Who lives with honor, and who calmly dies
With name unstained, in fond remembrance kept,
By friends, by kindred, and by country wept;
Blending, when life is but a faded spell,
An angel’s welcome with the world’s farewell!
Bronson Alcott rested his argument for immortality on the ground of the family affections. “Such strong ties,” he reasoned, “could not have been made merely to be broken.” Let us share his faith, and believe that they are not broken.
INDEX
❦
- Americana, [9]
- American Indians, The, [18]
- Authorship of the Declaration, [23]
- Cabots, The, [12]
- Constitutional Convention, [34]
- Division of Legislative Authority, [36]
- Eminent Domain—National Sovereignty, [25]
- Erikson and Columbus, [11]
- First Legislative Assembly, [21]
- Foreknowledge, [10]
- Gun flints wanted, [31]
- Icelandic Sagas, The, [10]
- Landing of the Pilgrims, [19]
- Master Spirit of the Revolution, [32]
- Name America, The, [13]
- Norse Adventures, The, [9]
- Progress toward Position as a World Power, [16]
- Signing of the Declaration, [22]
- What it cost to discover America, [16]
- Brevities, [593]
- Clever Hits of the Humorists, [276]
- According to Agreement, [284]
- Botanical Misnomer, [288]
- Business Economy, [289]
- Caderousse’s Wager, [283]
- Christmas Chimes, [295]
- Completing a Stanza, [289]
- Democritus at Belfast, [293]
- Double X, [282]
- Frankness, [282]
- His Station, [281]
- Identified, [277]
- Killarney Echo, [280]
- Love of Specie-s, [281]
- Mark Twain convinced, [285]
- Met the Emergency, [282]
- Mistaken Vanity, [276]
- Motto for a Tavern Sign, [286]
- Nestling Shuttlecock, [296]
- New Light, A, [286]
- Not interchangeable, [288]
- Not Rousseau, [281]
- Preferred Beverage, [277]
- Pulpit Wager, [285]
- Remedy, The, [288]
- Rhus Toxicodendron, [285]
- Schweininger’s Thrust, [287]
- Seeing is Believing, [280]
- Significant Change, [287]
- Similar Privilege, [283]
- Toast, A, [276]
- Uncivil Retort, [278]
- Very Long Bill, [279]
- Whittier’s Impromptu, [279]
- Xanthippe vindicated, [290]
- Comical Blunders, [331]
- Aaron and Hur, [347]
- Alleged Danger of Rapid Movement, [346]
- “Beats,” not Turnips, [342]
- Before Railroads, [354]
- Betting on the Lord’s Prayer, [339]
- Both Sides, [335]
- Contradictory Phraseology, [339]
- Couldn’t fool him, [333]
- Desirable Uniformity, [351]
- Direct Information, [351]
- Disinfecting a Telegram, [331]
- Economy of Nature, [349]
- Exchanging Errors, [339]
- False Doctrine, [350]
- Faux Pas, [341]
- German Pickwick, [344]
- Gibson’s Venus, [334]
- Great Mind, A, [338]
- Half-Truths, [337]
- Happening of the Unexpected, [337]
- Happy Thought, A, [332]
- Help from Above, [350]
- Highgate, [334]
- Hopeless Case, [335]
- Individuals, [340]
- Infelicities, [340]
- John the Baptist, [344]
- Minding One’s Business, [351]
- Misplaced Zeal, [353]
- Mistranslation, [352]
- Not a Chiropodist, [345]
- One Form of Vanity, [342]
- Poor Children, [350]
- Psoriasis, [338]
- Quakerese, [343]
- Question of Capacity, [336]
- Reasonable Excuse, [343]
- Sending a Postscript, [343]
- Stiefel, [332]
- “Sufficient” Guide-post, [341]
- Twenty Dunkards, [347]
- Unexpected Reception, [336]
- Unfamiliar Familiarity, [346]
- Wrong Man made a Count, [331]
- Wrong Word, [355]
- Enigmas, [514]
- Archbishop Whately’s, [514]
- Arithmetical Puzzle, [517]
- Charades, [518]
- Fox’s, [514]
- Fugitive Sigh, [516]
- Genealogical Puzzle, [520]
- Hallam’s, [514]
- Macaulay’s, [515]
- Marigold, [520]
- Mitchell’s, [515]
- Palindromic, [516]
- Richard Porson’s, [516]
- Seward’s, [515]
- Sir Hilary’s Prayer, [521]
- What becomes of the Pins, [517]
- Evasions of Ambiguity, [322]
- Acknowledgment, [323]
- Artful Dodger, [323]
- Butchers, The, [327]
- Deceiver, A, [324]
- Difference, A, [324]
- Divine Service, [325]
- Doubtful Compliment, [325]
- Erskine’s Pleasantry, [329]
- Greek Lexicographers, [322]
- Judge like Solomon, [326]
- King or Pretender, [325]
- Legal Question, [326]
- Meeting the Difficulty, [327]
- Mortuary Word-Play, [330]
- Religion of Wise Men, [322]
- Rouge, [324]
- Shifting Responsibility, [329]
- Tough Witness, [328]
- Which?, [324]
- Even Homer sometimes nods, [362]
- Balboa, [370]
- Bishop Ken’s Doxology, [371]
- Bret Harte’s Astronomy, [364]
- Byron’s Greek, [372]
- Cassio or Iago?, [367]
- Cenotaph, [370]
- Chinese Cycle, [363]
- Collins vs. Prior, [369]
- Dante as a Naturalist, [367]
- Gladstone’s Heber, [369]
- In Time of Peace, [368]
- Johnson’s Error, [366]
- Jugurtha, [362]
- Milton as a Botanist, [366]
- Milton’s Italian, [366]
- Mistakes of our Best Writers, [373]
- Racine vs. Voltaire, [363]
- St. Paul to the Ephesians, [371]
- Triple Error, [372]
- Watts vs. Cowper, [364]
- Wolseley’s Mistake, [365]
- Facetiæ, [223]
- Admissible Explanation, [228]
- Already had One, [223]
- Ask Papa, [224]
- Berners Street Hoax, [242]
- Canard, [226]
- Cardinal’s Curse, [241]
- Coldblooded Criticism, [234]
- Companion Pictures, [236]
- Compliant Courts, [237]
- Eye of the Fly, [225]
- Graduate, The, [233]
- High Art Advertising, [227]
- High Diddle Diddle, [245]
- Jack and Jill, [244]
- Juxtaposition, [236]
- Legal Dilemma, [238]
- Mary’s Little Lamb, [245]
- Meeting, The, [246]
- Mr. Evarts’s Jocularity, [230]
- Mock Heroics, [234]
- Modern Judge on Portia, [237]
- Niagara, [236]
- Old Cock, The, [223]
- Poet-Farmer in a Fix, [231]
- Point of View, [244]
- Relative Size, [240]
- Second- or Third-Rate, [229]
- Sothern’s Practical Joke, [227]
- Too mild, [224]
- Unwilling Willingness, [235]
- Venerable Joke, [232]
- Vicissim, [244]
- Virgil’s Æneid dissected, [239]
- Worse than Worst, [231]
- Wounded Amazon, [239]
- Yale’s Way, [226]
- Falsities and Fallacies, [383]
- Anglo-Saxon as a Race Term, [413]
- Bacon Humbug, [398]
- Burning of Rome, [411]
- Don’t give up the Ship, [388]
- False Ascription, [383]
- Finding of Moses, [386]
- Good Old Times, [393]
- Guillotin, [416]
- Historic Phrase Disputed, [387]
- L. E. L. assumes a Virtue, [410]
- Lentulus Letter, [384]
- Maelstrom, [388]
- Mummy Wheat, [413]
- Penn Treaty, [391]
- Pocahontas, [390]
- Scott’s Fabrications, [385]
- Shakespeare’s Defiance of Historical Fact, [394]
- Specific Gravity, [389]
- Stratford-on-Avon, [406]
- William Tell, [386]
- Famous Beauties, [567]
- Female Poisoners, [583]
- Finis Coronat Opus, [604]
- At Last, [612]
- Auld Lang Syne, [613]
- Avoidance, [623]
- Burial Places of Europe, [604]
- Death, [628]
- Faith, Hope and Love, [627]
- Goethe’s Last Words, [622]
- Guizot’s Confession of Faith, [620]
- Immortality, [619]
- Imperator Augustus, [624]
- In a Rose Garden, [614]
- Into the World and out, [626]
- Mary Stuart’s Prayer, [625]
- No Repairs, [627]
- Now I lay me, [615]
- Old Hickory’s Death-bed, [624]
- Patientia, [626]
- Patrick Henry’s Legacy, [622]
- Thanatopsis, [618]
- Thiers’s Faith, [622]
- First Things, [125]
- Anæsthesia, [132]
- Anno Domini, [143]
- Anthracite, [133]
- Auld Kirk, [140]
- Bank-notes, [143]
- Beer, [140]
- Billiards, [147]
- Boston “Merchantman”, [148]
- Boycott, [139]
- Cardinal’s Red Hat, [154]
- Cheap Postage, [147]
- Coffee, [146]
- College Papers, [129]
- Damnatus, [129]
- Dark Horse, [157]
- Degree of M.D., [150]
- Dollar, [149]
- Emblematic Eagle, [137]
- Equal Mark, [154]
- Erasure, [142]
- Eve’s Mirror, [145]
- First American Book, [128]
- First Blood of the Revolution, [125]
- First Christian Hymn, [152]
- First Duel in New England, [126]
- First Gold found in California, [158]
- First Marriage in American Colonies, [125]
- First Person cremated in America, [127]
- First Riddle, [138]
- First United States Bank, [165]
- Flag of the United States, [162]
- Gringo, [142]
- Honeymoon, [141]
- John Bull, [138]
- Machine Politics, [132]
- Marriage in Church, [149]
- Millions for Defence, [131]
- Mother Goose and Mary’s Lamb, [152]
- National Political Conventions, [163]
- Oldest Buildings, [126]
- Oldest Declaration, [143]
- Oldest Living Things, [166]
- Old Hickory, [137]
- Old Proverb, An, [155]
- Old-time Journalism, [127]
- Order of the Garter, [146]
- Petroleum, [134]
- Photography, [135]
- Pioneer Furrier, [128]
- Postage Stamps, [148]
- Punctuation, [144]
- Sleeping-cars, [144]
- Stereoscope, [156]
- Suspension Bridge, [130]
- Theatrical Deadhead, [148]
- Thimble, [142]
- Title of Reverend, [150]
- Umbrella, [153]
- Virginia Abolitionist, [130]
- Vivisection, [139]
- Flashes of Repartee, [247]
- Bearding the Lion, [257]
- Best for her, [254]
- Boomerang, A, [252]
- Condemned Jester, [261]
- Courteous Retort, [256]
- Date of Possession, [250]
- Decay’s Effacement, [253]
- Declined with Thanks, [256]
- Distinction with a Difference, [257]
- Divine Knowledge, [259]
- Each his Own Way, [251]
- Ecclesiastical Tit-for-tat, [254]
- Even Chances, [255]
- Fitting Answers, [247]
- Force and Argument, [260]
- Future Provision, [257]
- Hereditary Transmission, [247]
- Last Chance, [259]
- Left-handed Compliments, [248]
- Like Topsy, [249]
- Limitation of Authority, [248]
- Marjorie, [262]
- Marriage in Heaven, [260]
- Maternity, [250]
- Meeting an Emergency, [255]
- Nature’s Painting, [252]
- No Jury then and there, [251]
- Not beyond Reach, [248]
- Old Dominion, [250]
- Opposite Effects, [249]
- Quaint Reproof, [259]
- Quick-witted Damsel, [255]
- Relationship, [253]
- Sumner’s Legal Learning, [258]
- Walk vs. Conversation, [258]
- Woman’s Revenge, A, [254]
- Forecasts, [187]
- Hits of the Satirists, [299]
- American Eagle, [303]
- Bancroft as a Historian, [305]
- Battle Prayer, [299]
- Beaconsfield, [301]
- Burns’s Impromptu, [302]
- Carlyle as a Masquerader, [321]
- Compliments to Boswell, [305]
- Drama as an Instrumentality, [304]
- Forbidden Fruit, [305]
- Imitation of the Commentators, [317]
- Junius on the Duke of Bedford, [313]
- Lardner’s Mistaken Prediction, [306]
- Lawyers and Playwrights, [307]
- Pens dipped in Gall, [311]
- Plain Speaking, [310]
- Prince Regent, [303]
- Puffery Extraordinary, [301]
- Ruskin on the Bicycle, [316]
- Samuel Rogers, [312]
- Satire, [321]
- Serious Interruption, [316]
- Silly Newspaper Queries, [300]
- Stanhope, [310]
- Statesman as a Scientist, [306]
- Sylvan Reverie, [318]
- Thanks for Victory, [299]
- Wordsworth’s Horse, [318]
- Honeyed Phrase of Compliment, [550]
- Ideal Physical Proportions, [560]
- Legendary Lore, [417]
- Acadia, [441]
- Amulets and Talismans, [451]
- Chien d’Or, [446]
- Christmas Observances, [454]
- Circassian Legend, [437]
- Grouchy at Waterloo, [438]
- Ilium Fuit, [417]
- Iron Maiden, [432]
- Letter M, [430]
- Macaulay in Role of Pickpocket, [419]
- Marred Destiny, A, [417]
- Marseillaise, The, [434]
- Maximilian at Queretaro, [447]
- Minister’s Messenger, A, [420]
- Mystery of the Dauphin, [425]
- Robinson Crusoe, [418]
- Shakespeare and Burbage, [436]
- Sistine Madonna, [428]
- Thieves’ Market, [449]
- Tobacco in Diplomacy, [422]
- Value of Practical Knowledge, [433]
- What Language did Jesus speak?, [457]
- Wolfe at Quebec, [443]
- Mazes of Obscurity, [554]
- Miscellanea Curiosa, [197]
- Age of Niagara Falls, [204]
- Ant’s Habits, The, [213]
- As you read it, [208]
- Bismarck in the Language of the Spirits, [204]
- Bolingbroke’s Favorite Desk, [198]
- Bottled Tears, [207]
- Caroline Herschel’s Many Years, [214]
- Circumstantial Evidence, [209]
- City in Darkness, [217]
- Constitution of the Early Churches, [214]
- Cromwell’s Grace, [202]
- Distant World, A, [205]
- Flowering Dogwood, [199]
- Fourth of March, [198]
- Franklin’s Brown Coat, [211]
- Graffiti at Pompeii, [218]
- He couldn’t have shot him, [202]
- Hero Worship, [212]
- Home, Sweet Home, [215]
- Importance of Punctuation, [207]
- Itemized Bill, [220]
- Jack Sprat, [211]
- Latin Pronunciation, [221]
- Little Beggar’s Charity, [210]
- Long Name, A, [212]
- Loyalty to Prince, Disloyalty to Self, [197]
- Marriage in Undress, [216]
- Matter of Form, A, [206]
- None such, [213]
- Ocean Depths, [203]
- Offensiveness punished, [200]
- Pleasant Reading, [203]
- Powwow, [199]
- Premonitory Caution, [201]
- Prevention better than Cure, [222]
- Queer Parliamentary Enactment, [197]
- Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes?, [213]
- Realism, [201]
- Ropes made of Women’s Hair, [200]
- Singular Expedient, [197]
- Sources of History, [212]
- Story of Witchcraft, [208]
- Superstition, [220]
- Sweet Auburn, [206]
- Tools of the Pyramid Builders, [205]
- Misquotation, [380]
- Missing the Point of the Jokes, [356]
- Our Historic Characters, [47]
- Our Language, [90]
- Alliterative Tribute to Swinburne, [101]
- Alphabet, The, [90]
- Alphabetical Fancies, [102]
- Americanisms, [92]
- Aspirate, The, [100]
- Changes in Pronunciation, [110]
- Collects, The, [107]
- Compressing the Alphabet, [101]
- Dream of a Spelling-Bee, [95]
- Either and Neither, [108]
- Guess, [123]
- If, [109]
- Index Expurgatorius, [112]
- Its, [107]
- Legal Verbosity, [106]
- Lingua Anglicana, [90]
- Longest Words, The, [95]
- Message from England, [123]
- Metaphorical Conceits, [118]
- Palindromes, [103]
- Perplexing Word, A, [98]
- Philological Contrarieties, [99]
- Phonetic Changes, [91]
- Power of Short Words, [105]
- Proper Names, [111]
- Rough, [108]
- Spelling Exercises, [93]
- Spelling Lesson, [94]
- Stilted Scientific Phraseology, [116]
- Trifles, [97]
- Verbal Conceits, [99]
- Vulcan, [101]
- Words that will not be put down, [110]
- Words Wrong, Pronunciation Right, [104]
- Our National Airs, [39]
- Our Wonderlands, [78]
- Parallel Passages, [462]
- Prototypes, [168]
- Ancestry, [172]
- Best Service, The, [171]
- Bill of Fare, [172]
- Chestnut, [175]
- Christmas-Tree, [184]
- Cinderella, [173]
- Crossing the Bar, [174]
- Expressive Phrase, [176]
- Figaro, [169]
- Fourth Estate, [174]
- Guilds of London, [180]
- Malaprops, The, [169]
- Mark Twain’s Plagiary, [171]
- Monteith, [182]
- Milton’s Indebtedness, [176]
- Ne Sutor, [174]
- Next to Godliness, [177]
- Overstrained Politeness, [177]
- Pen and Sword, [170]
- Platform, [186]
- Punchinello, [178]
- Rip Van Winkle, [182]
- Setting up to knock down, [180]
- Shallows and Deeps, [185]
- Standing Egg, [179]
- Shylock, [168]
- Workmen’s Strikes, [179]
- Stretches of Poetic License, [374]
- Toasts and Mottoes, [596]
- American Commonwealth, [597]
- Army, [598]
- Christian Charity, [601]
- City, [599]
- Erskine’s, [603]
- Flag of our Union, [598]
- Good-night, [603]
- Independence Day, [596]
- Law, [599]
- Medicine, [600]
- Modern Transportation, [602]
- Navy, [598]
- Our Country, [596]
- Our Dead, [603]
- Pilgrim Fathers, [596]
- President of the United States, [597]
- Press, [602]
- Pulpit, [599]
- Sexual Affinity, [601]
- Temperance, [602]
- Woman, [600]
- Voices from God’s Acre, [523]
- Alford, [524]
- André, [530]
- Arthur Winter, [538]
- Bayard Taylor, [543]
- Beust, [529]
- Bismarck, [546]
- Blue and Gray, [525]
- Booth, [524]
- Cheyne, [530]
- Condell and Heminge, [535]
- Corwin, [533]
- Croly, [523]
- Eleanor Gwyn, [533]
- George Eliot, [526]
- Grateful Memory, [544]
- Harriet Mill, [526]
- Harvard, [529]
- Hibernicism, [533]
- Horace, [523]
- Husbandman, [548]
- Huxley, [530]
- Indian Apostle, [531]
- In Mt. Auburn, [538]
- Johnson, [528]
- Keats, [543]
- Klaes, [534]
- Lady Mansel, [537]
- Little Ruth, [537]
- Longfellow and Brooks, [540]
- Palgrave, [540]
- Plato, [523]
- Prince Christian, [532]
- Queen Elizabeth, [527]
- Salvino Armato, [535]
- Santa Croce, [545]
- Scott, [527]
- Shakespeare’s Doctor, [536]
- Short Epitaphs, [544]
- Sir John Franklin, [542]
- Stevenson, [531]
- Webster, [524]
- Wit of the Epigrammatists, [496]
- Appropriate Petition, [503]
- Bacon and Shakespeare, [499]
- Bar Sinister, [512]
- Better Late than Never, [510]
- Bulwer Lytton, [501]
- Busy Bee, [513]
- Changed Conditions, [509]
- Communism, [513]
- Complimentary, [501]
- Contrast, [504]
- Crier, [502]
- Debtor and Creditor, [507]
- Distinction with a Difference, [509]
- Division of Labor, [504]
- Double Prize, [502]
- Dryness, [507]
- Ended in Smoke, [507]
- Expectancy, [503]
- Fitness, [500]
- Four Georges, [496]
- Four Kinds, [510]
- Friend in Need, [512]
- Gamester’s Marriage, [509]
- Gay with One Leg, [498]
- Ghosts, [509]
- Glen Urquhart, [511]
- Hic, Hæc, Hoc, [501]
- History, [499]
- Horse-Breaker and Gray Mare, [505]
- Huijgens, [508]
- Jenner’s Quacks, [498]
- Jowett, [496]
- Keenness of Edge, [503]
- Ladies, The, [497]
- Lis et Victoria Mutua, [505]
- Loud Snoring, [499]
- Mackintosh, [506]
- Never cut themselves, [498]
- None missing, [510]
- Not conclusive, [503]
- Not distinguishable, [512]
- Pretty Girl who lent a Candle, [511]
- Quodcunque Infundis Acescit, [511]
- Retaliation, [512]
- Revenons à nos Moutons, [504]
- Sarcastic, [497]
- Spirits, [513]
- Three Sportive Fishers, [508]
- Two Watering Places, [511]
- Washington, [506]
- War and Peace, [502]
- Welsh Poets, [500]
- Whewell, [496]
- Why no Last Will, [508]
- Winning Team, [513]
- Word-Twisting by the Punsters, [263]