STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 24.
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| Concepcion De Arguello. Bret Harte | 3 |
| Eulogium on South Carolina. Robert Y. Hayne | 5 |
| The Brewing of Soma. John G. Whittier | 6 |
| The Wee, Wee Bairnie | 7 |
| Destiny. T. B. Aldrich | 8 |
| Without Me | 8 |
| South Carolina and Massachusetts. Daniel Webster | 9 |
| Burglar Bill | 10 |
| What My Lover Said. Homer Greene | 11 |
| The Curse to Labor. T. V. Powderly | 12 |
| The New Hail Columbia. Oliver Wendell Holmes | 13 |
| Reuben James. James Jeffrey Roche | 13 |
| Reply to Mr. Webster. Robert Y. Hayne | 14 |
| Vas Marriage a Failure? Charles Follen Adams | 15 |
| The Soul’s Farewell to the Body. Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 16 |
| A Woman’s Heart | 16 |
| The Minstrel’s Curse. Ludwig Uhland | 17 |
| Visions of Joan of Arc and Bishop of Beauvais. De Quincey | 18 |
| The Old Cornet Player. J. P. Bocock | 20 |
| Speech of Icilius to the Romans. Alfieri | 21 |
| The Watch of Boon Island. Mrs. Celia Thaxter | 21 |
| Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne. Daniel Webster | 23 |
| To Ireland. J. B. Killen | 24 |
| Christ Not a Christian. A. D. | 25 |
| The Forging of the Anchor. S. Ferguson | 26 |
| Speech of Shrewsbury before Queen Elizabeth. Schiller | 26 |
| And then? James Jeffrey Roche | 28 |
| The Tell Tale Heart. Edgar Allen Poe | 28 |
| The Convict’s Hopeless Lot. An Ex-convict | 30 |
| The Star of Bethlehem. Henry Kirke White | 31 |
| Success in Life. James A. Garfield | 31 |
| The Hindoo’s Search for Truth | 32 |
| The Spiritualist. L. W. | 33 |
| Last Charge of Ney. J. T. Headley | 35 |
| The Song of the Headlight. Hardy Jackson | 36 |
| One of the Signers. John Greenleaf Whittier | 37 |
| Apparitions. Thomas Carlyle | 38 |
| Farewell to Nature. Thomas Gordon Hake | 39 |
| Jim. James Whitcomb Riley | 40 |
| Grant’s Strategy. Judge Veazey | 41 |
| Just for To-day | 42 |
| A Hero of the Tropics. I. Edgar Jones | 42 |
| Priests unto God. Rose Terry Cooke | 43 |
| The Mayflower. Edward Everett | 44 |
| The Veiled Statue at Sais. Friedrich Schiller | 45 |
| Death of Hamilton. Eliphalet Nott | 46 |
| The Soldier’s Return. Susanna Blamire | 47 |
| Vicissitudes of 1849. Horace Greeley | 47 |
| Washington. Phillips | 48 |
The selections from Bret
Harte, Whittier, Aldrich and Mrs. Celia Thaxter are used by kind permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York.