INTRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES BY

Thomas B. Reed,Hamilton Wright Mabie,
Lorenzo Sears,Jonathan P. Dolliver,
Champ Clark,Edward Everett Hale,
Albert Ellery Bergh.

NOTE—A large number of the most distinguished speakers of this country and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches for this Library. These speakers include Whitelaw Reid, William Jennings Bryan, Henry van Dyke, Henry M Stanley, Newell Dwight Hillis, Joseph Jefferson, Sir Henry Irving, Arthur T. Hadley, John D. Long, David Starr Jordan, and many others of equal note.


CONTENTS

VOLUME II

PAGE
Eggleston, George Cary
Southern Literature[423]
Eliot, Charles William
Harvard and Yale[427]
Eliot, Samuel A.
The Source of Song and Story[431]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
England, Mother of Nations[437]
The Memory of Burns[439]
War[442]
The Wisdom of China[445]
Evarts, William Maxwell
International Arbitration[448]
The Republic and Its Outlook[452]
The French Alliance[457]
Tribute to Herbert Spencer[462]
The Classics in Education[465]
Liberty Enlightening the World[469]
Ewing, Thomas C.
Ohio and the Northwest[474]
Farrar, Frederic William
Poet and Painter[479]
Fellows, John R.
North and South[482]
Field, David Dudley
The Telegraph[490]
Early Connecticut[493]
Finch, Francis M.
The Office of the Law[496]
Foord, John
The Land o' Cakes[500]
Ford, Simeon
Me and Sir Henry[505]
A Run on the Banker[507]
Froude, James Anthony
Men of Letters[510]
Fuller, Melville Weston
The Supreme Court[513]
Garland, Hamlin
Realism versus Romanticism[518]
Gilbert, John
Playing Old Men Parts[522]
Gilbert, William Schwenk
Pinafore[524]
Gilman, Daniel Coit
The Era of Universities[528]
Gladstone, William Ewart
The Age of Research[530]
Grady, Henry W.
The Race Problem[534]
Grand, Sarah
Mere Man[551]
Grant, Ulysses Simpson
A Remarkable Climate[557]
Characteristics of Newspaper Men[559]
The Adopted Citizen[561]
Griggs, John William
Social Discontent[564]
Hale, Edward Everett
The Mission of Culture[570]
Boston[577]
Hall, William F.
Yarn of the Manager Bold[581]
Halstead, Murat
Our New Country[584]
Harrison, Benjamin
The Union of States[589]
Hawley, Joseph Roswell
The Press[593]
Hay, John
Omar Khayyam[598]
Hayes, Rutherford B.
National Sentiments[601]
Hendrix, Joseph C.
The Wampum of the Indians[603]
Herschell, Lord
Great Britain and the United States[609]
Hillard, George Stillman
The Influence of Men of Genius[616]
Hole, Samuel Reynolds
With Brains, Sir![622]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Welcome to the Alumni[625]
Dorothy Q.[627]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Sons of Harvard Who Fell in Battle[630]
The Joy of Life[631]
Houghton, Lord (Richard Monckton Milnes)
Your Speech and Ours[635]
Bonds of National Sympathy[639]
Howe, Julia Ward
Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes[645]
Howell, Clark
Our Reunited Country[647]
Howells, William Dean
The "Atlantic" and Its Contributors[653]
Howland, Henry Elias
Russia[657]
Our Ancestors and Ourselves[661]
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Science and Art[670]
Ingersoll, Robert Green
The Music of Wagner[672]
Irving, Sir Henry
Looking Forward[676]
The Drama[678]
The Function of the Newspaper[681]
Jebb, Richard Claverhouse
Literature and Art[686]
Jefferson, Joseph
My Farm in Jersey[688]
In Memory of Edwin Booth[691]
Kitchener, Lord
The Relief of Khartum[694]
Lang, Andrew
Problem Novels[698]
Laurier, Wilfrid
Canada[702]
Lawrence, Frank R.
The Future of New York[705]
Lecky, William E. H.
The Artistic Side of Literature[708]
Lee, Fitzhugh
The Flag of the Union Forever[710]
Leighton, Sir Frederic
Variety in British Art[713]
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Hans Breitmann's Return[717]
Lincoln, Abraham
Central Ideas of the Republic[720]
Lodge, Henry Cabot
The Blue and the Gray[723]
Long, John Davis
The Navy[727]
Low, Seth
The Chamber of Commerce[731]
Lowell, James Russell
Harvard Alumni[737]
National Growth of a Century[741]
The Stage[745]
Commerce[748]
After-Dinner Speaking[750]
"The Return of the Native"[7533]
Literature[758]
International Copyright[761]
Lowell, John
Humors of the Bench[766]
Lytton, Lord (Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Macready and the English Stage[769]
Farewell to Charles Dickens[774]
Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Spirit of New England Literature[778]
Mackay, Donald Sage
The Dutch Domine[782]
Mackenzie, Alexander C.
Music[787]
Macready, William Charles
Farewell to the Stage[791]
McCarthy, Justin
Ireland's Struggle[795]
McClure, Alexander Kelly
An Editorial Retrospect[799]
McKelway, St. Clair
Smashed Crockery[807]
Tribute to Mark Twain[811]
McKinley, William
Our Country[815]
The Future of the Philippines[818]
Melish, William B.
The Ladies[825]
Miles, Nelson Appleton
The Spanish-American War[831]
Miller, Samuel Freeman
Federal Judges[834]
Morley, John
Literature and Politics[838]
Motley, John Lothrop
The Poets' Corner[842]
Newman, John Philip
Commerce[845]
Norton, Charles Eliot
Castles in Spain[850]
Oglesby, Richard
The Royal Corn[853]
O'Reilly, John Boyle
Moore, the Bard of Erin[856]

ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME II

"Justice"[Frontispiece]
Photo-engraving in colors after an original painting
by George W. Maynard
Henry Woodfin Grady[534]
Photogravure after a photograph from life
Oliver Wendell Holmes[625]
Photogravure after a photograph from life
Robert Green Ingersoll[672]
Photogravure after a photograph from life
Menu Card[676]
Photogravure after a design by Thompson Willing
Faneuil Hall[723]
Photogravure after a photograph
"Patriotism"[815]
Photo-engraving in colors after an original painting
By George W Maynard