No. 2

Editorials		97-100
The Sign of the Cross	Wilson Barrett	101
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold	William Wordsworth	105
"Gentlemen, the King"	Robert Barr	106
The Only Way	Charles Dickens	111
The New Americanism	Henry Watterson	114
A Plea for Patriotism	Benjamin Harrison	116
Fame	Ben Jonson	117
The Independence of Cuba	J. M. Thurston	118
The Children of the Poor	Theodore Parker	122
Burns	George William Curtis	124
A Night in Ste. Pilagie	Mary H. Catherwood	127
The Call of the Wild	Jack London	131
The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope	135
In the Toils of the Enemy	John S. Wood	139
The Advocate's First Plea	George Barr McCutcheon	144
The Tell-Tale Heart	Edgar Allan Poe	148
The Trial of Ben Thomas	H. S. Edwards	151
Even This Shall Pass Away	Theodore Tilton	155
On Milton	John Dryden	156
Richelieu	Bulwer Lytton	157
Flower in the Crannied Wall	Lord Tennyson	161
The Burgomaster's Death (from "The Bells")		162
Jathrop Lathrop's Cow	Anna Warner	167
The Hunchback	Sheridan Knowles	172
Love	Shakespeare	180
Last Speech of William McKinley		181
For Dear Old Yale	James Langston	184
The Lance of Kanana		189