The pleasing task remains of thanking those authors who have so kindly responded to requests for permission to use selections from their works: to President Wilson, for a sonnet from Spring Wild Roses, and for Our Ideal; to Mr. Charles Sangster, for two sonnets from Hesperus; to Mr. John Reade, for two poems from The Prophecy of Merlin; to Mr. Charles Mair, for the scenes from Tecumseh; and to Professor C. G. D. Roberts, for To Winter.
To Miss A. T. Jones, thanks are due for permission to use Abigail Becker, recently published in the Century Magazine. The heroic acts described in this poem seem so wonderful, so greatly superior to woman's strength, even to human strength and endurance, to accomplish, that were it possible to doubt its truthfulness, doubt one certainly would. Nevertheless the poem is not only strictly in accordance with the facts, it is even within and below them.
CONTENTS.
(The Titles of the Selections in Poetry are printed in Italics.)
| NUMBER. | TITLE. | AUTHOR. | PAGE. |
|---|---|---|---|
| I. | King Solomon's Prayer and Blessing at the Dedication of the Temple. | Holy Bible | [33] |
| II. | Invitation. | Holy Bible | [39] |
| III. | The Trial Scene in the "Merchant of Venice." | Shakespeare | [40] |
| IV. | Of Boldness. | Bacon | [53] |
| V. | To Daffodils. | Herrick | [55] |
| VI. | Of Contentedness in all Estates and Accidents. | Taylor | [56] |
| VII. | To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars. | Lovelace | [61] |
| VIII. | Angling. | Walton | [62] |
| IX. | On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. | Milton | [67] |
| X. | Character of Lord Falkland. | Clarendon | [76] |
| XI. | Veni, Creator Spiritus. | Dryden | [81] |
| XII. | Lines printed under the Portrait of Milton. | Dryden | [82] |
| XIII. | Reason. | Dryden | [83] |
| XIV. | On the Love of Country as a Principle of Action. | Steele | [83] |
| XV. | The Golden Scales. | Addison | [88] |
| XVI. | Misjudged Hospitality. | Swift | [93] |
| XVII. | From the "Essay on Man." | Pope | [96] |
| XVIII. | Rule, Britannia. | Thomson | [101] |
| XIX. | The First Crusade. | Hume | [102] |
| XX. | The Bard. | Gray | [111] |
| XXI. | On an Address to the Throne concerning Affairs in America. | Chatham | [116] |
| XXII. | From "The Vicar of Wakefield." | Goldsmith | [127] |
| XXIII. | Meeting of Johnson with Wilkes. | Boswell | [133] |
| XXIV. | The Policy of the Empire in the First Century. | Gibbon | [142] |
| XXV. | On the Attacks upon his Pension. | Burke | [147] |
| XXVI. | Two Eighteenth Century Scenes. | Cowper | [155] |
| XXVII. | From "The School for Scandal." | Sheridan | [159] |
| XXVIII. | The Cotter's Saturday Night. | Burns | [171] |
| XXIX. | The Land o' the Leal. | Lady Nairn | [177] |
| XXX. | The Trial by Combat at the Diamond of the Desert. | Scott | [179] |
| XXXI. | To a Highland Girl. | Wordsworth | [202] |
| XXXII. | France: an Ode. | Coleridge | [205] |
| XXXIII. | Complaint and Reproof. | Coleridge | [208] |
| XXXIV. | The Well of St. Keyne. | Southey | [209] |
| XXXV. | The Isles of Greece. | Byron | [211] |
| XXXVI. | Go where Glory Waits Thee. | Moore | [214] |
| XXXVII. | Dear Harp of My Country. | Moore | [215] |
| XXXVIII. | Come, ye Disconsolate. | Moore | [216] |
| XXXIX. | On a Lock of Milton's Hair. | Hunt | [217] |
| XL. | The Glove and the Lions. | Hunt | [217] |
| XLI. | The Cloud. | Shelley | [219] |
| XLII. | On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. | Keats | [222] |
| XLIII. | On the Grasshopper and the Cricket. | Keats | [222] |
| XLIV. | The Power and Danger of the Cæsars. | De Quincey | [223] |
| XLV. | Unthoughtfulness. | Dr. Arnold | [227] |
| XLVI. | The Bridge of Sighs. | Hood | [234] |
| XLVII. | A Parental Ode to my Son. | Hood | [237] |
| XLVIII. | Metaphysics. | Haliburton | [239] |
| XLIX. | Indian Summer. | Lover | [246] |
| L. | To Helen. | Praed | [246] |
| LI. | Horatius. | Macaulay | [247] |
| LII. | The Raven. | Poe | [258] |
| LIII. | David Swan—A Fantasy. | Hawthorne | [262] |
| LIV. | My Kate. | Mrs. Browning | [270] |
| LV. | A Dead Rose. | Mrs. Browning | [271] |
| LVI. | To the Evening Wind. | Bryant | [272] |
| LVII. | Death of the Protector. | Carlyle | [274] |
| LVIII. | Each and All. | Emerson | [282] |
| LIX. | Waterloo. | Lever | [284] |
| LX. | The Diver. | Lytton | [294] |
| LXI. | The Plague of Locusts. | Newman | [299] |
| LXII. | The Cane-bottom'd Chair. | Thackeray | [306] |
| LXIII. | The Reconciliation. | Thackeray | [308] |
| LXIV. | The Island of the Scots. | Aytoun | [315] |
| LXV. | The Gambling Party. | Beaconsfield | [321] |
| LXVI. | The Pickwickians Disport themselves on Ice. | Dickens | [327] |
| LXVII. | The Hanging of the Crane. | Longfellow | [336] |
| LXVIII. | Earthworms. | Darwin | [342] |
| LXIX. | "As Ships, Becalmed at Eve." | Clough | [346] |
| LXX. | Duty. | Clough | [347] |
| LXXI. | Sonnets. | Heavysege | [349] |
| LXXII. | Dr. Arnold at Rugby. | Dean Stanley | [350] |
| LXXIII. | Ode to the North-east Wind. | Kingsley | [354] |
| LXXIV. | From "The Mill on the Floss." | George Eliot | [356] |
| LXXV. | The Cloud Confines. | Rossetti | [359] |
| LXXVI. | Barbara Frietchie. | Whittier | [361] |
| LXXVII. | Contentment. | Holmes | [364] |
| LXXVIII. | The British Constitution. | Gladstone | [367] |
| LXXIX. | The Lord of Burleigh. | Tennyson | [370] |
| LXXX. | "Break, Break, Break." | Tennyson | [373] |
| LXXXI. | The "Revenge". | Tennyson | [373] |
| LXXXII. | Hervé Riel. | Browning | [378] |
| LXXXIII. | Sonnet. | Dr. Wilson | [383] |
| LXXXIV. | Our Ideal. | Dr. Wilson | [383] |
| LXXXV. | From the Apology of Socrates. | Jowett | [384] |
| LXXXVI. | The Empire of the Cæsars. | Froude | [389] |
| LXXXVII. | Of the Mystery of Life. | Ruskin | [390] |
| LXXXVIII. | The Robin. | Lowell | [397] |
| LXXXIX. | The Old Cradle. | Locker | [400] |
| XC. | Rugby Chapel. | Matt. Arnold | [401] |
| XCI. | In the Orillia Woods. | Sangster | [408] |
| XCII. | Morals and Character in the Eighteenth Century. | Goldwin Smith | [409] |
| XCIII. | A Liberal Education. | Huxley | [412] |
| XCIV. | Too Late. | Mrs. Craik | [416] |
| XCV. | Amor Mundi. | Miss Rossetti | [417] |
| XCVI. | Toujours Amour. | Stedman | [418] |
| XCVII. | England. | Aldrich | [419] |
| XCVIII. | Rococo. | Aldrich | [420] |
| XCIX. | Kings of Men. | John Reade | [420] |
| C. | Thalatta! Thalatta! | John Reade | [421] |
| CI. | The Forsaken Garden. | Swinburne | [422] |
| CII. | A Ballad To Queen Elizabeth of the Spanish Armada. | Dobson | [424] |
| CIII. | Circe. | Dobson | [426] |
| CIV. | Scenes from "Tecumseh." | Mair | [426] |
| CV. | The Return of the Swallows. | Gosse | [437] |
| CVI. | Dawn Angels. | Miss Robinson | [438] |
| CVII. | Le Roi Est Mort. | Miss Robinson | [439] |
| CVIII. | To Winter. | Roberts | [440] |
| CIX. | Abigail Becker. | Miss Jones | [442] |