Francis Parkman.
ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES.
Edmund Burke.
THE WAY TO WEALTH.
Benjamin Franklin.
SPEECH ON A RESOLUTION TO PUT VIRGINIA
INTO A STATE OF DEFENCE.
Patrick Henry..
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Edward Everett Hale.
LOVE OF COUNTRY....
Sir Walter Scott.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Charles Phillips.
THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS.
Charles Sumner.
THE EVILS OF WAR.
. Henry Clay...
PEACE, THE POLICY OF A NATION.
John C. Calhoun.
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND.. Daniel Webster.
SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS.
Daniel Webster.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE UNION.
Robert Hayne..
REPLY TO HAYNE...
Daniel Webster..
DEDICATION SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG. Abraham Lincoln.
LINCOLN, THE GREAT COMMONER.
Edwin Markham.
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!.
Walt Whitman..
FAREWELL ADDRESS.
George Washington.
THE MEMORY OF OUR FATHERS.
Henry Ward Beecher.
THE AMERICAN FLAG..
.J. R. Drake ..
WARREN'S ADDRESS
AT THE BATTLE OF
BUNKER HILL..
John Pierpont..
COLUMBUS
Joaquin Miller.
RECESSIONAL-A VICTORIAN ODE.
Rudyard Kipling..
A DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN.
Cardinal Newman.
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