| 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 |
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| A Bachelor. By Edgar I. Brenner | 31 |
| A City Incident. George Bancroft Griffith | 20 |
| A Noble Mind in a Grand Body | 38 |
| A Paraphrase of Seneca. By Eugene Field | 17 |
| A Picture. By H. Antoine D’Arcy | 15 |
| After Death in Arabia. Sir Edwin Arnold | 8 |
| An Old Temperance Poem | 29 |
| Batyushka. T. B. Aldrich | 15 |
| Ballad of the Bloody Brook. By Edward Everett Hale | 3 |
| Boys, Go Home | 25 |
| Comfort One Another | 44 |
| Crying for the Moon | 35 |
| Death Carol. Walt. Whitman | 19 |
| Evil of Duelling. By Lyman Beecher | 12 |
| Extract from “How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes.” James Russell Lowell | 10 |
| Farmer Kent’s Parson. Margaret Holmes | 40 |
| Found Dead. By Sarah T. Bolton | 26 |
| Good-by Er Howdy-do? J. Whitcomb Riley | 42 |
| Have Patience | 44 |
| If. By Anstiss W. Curtiss | 46 |
| Illusions. By E. A. | 36 |
| In Eulogy of Water. By Emory Storrs | 8 |
| Moral Power of Public Opinion. Daniel Webster | 20 |
| No National Greatness Without Morality. By W. E. Channing | 45 |
| Nobility | 48 |
| Old Boys. George W. Bungay | 39 |
| Our Lady of the Mine | 24 |
| One of the Multitude. By Margaret Veley | 47 |
| “Our Times not Degenerate.” By Chas. Emory Smith | 5 |
| Patient Mercy Jones. By James T. Fields | 13 |
| Remembrance of Wrongs. Rufus Choate | 10 |
| Royalty. Thomas S. Collier | 7 |
| The Skeleton Soldier. Mrs. Findley Braden | 33 |
| The Stones of Manhattan. By Willis Fletcher Johnson | 34 |
| The Two Brothers. By B. E. E. | 9 |
| The King’s Daughters | 21 |
| The Centre of Gravity | 22 |
| The Four Princes. Arthur G. Geoghegan | 23 |
| The Poet’s Political Thoughts. John Greenleaf Whittier | 25 |
| The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh. John Eliot Bowen | 37 |
| The Game of Warriors | 41 |
| The Yellow Sands of Sussex. By Douglas Sladen | 43 |
| The Face Upon the Floor. H. Antoine D’Arcy | 16 |
| The King’s Dust. Harriet Prescott Spofford | 12 |
| The Church and the World. By Mathilda C. Edwards | 27 |
| The Simple Man and the Wise Man. Pollok | 45 |
| The Moan of the Attic. Margaret J. Preston | 4 |
| To Florence Nightingale of England. By John Greenleaf Whittier | 10 |
| Two. By Rose Terry Cooke | 11 |
| Under the Daisies | 32 |
| Waiting for the Mail. By S. W. Foss | 40 |
| War with Big Guns | 30 |
| “Where the Willow Makes a Shade” | 18 |
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