............. 452

.... 452

455

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK:

PAGK, JOHN GORIAM PALFREY:

PAGE

Marco Bozzaris..................

408 A Good Daughter........

451

Burus......

410

WILLIAM WARE:

The World is Bright before Thee......... 413

Biographical Sketch..........

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL:

Palmyra in its Glory..

Biographical Sketch..........

413 Palmyra after its Capture and Destruc-

414

Ode,-Liberty to Athens.....

tion

453

Consumption.....

416

Night.........

417

JOHN G. C. BRAINARD:

Love of Study.

418 Lines on, by J.G. Whittier.......

Extract from Prometheus..

419 Biographical Sketch..

455

The Falls of Niagara..

456

MARIA BROOKS:

Epithalamium...

456

420

Biographical Sketch...

457

On a Late Loss.......

Morning....

421 Leather Stocking....

457

Confiding Love..........

421

The Sea-Bird's Song.

458

Marriage...............

422

Song.....................

422

ALBERT BARNES:

Biographical Sketch....

459

WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE:

A Mother's Love-Home..................... 461

Biographical Sketch.......

423 The Traffic in Ardent Spirits.............. 462

Voltaire and Wilberforce.........

424 The Bible versus Slavery- The Duty of

Virtue Crowned with Usefulness.......... 425

the Church..

463

War......

BARAH JOSEPHA HALE:

The Gentle Charities of Life................. 404

Biographical Sketch.

The Value of Industry..

The Light of Home.

4:27

It Snows............

428

ROBERT C. SANDS:

Biographical Sketch....

466

FRANCIS WAYLAND:

From the Proem to Yamoydon............ 467

429

Biographical Sketch...

468

Ode to Evening......

The Object of Missions ..................

430 Monody on Samuel Patch................ 468

The Iliad and the Bible............

431

The Guilt of Punishing the Inno

GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE:

432

cent

471

Biographical Sketch..............

The True Gospel Ministry................ 433

On an Old Wedding Ring................. 471

That Silent Moon............

472

WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT:

Biographical Sketch....

435 GRENVILLE MELLEN:

437

Return of Columbus........

473

Biographical Sketch..........................

Queen Isabella.....

438

The Martyr..........

................. 474

The Character and Fate of Monte- The Eagle...

............ 475

440

zuma.....

475

Conscience...

......... 464

427

.... 465

476

477

CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK:

WILLIAM B. 0. PEABODY:

Biographical Sketch....

441 Biographical Sketch...

A Sabbath in New England.............. 442 Hymn of Nature.........

Uncle Phil and his Invalid Daugh.

ter .................

444 | LYDIA MARIA CHILD:

Biographical Sketch...

JOHN GORHAM PALFREY:

Marius.........

Biographical Sketch.........

447

A Street Scene............

The Elegant Culture and Learning of

478

479

480

481
..... 513

........... 513

....... 488

LEDTA MARIA CHILD:

PAGE , RUFUS DAWES:

PAOR

Where is the Enemy..

482 Biographical Sketch........................ .

510

Spirit of Beauty.........

........... 511

GEORGE BANCROFT:

Sunrise,-From Mount Washington..... 511

Biographical Sketch...

483

Character of Roger Williams...

484 RALPH WALDO EMERSON :

Destruction of the Tea in Boston Har- Biographical Sketch......

bor................

485 The Compensations of Calamity.

Chivalry and Puritanism...

487

Travelling.......

514

The Position of the Puritans............. 487 Self-Reliance .........

............. 515

Good-Bye, Proud World..

........ 515

JAMES G. BROOKS:

Biographical Sketch.........

488 JACOB ABBOTT:

Greece, 1832..............

Biographical Sketch.......................... 516

Intellectual Improvement............... 516

MARY E. BROOKS:

The Thing Essential to Happiness....... 518

Biographical Sketch...................... 490

Weep not for the Dead.................... 490 HORACE BUSHNELL:

Biographical Sketch................... 519

MARK HOPKINS:

Work and Play..

520

Biographical Sketch..

Light...........

522

Christianity not Originated by Man..... 491

Faith—The Race for the Young........... 492 GEORGE W. BETHUNE:

True Worship.........

493 Biographical Sketch....

523

Attractiveness of Irregular Action....... 495 Our Country......

524

Victory over Death..

526

ALBERT G. GREENE:

Cling to thy Mother..

627

Biographical Sketch..

496 Live to do Good....

528

Old Grimes.......

496 Early Lost, Early Saved..

528

..... 491

535

LEONARD BACON:

ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH:

Biographical Sketch.
498 Biographical Sketch...

569

Jobn Davenport's Influence upon New The Drowned Mariner ......

530

Haven..........

499 The Wife

531

The Present Age.....

500

Christianity in History...

501 CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND:

Biographical Sketch...

532

EDWARD C. PINKNEY:

The Authority in a Household............ 633

Biographical Sketch...

602 Borrowing “ Out West".

534

Italy.........

503 Hospitality......

A Health.......

504

A Serenade.

504 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE:

Biographical Sketch....

536

GEORGE P. MORRIS:

A Rill from the Town Pump............. 537

Biographical Sketch..

505 Sights from a steeple......

540

Life in the West..

506 Vanity Fair.

541

When Other Friends are Round

Thee ..........

506 CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN:

Up with the Signal...

507 Biographical Sketch....

643

Woodman, Spare that Tree....

507 A Morning Hymn.....

514

My Mother's Bible...

508 Indian Summer, 1828.

544

We Parted in Sadness.

545

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE:

Sparkling and Bright..

545

Biographical Sketch.....

508

Sabbath Evening.... ............... 509 WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS:

I Think of Thee..............

510 Biographical Sketch...........

616
551

......... 553

............. 563

...............

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS:

PAGE MARY S. B. DANA:

PAGE

The Maiden and the Rattlesnake......... 547 Biographical Sketch......... ................ 586

Song of the Zephyr Spirit..............

Passing under the Rod....................... 586

Heart Essential to Genius................ 552

HENRY REED:

ISAAC MCLELLAN:

Biographical Sketch............

588

Biograpbical Sketch..........

552 Best Method of Reading..................... 589

New England's Dead ........

Poetical and Prose Reading............. 590

Lines, suggested by a Picture by Tragic Poetry ..........

591

Washington Allston.................... 554

WILLIAM D. GALLAGHER:

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS:

Biographical Sketch..........

592

Biographical Sketch..........

555 Truth and Freedom......

592

Hagar in the Wilderness...

556 The Laborer........

693

Saturday Afternoon....

559

The Annoyer....

559 GEORGE STILLMAN HILLARD:

Reverie at Glenmary..

560 Biographical Sketch.......

594

Excursion to Sorrento...

595

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFEL- Spain..........

598

LOW:

Books...

598

Biographical Sketch..........

561

A Psalm of Life.....

562 LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON:

The Reaper and the Flowers............... 563 Biographical Sketch..............

600

Footsteps of Angels..........

Song at Twilight............

601

The Arsenal at Springfield... ............ 564

The Prophecy................................. 601

Maidenhood.............

565 To my Mother..................

602

The Warning...................

567

Excelsior .......

667 HANNAH FLAGG GOULD:

Literary Fame.........

568 Biographical Sketch........................... 603

A Name in the Sand........................... 603

GEORGE BARRELL CHEEVER:

The Pebble and the Acorn................... 604

Biographical Sketch.......

569

The Frost.....................

605

The Benefit of Greek Culture.......... 571

Bunyan in his Cell...

572 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER:

Retributive Providences.....

573 Biographical Sketch...

Step to the Captain's Office and Settle... 574 Palestine.....

607

The English Language...

575 Clerical Oppressors..

608

A Slave-Holding Christianity............. 676 Ichabod...

609

Mand Muller...........

610

RICHARD HILDRETH:

The Wish of To-Day.

612

Biographical Sketch.....

577 Virtue alone Beautiful......................... 613

The Murder of the Soul....

578

The Continental Congress...

579 EMMA C. EMBURY:

Hamilton, Washington, and Jay... 580 Biographical Sketch.......................... 614

James Madison.....

580 The Widow's Wooer........................... 615

Past and Present Politics................... 581 Oh! Tell me not of Lofty Fate............ 616

The Maiden Sat at her Busy Wheel...... 616

JONATHAN LAWRENCE:

Biographical Sketch........

582 PARK BENJAMIN:

Look Aloft.........

682 Biographical Sketch...........

617

The Departed.......

617

ELIZABETH MARGARET CHAND-

How Cheery are the Mariners........ 618

LER:

Sport ......

619

Biographical Sketch.....

582 Press On.......

619

The Slave's Appeal....

583 The Sexton.....

620

The Parting ......

584 A Life of Lettered Ease,............

621

... 606

ROBERT T. CONRAD:

PAGE, FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD: Pags
Biographical Sketa b.........

621 New England's Mountain Child.......... 657
The Pride of Worth...

622 A Mother's Prayer in Illness............... 658
Sonnet,—Thy Kingdom Comel............ 622 Laborare est Orare...........

659

..... 675

........ 644

WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK:

HENRY T. TUCKERMAN:

Biographical Sketch...

634 Biographical Sketch.

Memory....

635

Leisure to be Properly Appreciated...... 675

The Invitation....

636 Enthusiasm-Sympathy..

676

Death of the First-Born..

637

The Poet Campbell...

677

Mary...

................ 678

EDGAR ALLEN POE:

Biographical Sketch.........

638 HENRY WARD BEECHER:

The Raven......

639 Biographical Sketch...........

679

The Burial of Lady Madeline............. 641 The True Object of Preaching ........... 680

Religion ..........

.... 081

CHARLES SUMNER:

God's Forgiveness....

682

Biographical Sketch..

Parental Indulgence...

682

Expenses of War and Education Com-

Children........

683

pared.....

...............

646

The Twenty-Third Psalm.

683

True Glory ......

647

A Christian Man's Life..

684

Progress and Reform.

648

Help the Slave.....

681

Judicial Tribunals .......................... 649

Everyday Christianity.

684

The Holy Catholic Church................ 684

ANDREW P. PEABODY:

A Man's a Man........

885

Biographical Sketch...

650

Cerberus in America.......................... 685

The Miracles and Work of Jesus......... 650

Curier.......

Religion and Business..................... 685

651

A Christian Life...............................

685

The Higher LAW ..............

652

Hypocrites......

................. 686

ALFRED B. STREET:

Giving versus Keeping ..................... 686

Biographical Sketch..

653

The Elect........

................... 686

The Lost Hunter

654

Blindness.......

.......... 686

FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD:

............ 733

RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD:

EDWIN P. WHIPPLE:

Biographical Sketch...

690 Biographical Sketch.

721

American Literature.....

691 The Power of Words........................... 721

Eloquence of Jonathan Edwards......... 693 Wit and Humor ................................ 723

The Literature of Mirth..................... 724

PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE:

Biographical Sketch.........

693 JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND:

Florence Vane......

694
Biographical Sketch....

726

The True Track.....

727

LUCY HOOPER:

Usefulness-Health-Happiness

728

Lines on, by Henry T. Tuckerman....... 695

Biographical Sketch.....

695 ALICE CARY:

Osceola

696

Biographical Sketch..

730

Evening Thoughts....

697 Light and Love...

731

Harvest-Time.......

731

JOHN GODFREY SAXE:

The Broken Household.................. 732

Biographical Sketch..

698 What is Life?...................................... 732

Rhyme of the Rail...

699

I'm Growing Old.......

700 | PHEBE CARY:

Biographical Sketch........................... 733

ELIZABETH HOWELL:

The Christian Woman......................... 733

Biographical Sketch.........

701

Milton's Prayer of Patience................ 701 JAMES ALDRICH:

Biographical Sketch.........

HORACE BINNEY WALLACE:

A Death-Bed............

733

Biographical Sketch.........

702

The Alps.......

703 AMELIA B. WELBY:

The Interior of St. Peter's...

703

Frances Sargent Osgood's Lines on...... 734

The Crater of Vesuvius.....

704

Biographical Sketch...

734

Washington-Hamilton...

705

The Rainbow

735

The Old Maid..

736

A. CLEVELAND COXE:

On seeing an Infant Sleeping on its

Biographical Sketch...

707

Mother's Bosom..........

737

Aaron Cleveland, Life and Works,

(note)......

707

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ:

The Heart's Song..

708

Biographical Sketch..

738

The Chimes of England ................ 709

The Closing Scene..

739

Oh, Walk with God..........

................ 710

The Deserted Road.

Oxford Boat-Race............................... 711

The Emigrants.....

741

Arthur's Song

742

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:

Biographical Sketch.........

712

MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON:

The Heritage......

713

742

Above and Below..

Biographical Sketch....
715

716

Act for Truth..

Lake Champlain...

743

On the Capture of certain Fugitive

Yearnings for Home

To Her Mother..........

Slaves near Washington......... 717
To J. R. Giddings...........

718

J. R. Giddings, Life and Works (note).. 718 GEORGE H. BOKER:

Freedom.......

R. H. Stoddard's Lines on................... 745

Biographical Sketch......

740

719