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a party badge and
as a term of reproach, and when those who measure their patriotism by
the standards of good feeling and self-respect are denied the right to the
use of the term though they have an equal love for their country and
take an equal pride in their country's honourable achievements, it seems
necessary to define the word before one applies it to oneself or puts
one's name to what may be called patriotic verse.
It is a bad day for any country when false standards of patriotism
prevail, and at such times it is clearly the duty of intelligent patriotism
to uphold true ones.
ALFRED H. MILES. October, 1901.

CONTENTS.
NAME. AUTHOR.
John Bull and His Island Alfred H. Miles The Red Rose of War F.
Harald Williams England Eliza Cook A Song for Australia W. C.

Bennet The Ploughshare of Old England Eliza Cook The Story of Abel
Tasman Frances S. Lewin The Groom's Story A. Conan Doyle The
Hardest
Part I ever Played Re Henry
The Story of Mr. King David Christie Murray The Art of Poetry From
"Town Topics" The King of Brentford's Testament W. M. Thackeray.
"Universally Respected" J. Brunton Stephens The Amenities of
Shopping Leopold Wagner Shamus O'Brien J. S. Le Fanu Home, Sweet
Home William Thomson The Cane Bottom'd Chair W. M. Thackeray
The Alma W. C. Bennet The Mameluke Charge Sir F. H. Doyle My
Lady's Leap Campbell Rae-Brown A Song for the end of the Season J.
R. Planche The Aged Pilot-man Mark Twain Tim Keyser's Nose Max
Adeler The Lost Expression Marshall Steele A Night Scene Robert B.
Brough Karl the Martyr Frances Whiteside The Romance of Tenachelle
Hercules Ellis Michael Flynn William Thomson A Night with a Stork
William G. Wilcox An Unmusical Neighbour William Thomson The
Chalice David Christie Murray Livingstone Henry Lloyd In Swanage
Bay Mrs. Craik Ballad of Sir John Franklin G. H. Boker Phadrig
Crohoore J. S. Le Fanu Cupid's Arrows Eliza Cook The Crocodile's
Dinner Party E. Vinton Blake "Two Souls with but a Single Thought"
William Thomson A Risky Ride Campbell Rae-Brown On Marriage
Josh Billings The Romance of Carrigcleena Hercules Ellis The False
Fontanlee W. C. Roscoe The Legend of St. Laura Thomas Love
Peacock David Shaw, Hero J. Buckham Brotherhood Alfred H. Miles
The Straight Rider H. S. M. Women and Work Alfred H. Miles A
Country Story Alfred H. Miles The Beggar Maid Lord Tennyson The
Vengeance of Kafur Clinton Scollard The Wishing Well V. W. Cloud
The Two Church Builders John G. Saxe The Captain of the Northfleet
Gerald Massey The Happiest Land H. W. Longfellow The Pipes of
Lucknow J. G. Whittier The Battle of the Baltic Thomas Campbell The
Grave Spoilers Hercules Ellis Bow-Meeting Song Reginald Heber The
Ballad of Rou Lord Lytton Bingen on the Rhine Hon. Mrs. Norton
Deeds, not Words Captain Marryat Old King Cole Alfred H. Miles The
Green Domino Anonymous The Legend Beautiful H. W. Longfellow
The Bell of Atri H. W. Longfellow The Storm Adelaide A. Proctor The

Three Rulers Adelaide A. Proctor The Horn of Egremont Castle
William Wordsworth The Miracle of the Roses Robert Southey The
Bridal of Malahide Gerald Griffin The Daughter of Meath T. Haynes
Bayley Glenara Thomas Campbell A Fable for Musicians Clara D.
Bates Onward. A Tale of the S.E.R. Anonymous The Declaration N. P.
Willis Love and Age Thomas Love Peacock Half an Hour before
Supper Bret Harte He Worried About It S. W. Foss Astronomy made
Easy Anonymous Brother Watkins John B. Gough Logic Anonymous
The Pride of Battery B F. H. Gassaway The Dandy Fifth F. H.
Gassaway Bay Billy F. H. Gassaway The Old Veteran Bayard Taylor
Santa Claus Alfred H. Miles

THE ROYAL RECITER
_EDITED BY ALFRED H. MILES_.

JOHN BULL AND HIS ISLAND.
BY ALFRED H. MILES.
There's a doughty little Island in the ocean,-- The dainty little darling of
the free; That pulses with the patriots' emotion, And the palpitating
music of the sea: She is first in her loyalty to duty; She is first in the
annals of the brave; She is first in her chivalry and beauty, And first in
the succour of the slave! Then here's to the pride of the ocean! Here's to
the pearl of the sea! Here's to the land of the heart and the hand That
fight for the right of the free! Here's to the spirit of duty, Bearing her
banners along-- Peacefully furled in the van of the world Or waving
and braving the wrong.
There's an open-hearted fellow in the Island, Who loves the little Island
to the full; Who cultivates the lowland and the highland With a lover's
loving care--John Bull His look is the welcome of a neighbour; His
hand is the offer