The Maniac.

Marie Antoinette.

Song of the Shirt.

A Poet's Miseries..

Account Current.

Speech of Meagher.

The Whiskers...

The Village Blacksmith..

The Sailor Boy's Dream..

Pledge with Wine..

The Bells of Shandon.

Joan of Arc.

Sheridan's Ride...

Sam Weller's Valentine

Battle of Fontenoy.

The Raven.....

Caudle lends an Umbrella..

The Famine....

The Goddess of Slang..

Hotspur's Description of a Fop

Eva......

Scott and the Veteran..

Imperishability of Great Examples.

Socrates Snooks......

The Song of the Forge.

Oberon's Vision...

Death of Little Joe..

Outcasts

The Blue and Gray.

Nobody's Child...

Men always fit for Freedom.

The Shores of Tennessee..

The Brigade at Fontenoy.

Which....... . . . .

Marc Antony's Oration

Sale of Old Bachelors..

The Mountain Forge..

Necessity of Religion.

Little Jim....

Monsieur Tonson.

.N.P. Willis.

.Lamartine.

.Lord Byron.

67

69

.Lewis. 70

.Edmund Burke. 71

Thomas Hood.

72

75

77

78

80

83

84

86

89

Francis Mahony.

.De Quincey.

.T. B. Read.

90

92

94

. Charles Dickens.

Thomas Davis.

97

.Edgar A. Poc. 100

.Douglas Jerrold. 103

.H. W. Longfellow. 106

111

.Shakespeare. 112

113

Bayard Taylor. 115

.Edward Everett. 117

117

119

..Shakespeare. 121

Charles Dickens. 122

125

.F.M. Finch. 127

.R. H. Child. 129

T. B. Macaulay. 130

131

B. Dowling 133

137

.Shakespeare. 137

140

.T. Irwin. 141

144

146

147

.H. W. Longfellow.

.Dimond.

PAGE

62

65

66

Victor Hugo.

PAGE

232

Shakespeare. 233

.A. S. Stephens.

234

T. B. Aldrich. 238

239

T. B. Read. 241

243

245

..Daniel Webster. 247

.Schiller. 248

253

Samuel Lover. 255

260

T. F. Meagher. 261

262

..J. G. Percival. 264

265

267

268

.H. W. Longfellow. 269

272

.Alfred Tennyson. 274

276

.J. G. Whittier. 277

279

Frances Brown. 280

282

283

285

Charles Phillips. 287

Thomas Moore. 287

Advice to a Young Lawyer..

Eloquence of the East and the West.

The Bridal of Malahide....

Nic Van Stan....

Dead in the Street..

Borrioboola Gha...

Patriotism.....

Too Late..

Love and Age..

The Sister of Charity.

Richter's Dream.

Over the River..

Babie Bell

The Light of Home.

Touissant L'Overture..

Wounded

Darkness..

The Gladiator

The Will and the Way..

The September Gale.

Sally Dilliard..

Gelert.

Bingen..

The Drunkard's Daughter..

The Public Informer..

Goody Blake and Harry Gill.

John Burns of Gettysburg.

Skipper Ireson's Ride...

Queen Mab......

Eulogy on Lafayette.

The Frenchman and the Pigs..

The Roman Twins..

CONTENTS.

Invective against Warren Hastings..

Gift of Tritemius. ....

The Doom of MacGregor.

Falstaff's Description of his Soldiers.

St. Patrick's Day in America...

Spartacus to the Roman Envoys.

Edinburgh after Flodden.

The Knight's Toast....

The Poor Boy's Soliloquy.

Free Love..

Success.....

A Modest Wit..

Bill and Joe.

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307

.R. N. Maffitt. 308

.Gerald Griffin. 309

.J. G. Saxe. 311

313

314

T. F. Meagher. 317

.Fitzhugh Ludlow. 318

319

Gerald Griffin. 321

323

.Nancy A. W. Priest.

T. B. Aldrich.

$24

326

Mrs. Hale. 327

Wendell Phillips. 328

330

.Lord Byron. 332

Geo. Croly. 335

J. G. Saxe.

O. W. Holmes.

336

838

889

.H. C. Jones.

W. R. Spencer. £42

Mrs. Norton. 343

345

Curran. 347

Wordsworth. 347

350

.J. G. Whittier. 353

..Shakespeare. 355

.Charles Sprague. 356

358

.Duganne. 359

R. B. Sheridan. 361

362

James Hogg. 364

.Shakespeare. 366

367

368

.Aytoun. 370

375

.Fanny Fern. 376

378

Victor Hugo. 379

380

.O. W. Holmes. 381

PAGE

383

.Thomas Hood. 384 +

386

388

.Jones. 389

Shakespeare. 391

392

.Daniel Webster. 393

395

.Edgar A. Poe.

397

400

Geo. Wither. 400

..Shakespeare. 402

.Edmund Burke. 403

405

407

408

.Demosthenes, 409

..Lord Byron. 411

·Browning. 413

W. C. Bryant. 414

Chauncey Colton. 415

Adelaide Procter. 417

420

421

.Alfred Tennyson. 422

Charles Dickens. 422

J. T. Trowbridge. 424

.Jean Ingelow. 425

.Shakespeare. 430

.Fanny Fern. 431

O. W. Holmes. 432

.Thomas Hood. 434

435

.Disraeli. 437

438

W. C. Bryant. 441

.Peter Pindar. 443

.Francis Bennoch. 444

.Sir Walter Scott.

Cicero. 446

447

H. W. Longfellow. 449

.J. G. Saxe. 451

Charles Phillips. 452

453