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H. Dana, Jr. 371
107. Impeachment of Warren Hastings T. B. Macaulay. 375
108. Destruction of the Carnatic Edmund Burke. 379
109. The Raven Edgar Allan Poe. 382
110. A View of the Colosseum Orville Dewey. 389
111. The Bridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.392
112. Objects and Limits of Science Robert Charles Winthrop. 394
113. The Downfall of Poland. Thomas Campbell. 396
114. Labor Horace Greeley. 398
115. The Last Days of Herculaneum Edwin Atherstone. 401
116. How Men Reason Oliver Wendell Holmes. 405
117. Thunderstorm on the Alps Lord Byron. 408
118. Origin of Property Sir William Blackstone. 410
119. Battle of Waterloo Lord Byron. 415
120. "With Brains, Sir" John Brown. 417
121. The New England Pastor Timothy Dwight. 410
122. Death of Absalom Bible. 420
123. Abraham Davenport John Greenleaf Whittier. 424
124. The Falls of the Yosemite Thomas Starr King. 426
125. A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.429
126. Franklin's Entry into Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. 431
127. Lines to a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant. 434
128. Goldsmith and Addison William Makepeace Thackeray. 435
129. Immortality of the Soul Joseph Addison. 438
130. Character of Washington Jared Sparks. 440
131. Eulogy on Washington Henry Lee. 444
132. The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth. 446
133. Value of the Present Ralph Waldo Emerson. 447
134. Happiness Alexander Pope. 451
135. Marion William Gilmore Simms. 453
136. A Common Thought Henry Timrod. 456
137. A Definite Aim in Reading Noah Porter. 457
138. Ode to Mt. Blanc Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 462

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS. (9)
NAME PAGE NAME PAGE
1. ADDISON, JOSEPH 295, 438 38. GOLDSMITH 215
2. ARNOLD. GEORGE 133 39. GRATTAN. HENRY 154
3. ATHERSTONE. EDWIN 401 40. GRAY, THOMAS 108
4. BACON, SIR FRANCIS 332 41. GREELEY, HORACE 398
5. BEECHER, LYMAN 128, 228 42. GREENWOOD, F. W. P. 223
6. BIBLE, THE 160, 189, 420 43. GRIMKE. THOMAS S. 163
7. BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM 410 44. HALLECK. FITZ-GREEN 202
8. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE 63 45. HAYNE, ROBERT YOUNG 257
9. BROWN, JOHN 417 46. HAZLITT, WILLIAM 278
10. BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. 195 47. HEMANS, FALICIA D. 226
11. BRYANT 141, 275, 434 48. HENRY, PATRICK 115
12. BULWER-LYTTON 334 19. HOLMES 246, 405
13. BURKE, EDMUND 379 50. HOOD, THOMAS 266
14. BYRD, WILLIAM 94 51. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS 73
15. BYRON 205, 408, 415 52. HOWELLS. W. D. 292
16. CALHOUN, JOHN C. 344 53. HOWITT, WILLIAM 132
17. CAMPBELL, THOMAS 211, 396 54. HUNT, LEIGH 321
18. CARY, ALICE 88 55. HUTTON, JOSEPH 161
19. CHANNING, WILLLIAM ELLERY 132 56. IRVING 192, 212, 249
20. CHORLEY, H. F. 81 57. JACKSON, HELEN HUNT 358
21. COLRIDGE. 462 58. JEFFERSON, THOMAS 253
22. COLMAN, GEORGE 303 59. JOHNSON, SAMUEL 78, 130
23. COWPER 310 60. JONES, SIR WILLIAM 255
24. DANA, RICHARD H. JR. 371 61. KENNEDY, JOHN P. 171
25. DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY 131 62. KING, THOMAS STARR 426
26. DEWEY, ORVILLE 389 63. LEE, HENRY 444
27. DICKENS 96, 135 64. LEFEBVRE-LABOULAYE 269
28. DISRAELI, BENJAMIN 70 65. LONGFELLOW 262,290,392,429
29. DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN 119 66. MACAULAY 375
30. DRYDEN 96 67. MACKENZIE. HENRY 218
31. DWIGHT, TIMOTHY 419 68. MILTON 312
32. EMERSON 447 69. MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL 221
33. EVERETT 68 70. NEAL, JOHN 104
34. FIELDS. JAMES T. 301 71. PARKMAN. FRANCIS 325
35. FLAGG, WILSON 90 72. PERCIVAL, J. G 251
36. FOX, CHARLES JAMES 102 73. PHILLIPS. CHARLES 143
37. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN 431 74. PIERPONT, JOHN 146

NAME PAGE NAME PAGE
75. PITT 152 93. TAYLOR, B. F, 231
76. POE, EDGAR ALLAN 382 94. TENNYSON 347
77. POPE 451 95. THACKERAY 435
78, PORTER, NOAH 457 96. THOMSON, JAMES 72, 95
79. PRENTICE, GEO. D. 355 97. THRALE. HESTER LYNCH 124
80. PRESCOTT 286 98. TIMROD, HENRY 456
81. PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE l78 99. TOBIN, JOHN 238
82. READ, T. B. 256 100. TYNDALL 364
83. ROGERS, SAMUEL 340 101. VON HERDER. J. G. 100
84. RUSKIN, JOHN 131 102. WALLER, EDMUND 95
85. SCOTT 156,176,197,350 103. WALPOLE 151
86. SHAKESPEARE. 95, 158, 167 104. WEBSTER 259, 352, 362
234, 281, 322, 327, 339, 368 105. WHITNEY, ADELINE D. T. 185
87. SHERMAN, R. B. 130 106. WHITTIER 317, 424
88. SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE 453 107. WILSON, JOHN 94, 180
89. SPARKS, JARED 440 108. WINTHROP, R.C. 394
90. SPRAGUE, CHARLES 209 109. WIRT, WILLIAM 366
91. SPRING, GARDINER 186 110. WOODWORTH, SAMUEL 67
92. SUMNER 148 111. WORDSWORTH 440
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. (10) Page Drawn by Engraved by
GINEVRA Frontspiece H. F. Farney. Timothy Cole.
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE 65 H. F. Farney. F.Juengling
GRAY'S ELEGY 112 Thomas Moran. Henry Bogert.
MARMION 177 C. S. Reinhart. J. G. Smithwick.
THE QUACK 240 Howard Pyle. J. P. Davis.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND 272 Alfred Kappes. Timothy Cole.
THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS 321 H. F. Farney. Smithwick and French.
HERCULANEUM 401 Charles D. Sauerwein. Francis S. King.
INTRODUCTION. (11)
The subject of Elocution, so far as it is deemed applicable to a work of this kind, will be considered under the following heads, viz:
1. ARTICULATION. 4. READING VERSE. 2. INFLECTION. 5. THE VOICE. 3. ACCENT AND EMPHASIS. 6. GESTURE.

I. ARTICULATION. (11)
Articulation is the utterance of the elementary sounds of a language, and of their combinations.
As words consist of one or more elementary sounds, the first object of the student should he to acquire the power of uttering those sounds with distinctness, smoothness,