CONTENTS BY TITLES.

[PREFACE.]

[Introduction]

[VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS.]

[A Prayer]

[He Prayeth Best]

[Our Morality on Trial]

[Sympathy]

[Mercy]

[Results and Duties of Man's Supremacy]

[Justice to the Brute Creation]

[Can they Suffer?]

[Growth of Humane Ideas]

[Moral Lessons]

[Duty to Animals not long recognized]

[Natural Rights]

["Dumb"]

[Upward]

[Care for the Lowest]

[Trust]

[Say Not]

[See, through this Air]

[The Right must win]

[Animated Nature]

[Animal Happiness]

[No Grain of Sand]

[Humanity, Mercy, and Benevolence]

[Living Creatures]

[Nothing Alone]

[Man's Rule]

[Dumb Souls]

[Virtue]

[Little by Little]

[Loyalty]

[Animals and Human Speech]

[Pity]

[Learn from the Creatures]

[Pain to Animals]

[What might have been]

[Village Sounds]

[Buddhism]

[Old Hindoo]

[Truth]

[Our Pets]

[Egyptian Ritual]

[Brotherhood]

[A Birthday Address]

[Suffering]

[To Lydia Maria Child]

[Vivisection]

[Nobility]

[Acts of Mercy]

[The Good Samaritan]

[Love]

[Children at School]

[Membership of the Church]

[Feeling for Animals]

[Heroic]

[Effect of Cruelty]

[Aspiration]

[The Poor Beetle]

[The Consummation]

[Persevere]

[A Vision]

[Speak Gently]

[Questions]

[Heroes]

[For the Sake of the Innocent Animals]

[Ring Out]

[Fame and Duty]

[No Ceremony]

[True Leaders]

[Be kind to Dumb Creatures]

[Action]

["In Him we Live"]

[Firm and Faithful]

[Heart Service]

[Exulting Sings]

[In Holy Books]

[The Bell of Atri]

[Among the Noblest]

[The Fallen Horse]

[The Horse]

[The Birth of the Horse]

[To his Horse]

[Sympathy for Horse and Hound]

[The Blood Horse]

[The Cid and Bavieca]

[The King of Denmark's Ride]

[Do you know?]

[The Bedouin's Rebuke]

[From "The Lord of Butrago"]

["Bay Billy"]

[The Ride of Collins Graves]

[Paul Revere's Ride]

[Sheridan's Ride]

[Good News to Aix]

[Dying in Harness]

[Plutarch's Humanity]

[The Horses of Achilles]

[The War Horse]

[Pegasus in Pound]

[The Horse]

[From "The Foray"]

[On Landseer's Picture, "Waiting for Master"]

[THE BIRDS]

[The Waterfowl]

[Sea Fowl]

[The Sandpiper]

[The Birds of Killingworth]

[The Magpie]

[The Mocking-Bird]

[Early Songs and Sounds]

[The Sparrow's Note]

[The Glow-Worm]

[St. Francis to the Birds]

[Wordsworth's Skylark]

[Shelley's Skylark]

[Hogg's Skylark]

[The Sweet-Voiced Quire]

[A Caged Lark]

[The Woodlark]

[Keats's Nightingale]

[Lark and Nightingale]

[Flight of the Birds]

[A Child's Wish]

[The Humming-Bird]

[The Humming-Bird's Wedding]

[The Hen and the Honey-Bee]

[Song of the Robin]

[Sir Robin]

[The Dear Old Robins]

[Robins quit the Nest]

[Lost—Three Little Robins]

[The Terrible Scarecrow and Robins]

[The Song Sparrow]

[The Field Sparrow]

[The Sparrow]

[Piccola and Sparrow]

[Little Sparrow]

[The Swallow]

[The Emperor's Bird's-Nest]

[To a Swallow building under our Eaves]

[The Swallow, the Owl, and the Cock's Shrill Clarion in the "Elegy"]

[The Statue over the Cathedral Door]

[The Bird let Loose]

[The Brown Thrush]

[The Golden-Crowned Thrush]

[The Thrush]

[The Aziola]

[The Marten]

[Judge You as You Are]

[Robert of Lincoln]

[My Doves]

[The Doves of Venice]

[Song of the Dove]

[What the Quail says]

[Chick-a-dee-dee]

[The Linnet]

[Hear the Woodland Linnet]

[The Parrot]

[The Common Question]

[Why not do it, Sir, To-day]

[To a Redbreast]

[Phoebe]

[To the Stork]

[The Storks of Delft]

[The Pheasant]

[The Herons of Elmwood]

[Walter von der Vogelweid]

[The Legend of the Cross-Bill]

[Pretty Birds]

[The Little Bird sits]

[The Living Swan]

[The Stormy Petrel]

[To the Cuckoo]

[Birds at Dawn]

[Evening Songs]

[Little Brown Bird]

[Life's Sign]

[A Bird's Ministry]

[Of Birds]

[Birds in Spring]

[The Canary in his Cage]

[Who stole the Bird's-Nest]

[Who stole the Eggs]

[What the Birds say]

[The Wren's Nest]

[On Another's Sorrow]

[The Shepherd's Home]

[The Wood-Pigeon's Home]

[The Shag]

[The Lost Bird]

[The Birds must know]

[The Bird King]

[Shadows of Birds]

[The Bird and the Ship]

[A Myth]

[THE DOG.]

[Cuvier on the Dog]

[A Hindoo Legend]

[Ulysses and Argus]

[Tom]

[William of Orange saved by his Dog]

[The Bloodhound]

[Helvellyn]

[Llewellyn and his Dog]

[Looking for Pearls]

[Rover]

[To my Dog "Blanco"]

[The Beggar and his Dog]

[Don]

[Geist's Grave]

[On the Death of a Favorite Old Spaniel]

[Epitaph in Grey Friars' Churchyard]

[From an Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog]

[The Dog]

[Johnny's Private Argument]

[The Harper]

["Flight"]

[The Irish Wolf-Hound]

[Six Feet]

[There's Room enough for all]

[His Faithful Dog]

[The Faithful Hound]

[MISCELLANEOUS.]

[The Spider's Lesson]

[The Spider and Stork]

[The Homestead at Evening]

[The Cattle of a Hundred Farms]

[Cat-Questions]

[The Newsboy's Cat]

[The Child and her Pussy]

[The Alpine Sheep]

[Little Lamb]

[Cowper's Hare]

[Turn thy Hasty Foot aside]

[The Worm turns]

[Grasshopper and Cricket]

[The Honey-Bees]

[Cunning Bee]

[An Insect]

[The Chipmunk]

[Mountain and Squirrel]

[To a Field-Mouse]

[A Sea-Shell]

[The Chambered Nautilus]

[Hiawatha's Brothers]

[Unoffending Creatures]

[September]

[The Lark]

[The Swallow]

[Returning Birds]

[The Birds]

[Thrush]

[Linnet]

[Nightingale]

[Songsters]

[Mohammedanism—The Cattle]

[The Spider and the Dove]

[The Young Doves]

[Forgiven]

[Prayers]

[Dumb Mouths]

[The Parsees]

[Hindoo]

[The Tiger]

[Value of Animals]

[Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]

[INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TITLES.]

[INDEX OF AUTHORS.]