Modern Eloquence: Vol II

Modern Eloquence: Vol II,
After-Dinner
by Various

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MODERN ELOQUENCE
LIBRARY OF
AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES, LECTURES
OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES

[Illustration: REPRODUCTIONS OF MURAL DECORATIONS
FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON
"JUSTICE"
Photo-engraving in colors after the original painting by George W.
Maynard
This picture is one of a series of eight panels representing "The
Virtues"--Fortitude, Justice, Patriotism, Courage, Temperance,
Prudence, Industry, and Concord. The number of virtues to be
represented was limited to the number of panels, so the selection was
necessarily somewhat arbitrary. Each figure is about five and a half feet
high, clad in floating classic drapery, and represented to the spectator as
appearing before him in the air, without a support or background other
than the deep red of the wall. "Justice" holds the globe in one hand,
signifying the extent of her sway. In the other hand she holds a naked
sword upright, in token of the terribleness of her punishment.]

MODERN ELOQUENCE
EDITOR
THOMAS B REED

JUSTIN McCARTHY, ROSSITER JOHNSON, ALBERT ELLERY
BERGH
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
VOLUME II
After-Dinner Speeches
E--O
GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO. CHICAGO Copyright, 1903 JOHN R.
SHUMAN

COMMITTEE OF SELECTION
EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Author of "The Man Without a
Country."
JOHN B. GORDON, Former United States Senator.
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, Associate Editor "International Library
of Famous Literature."
JAMES B. POND, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of "Eccentricities
of Genius."
GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER, Professor of English Literature,
Princeton University.
LORENZO SEARS, Professor of English Literature, Brown
University.
EDWIN M. BACON, Former Editor "Boston Advertiser" and "Boston
Post."
J. WALKER MCSPADDEN, Managing Editor "Édition Royale" of
Balzac's Works.

F. CUNLIFFE OWEN, Member Editorial Staff "New York Tribune."
TRUMAN A. DEWEESE, Member Editorial Staff "Chicago
Times-Herald."
CHAMP CLARK, Member of Congress from Missouri.
MARCUS BENJAMIN, Editor, National Museum, Washington, D. C.
CLARK HOWELL, Editor "Atlanta Constitution."

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