STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 26.
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| The Sacrifice of Abraham. N. P. Willis | 3 |
| The Angel and the Shepherds. (From Ben Hur). Lew Wallace | 5 |
| The Dead Student. Will M. Carleton | 6 |
| Henry W. Grady. James Whitcomb Riley | 7 |
| The Fratricide. John Greenleaf Whittier | 8 |
| Back from the War. T. De Witt Talmage | 10 |
| The Luck of Edenhall. H. W. Longfellow | 10 |
| That Waltz of Von Weber. Nora Perry | 11 |
| Water and Rum. John B. Gough | 12 |
| The Boy who helps his Mother | 13 |
| Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette | 14 |
| Miriam’s Song. Thomas Moore | 14 |
| Toussaint L’Ouverture. Wendell Phillips | 15 |
| The Engineer’s Story. Eugene J. Hall | 16 |
| The Influence of Woman. Webster | 16 |
| His Mother’s Songs | 17 |
| Mother’s Doughnuts. Charles F. Adams | 18 |
| Useless Philosophers | 18 |
| The Grave. H. W. Longfellow | 19 |
| I wouldn’t—Would you? Anonymous | 19 |
| Despair. Dow, Jr. | 20 |
| The Wife’s Appeal | 21 |
| Praying for Shoes. Paul Hamilton Hayne | 21 |
| The New South. H. W. Grady | 23 |
| Lincoln. James R. Lowell | 24 |
| The Lady of the Rock. Thomas Dunn English | 25 |
| A Ballad of East and West. Yussuf | 27 |
| The Light from over the Range | 28 |
| Charlie Wong. H. Antoine D’Arcy | 30 |
| The Indian’s Tale. John Greenleaf Whittier | 31 |
| Cities. Anonymous | 32 |
| The Leper. N. P. Willis | 33 |
| The Death of the Count Armaniac. A. Mary F. Robinson | 36 |
| One Thing at a Time | 36 |
| Song of the Mountaineers. T. Buchanan Read | 37 |
| The Battle Hymn. Theodore Körner | 38 |
| A Beautiful Death. Eli Perkins | 38 |
| Annie’s Ticket | 39 |
| Bad Prayers. Bronson Alcott | 39 |
| Mattie Stephenson. Anonymous | 40 |
| The Two Pictures | 40 |
| Where God’s Hand is Seen. Captain Jack Crawford | 42 |
| The Sway of the Senses | 43 |
| Burial of the Minnisink. H. W. Longfellow | 44 |
| Mary O’Connor, the Volunteer’s Wife. Mary A. Denison | 45 |
| The Preservation of the Union. Daniel Webster | 45 |
| Our Women Heroes. Kate Brownlee Sherwood | 46 |
| The Prayers of all Living Creatures | 46 |
| Wisdom Dearly Purchased. Edmund Burke | 47 |
| Keep Pegging Away | 48 |
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