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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855,
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
.
PAGE
JAMES KIRKE PAULDING
1
A Rural Lover, from the " Lay of the Scottish
Fiddle."
An Evening Walk in Virginia, from the "Letters
from the South."
A Trio of Frenchmen.
Character of Washington.
The Man that wanted but One Thing, the Man that
wanted Everything, and the Man that wanted
Nothing.
JOSEPH STOPY
10
Fragments
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
12
Irving's Reminiscences of Allston.
America to Great Britain.
Winter, from the "Sylphs of the Seasons."
Rosalie.
Invention in Art in Ostade and Raphael, from the
- Lectures on Art."
JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM .
19
MOSES STUART
20
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
21
Military Genius, from the " Essay on Napoleon."
Religion in Literature, from the . Essay on Fenelon."
HENRY T. FARMER
24
The Woes of Modern Greece: a Prize Poem.
TIMOTHY FLINT
The shores of the Ohio.
HENRY PICKERING
25
The House in which I was born: once the Head:
quarters of Washington.
The Dismantled Cabinet.
The Buckwheat Cake.
HENRY J. FINN
28
Passage from the Comic Annual.
DANIEL WEBSTER
29
Moral Force of Public Opinion, from the Speech on
the Revolution in Greece.
The Union-Peroration of second Speech on Foot's
Resolution in Reply to Hayne.
The Sec:et of Murder-the Trial of Knapp for the
Murder of White.
From the Address before the New York Historical
Society, 1862.
Letter on the Morning, to Mrs. J. W. Paige.
JOHN C. CALHOUN
84
State Sovereignty, from the Speech on ihe Force
Bill in the Senate, February, 1633.
ROBERT WALSH
87
Sentences,
froin “ Didactics."
HENRY WHEATON
39
CHARLES J. INGERSOLL
40
Book-making Travellers in America, from " Inchi-
quin's Letters,"
LEWIS CASS
42
Passage from Address before the New England so:
ciety of Michigan.
THOMAS HART BENTON
48
Character of Nathaniel Macon, from the Thirty
Years' View."
HENRY A. S. DEARBORN .
45
PAGB
JOHN SANDERSON
The Parisian · Pension.--
SELLECK OSBORN.
46
New England.
WASHINGTON IRVING
47
The Dull Lecture.
The Stout Gentleman, from “Bracebridge Hall."
The Broken Heart, from the "Sketch Book."
Description of the powerful Army assembled at the
City of New Amsterdam, from “Knickerbocker's
New York."
WILLIAM IRVING
Vision of Two Sisters in a Ball Room.
DICKINSON COLLEGE
59
JAMES T. AUSTIN
61
Passages from the Life of Elbridge Gerry.
SAMUEL L. KNAPP
LEVI FRISBIE.
62
A Castle in the Air.
JOSEPH 8. BUCKMINSTER.
63
DAVID HOFFMAN
65
Fame and Authorship, from the Introduction to
** Viator."
GULIAN C. VERPLANCK
68
The Mother and the Schoolmaster.
SAMUEL WOODWORTH
70
Autumnal Rellections,
The Pride of the Valley.
The Old Oaken Bucket.
JOHN PIERPONT
72
Invitations of the Muse, from “airs of Palestine."
An Italian Scene.
Dedication Hymn.
Centennial Ode.
M. M. NOAH
73 ✓
Letter to William Dunlap, Esq..
FRANKLIN COLLEGE, GA.
76
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, MD.
77
C. S. RAFINESQUE
78
DANIEL DRAKE-BENJAMIN DRAKE
NICHOLAS BIDDLE
79
GARDNER SPRING
80
A Popular Preacher.
ANDREWS NORTON
81
Scene after a Summer Shower.
On Listening to a Cricket.
Hymn. .
Funeral Dirge.
JOHN ENGLAND
83
THOMAS SMITH GRIMKÉ
Passage from a Fourth of July Oration.
Passage from Preface to Oration on American Educa-
tion.
SAMUEL FARMAR JARVIS
85
WILLIAM CRAFTS.
86
Monody on the Death of Decatur.
ELIZA LESLIE,
The Nontagues in America, from - Mrs. Washington
Potts."
RICILARD HENRY DANA
89
The Little Beach Bird.
Immortality, from " the Husband and Wife's Grave."
The Buccancer.
Edmund Kean's Lear, from the Paper on Kean's
Acting.
Influence of Ilome, from the Paper on Domestic Life.
RICHARD DABEY
93
Translation tron-appho.
Youth and .ge.
The Tribute,
Au Epigram, imitated from Irchias,
NATHANIEL II. CARTER
100
ISAAC HARBY
WILLIAM ELLIOTT
Passans from Fiesco.
Pasages from Sporting Papers.
SIMUEL JACKSON GARDNER.
113
WILLIAM J. GRAYSON
103
A Sunday Scene at the South.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTII CAROLINA
104
WILLIAM J.LY
1u6
RICILARD JIENRY WILDE
106
Sonnets, translared froin Tasso.
To the Mocking Bird.
Stanzas.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
108
Capture of a While, from the Pilot.";
The Panther, from the Pioneers."
Deerslayer at the Death of his Savage Foe.
JAMES A. HILLHOUSE
117
Passage from Hadad.
Last Evening of the World, from "the Judgment."
Interview of ladad and Tamar The Temptation. The Education of Men of Leisure, from "the Rela-
tions of Literature to a Repubiican Governinent."
JOHN W. FRANCIS
121
Christopher Colles.
ELIZA TOWNSEND
125
The Incumprehensibility of God."
The Rainbow.
SARAH J. HALE
126
It Snows.
JOB DURFEE
127
Roger Williams in the Forest.
LEVI WOODBURY
123
Means and Motives in American Education.
SAMUEL HI. TURNER
129
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
CIARLES SPRAGUE
182
Prize Prologue, recited at the opening of the Park
Theatre, 1521.
Art.
The Traveller, froin “Curiocity."
The Brothers,
The Winged Worshippers,
CILARLES JAMES SPRAGUE
The Empty House.
LYDIA HI. SIGOURNEY
185
Indian Names.
Poetry
Jamestown Church.
Life's Evening
The Early Blue-bird.
Talk with the Sea.
JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT
189
EDWIN C. HOLLAND
The Pillar of Giory.
WILLIAM H. TIMROD .
140
To Harry.
HENRY TIMROD
The Past-s Fragment.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE
Fragment.
Home, Sweet Home.
Ode.
The Tomb of Genius.
JAMES HALL.
145
Solitude.
Pierre, the French Barber's Indian Adventure, from
"the Dark Maid of Ilinois."
WILLIAM L. STONE
150
HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT.
151
The White Stone Canoe—from the Tales of a 'Wigs
wain."
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
154
EDWARD HITCHCOCK.
156
HENRY C. CAREY.
157
HIENRY COGSWELL KNIGIIT
159
The Country Oven.
FREDERICK KNIGHT
Faith.
HEW AINSLIE
160
The Absent Father.
The Ingle Side.
JOIN NEAL
161
A War Song of the Revolution.
The Birth of a Poet.
ORVILLE DEWEY
Study, from bis Phi Beta Kappa Address in 1830.
JARED SPARKS
105
EDWARD ROBINSON
167
THERESE ROBINSON
EDWARD EVERETT
169
Passages from his Phi Beta Kappa poin. Benefits to America of One National Literature.
The Men and Deeds of the Revolution.
HENRY WARE-HENRY WARE, JR.JOHN WARE
WILLIAM WAKE
178
Sonnet on the Completion of Noyes's Translation of
the Prophets. November, 1837.
Death of Probus, froin " Aurelian."
Zenobia, Fausta, and Piso, from Zenobia."
Repose, from the "Lectures on Allston,
CAROLINE GILMIN
119
The Plantation.
To the Ursulines.
| CAROLINE H. GLOVER
Spring Time.
CARLOS WILCOX
181
Spring in New England, from the Age of Benevo:
lence."
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Drought.
Thanatopsis.
Toa Waterfowl.
June.
The Death of the Flowers
Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids.
To the Evening Wind.
Song of Marion's Men,
The Battle Field.
The Land of Dreams,
Robert of Lincoln.
Corn-Shucking in South Carolina, from the * Letters
of a Traveller."
JOHN JIOWARD BRYANT
Lines on finding a Fountain in a secluded part of a
Forest.
JOHN D. GODMAN
191
The Pine Forest.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
192
UNION COLLEGE
194
JOHN E. HOLBROOK
197
MARIA BROOKS
199
Passages from “ Zophiel."
Egla Sleeping in the Grove of Acacias, from “ Zo-
Phil.”
Morning Sunlight, from “ Zophiel."
Song, from "Zophiel."
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE,
201
Passage from “Lines to John Lang."
Passages from “the Culprit Fay."
Impromptı.
The Mocking Bird.
Sonnet.
To the Defenders of New Orleans.
Bronx.
To Ennui, from “the Croakers."
Ode to Fortune,
To Croaker, Junior,
The American Flay
66
223
FITZ GREENE HALLECK
2.7
The Iron Greys.
To ***
Domestic Happiness, froin “ the Croakers."
Song, from " Fanny.
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.
Marco Bozzaris.
A Poet's Daughter.
Connecticut.
JAMES G. PERCIVAL
212
The Spirit of Poetry, froin “Clio
A Platonic Bacchanal Song.
The Serenade.
To Seneca Lake.
The Graves of the Patriots.
DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSOV
215
A School-Committee-Man and a Lawsuit.
WILLIAM B SPRAGUE
219
JOHN P. KENNEDY
Description of Swallow Barn.
Pursuits of a Philosopher.
JOHN GORHAM PALFREY
Religious Opportunities of Age.
SARAH PALFREY
Passage from * Manhood."
HORACE MANN
224
Health and Temperance, from - Thoughts for å
Young Man."
GEORGE BUSH
226
JOHN G. C. BRAINARD
To the Daughter of a Friend.
On Connecticut River.
Salınon River.
The Black Fox of Salmon River.
The Sea Bird's Song.
GEORGE TICKNOR.
230
The Author's Key-note to Spanish Literature.
Spanish Love Ballad, from the Romancero of Pedro
Flores, 1594.
Hymn on the Ascension, from the Spanish of Luis de
Leon.
Don Onixote.
La Dama Duende of Calderon.
WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT
23
The Return of Coluinbus after his First Voyage,
from the History of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Queen Isabella, from the same.
Death of Montezuma, from the Conquest of Mexico,
Montezuma's Way of Life, from
CHARLES FOLLEN
Scbilier's Love of Liberty, from thi Lectures or
Schiller
MRS. FOLLEN.
On the Death of a Beautiful Girl.
CALVIN COLTON-WALTER COLTON
HUGH SWINTON LEGARE.
217
Characteristics of Lord Byron.
DAVID J. M'CORD-LOUISA S. M'CORD
249
The Voice of Years,
Cornelia and Gracchus. Act II1., Sceno 1.
HENRY JUNIUS NOTT
2:3
Passage from “ Thoinas Singularity." " STEPHEN OLIN
254
KATHARINE AUGUSTA WARE.
255
Voice of the Seasons.
NATHANIEL GREENE.
ROBERT S. COFFIN
Pasages from the “ Boston Bard.
Song.
N L. FROTIIINGHAM
256
Hymn.
The McLean Asylum, Somerville, Mass.
ROBERT WALN
257
Passage from * American Bards."
Hanting Song.
WILLIAM A. MUHLENBERG
259
The 187th Hymn.
SAMUEL H. DICKSON .
Lines,
Old Age and Death, from the Essays on Life, Sleep,
Pain, &c.
M'DONALD CLARKE
261
Stanzas on the Death of Brainard.
On seeing a Young Girl look very wishfully into the
Street from a window of Miss -~'s Boarding
School, in Broadway.
Sunday in Summer.
Astor House.
| ISAAC STARR CLASON.
208
Napoleon, from the Don Juan.
Thomas Addis Eumet.
JOHN HUGHES
264
FRANCIS L. HAWKS
Appeal for Uniou of the Revolutionary Fathers and
Statesmen.
To an Aged and very Cheerful Christian Lady.
ALBERT BARNES
205
WILLIAM TUDOR
238
The Elysian Fields, from **Gebei Teir."
ROBERT C. SANDS
271
Hoboken.
Prvem to Yamoyden.
A Monody mude on the late Mr. Sarnuel Portell, by na
Admirer of the Bathos.
The Dead of 1832.
GREYVILLE MELLEN .
277
The Bridal
The Bugle.
PROSPER M. WETMORE
279
Painting
JAMES LAWSON
280
The Approach of Age.
Sonnet, " Andrew Jackson,"
WILLIAM BOURNE OLIVER PEABODY-OLIVER
WILLIAM BOURNE PEABODY
22
Monadnock.
"Man giveth up the Ghost, and where is Ile?"
LUCIUS M. SARGENT
WILLIAM B. WALTER.
Mourner of the Last Hope.
F. W. P. GREENWOOD
284
Opportunities of Winter for Instruction.
RUFUS CHOATE
296
Passage from Speech on the Oregon Question.
Description of the New England Climate.
The Statesmanship of Daniel Webster.
The Consolations of Literature.
CONNECTICUT ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCI-
ENCES
289
GEORGE W. DOANE
On a very old Wedding Ring.
Lvening.
CALEB CUSHING
291
THEODORE SEDGWICK-CITHARINE M. SEDG-
WICK-THEODORE SEDGWICK
The Rescue of Everell by Magawisea, froin "llope
Leslie."
The Shakers at Hancock, from “Redwood."
HANNAH F. LEE
295
GEORGE WOOD
293
The Circle of Financiers, from “ Peter Schiemihi.
HENRY CARY
297
Do not Strain your Puvch.
On Perception.
FRANCIS LIEBER
299
The Gentlemanly Character in Polities aid instituie
tions, from the Address on the Character of the
Gentleman.
The Ship Canal, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
GEORGE BANCROFT
34
Cornparison of Jubo Locke and Williain Penn.
Braddock's Doteat, 17.5.
Rural Life in England.
The Boston Massacre, 1770.
Study of the Intinite, from the New York Historical
Society Address, 1854.
ROBERT GREENHOW
8:1
S. G. GOODRICH
311
Good Night.
The Teacher's Lesson.
GEORGE HILL
813
Meditation at Athens, from *** Ruins
of Athens."
Liberty,
i the
A. B. LONGSTREET
814
Georgia Theatrics, from the Georgia Scones."
BENJAMIN F. FRENCH
815
FRANCIS PATRICK KENRICK .
CHARLES PETTIT MILVAINE.
316
STEPHEN H. TYNG
816
ALEXANDER YOUNG
SAMUEL SEABURY
817
JOHN 0. CHOULES
GEORGE P. MARSIL
Anglo-Saxon lutiuences of ione.
THOMAS COLE.
818
A Sunset.
Twilixht.
The Tread of Time.
Song of a Spirit.
ALEXANDER H. EVERETT
820
The Young American,
The Art of Being Happy.
JAMES G. AND MARY E. BROOKS
823
Jeremiahı x, 17.
Freedom.
Stauzas.
JACOB B. MOORE.
:
825
WILLIAM II. SEWARD
326
The American People—their Moral and Intellectuai
Development.
WILLIAM II. FURNESS
828
Hymns.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, S. C.-SOUTH CA-
ROLINA COLLEGE, COLUMBIA
329
THIOMAS COOPER:
381 Memoranda of Tabie-Talk.
ORESTES A. BROWNSON
835
NATIANAEL DEERING
836
The Wreck of the Two Pollies.
ALBERT G. GREENE
To the Weathercock on Our Steeple.
The Baron's Last Banquet.
Old Grimes.
EDWARD COATE PINKNEY
838
Passages froin “ Rodolplı."
Italy
The Indian's Bride.
A Picture-Song.
A Health,
BELA BATES EDWARDS
841
WILLIAM LEGGETT
348
Song
In Memory of William Leggett.
The Main-Truck; or, a Leup for Life.
GEORGE P. MORRIS
847
The Whip-poor-will.
Woodman spare that Tree.
I'm with You once again.
A Legend of the Mohawk.
Near the Lake.
The Croton Ode, written at the request of the Corpo-
ration of the city of New York.
My Mother's Bible.
GEORGE W. BURNAP
351
Isolation of the American Colonies, a Proinotion of
Democracy.
NICHOLAS MURRAY
852
CYNTHIA TAGGART
352
On the Return of Spring.
On a Storoi.
RUFUS DAWES
358
Sunrise, from Mount Washington.
The Poet.
JACOB ABBOTT--JOHN S. C. ABBOTT
354
WILLIAM POST HAWES
855
Some Observations concerning Quail.
Hynin Tunes and Graveyards.
A Shark Story, froin Fire Island Ap.
ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE
860
Zaragoza, from “Spain Revisited."
Lodgings in Madrid, and a Landlady, from the same.
A London Coffee-Room at Dinner Time, from "The
American in England."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
865
The Problem.
Tact.
Good Bye.
The llumble Bee.
The Apology
Beauty, from “ Nature."
Love, from the Essays,
Montaigne, from " Representative Men."
GEORGE HENRY CALVERT
872
Washington, from " Arnold and André."
Altieri and Daute.
The Nun.
Bonaparte.
Molice and Rachel.
SAMUEL LINCOLN FAIRFIELD
876
Pere la Chaise.
ROBERT M. BIRD
878 -
The Beech Tree.
A Rescue, from "Nick of the Woods."
WILLIAM BINGHAM TAPPIN
880
Stanzas from “ A Sapphic for Thanksgiving."
The Sunday School.
JOIIN K. !ITCHELL
881
The Brilliant Nor West.
The New and the Old Song.
RICHARD PENN SMITH
882
LOUISA J. HALL
899
Scene from * Mirinm."
MARIA J. MCINTOSII
384
The Brothers; or, in the 'Fashion and Above the
Fashion.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD.
888
Ole Bull
, from " Letters from New York.”'
Old Age, from the same.
The Brothers.
EDMUND D. GRIFFIN .
891
Lines on leaving Italy.
JOHN HENRY HOPKINS
893
WILLIAM CROSWELL
The Ordinal.
New Year's Verses, from the Desk of Poor Richard,
Passage from a Commencement Poem.
To My Father
Nature and Revelation.
This also shall pass away.
Pealm cxxxvii.
A Sunday Schoo! Ilymn.
Hym for Advent.
De Profundis.
Traveller's Ilymn.
HORACE BUSHNELL
397
Play, a Life of Freedom.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE.
400
The Flight of Years.
CHARLES E. ARTHUR GAYARRÉ .
401
Father Dagobert.
GEORGE W. BETHUNE
409
Song:
The Fourth of July.
National Characteristics.
EDWARD SANFORD
406
Passage from the Loves of the Shell Fishes."
A Hard-Cider Melody.
Address to Black Hawk.
To a Mosquito.
Song, imitated from the French.
Charcoal Sketch of Pot Pie Palmer.
THEODORE S. FAY
412
The Rhine. from " Ulric."
An Outline Sketch.
WILLIAM COX
415
Biography of Jacob Hays.
JOHN INMAN
416
Thonglits at the Grave of a Departed Friend.
HORATIO GREENOUGH
417
The Desecration of the Flag.
JOHN R. BARTLETT
418
Jr.