MOORE 216
XXXIX. On a Lock of Milton's Hair. HUNT 217
XL. The Glove and the Lions. HUNT 217
XLI. The Cloud. SHELLEY 219
XLII. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. KEATS 222
XLIII. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket. KEATS 222
XLIV. The Power and Danger of the Cæsars. DE QUINCEY 223
XLV. Unthoughtfulness. DR. ARNOLD 227
XLVI. The Bridge of Sighs. HOOD 234
XLVII. A Parental Ode to my Son. HOOD 237
XLVIII. Metaphysics. HALIBURTON 239
XLIX. Indian Summer. LOVER 246
L. To Helen. PRAED 246
LI. Horatius. MACAULAY 247
LII. The Raven. POE 258
LIII. David Swan--A Fantasy. HAWTHORNE 262
LIV. My Kate. MRS. BROWNING 270
LV. A Dead Rose. MRS. BROWNING 271
LVI. To the Evening Wind. BRYANT 272
LVII. Death of the Protector. CARLYLE 274
LVIII. Each and All. EMERSON 282
LIX. Waterloo. LEVER 284
LX. The Diver. LYTTON 294
LXI. The Plague of Locusts. NEWMAN 299
LXII. The Cane-bottom'd Chair. THACKERAY 306
LXIII. The Reconciliation. THACKERAY 308
LXIV. The Island of the Scots. AYTOUN 315
LXV. The Gambling Party. BEACONSFIELD 321
LXVI. The Pickwickians Disport themselves on Ice. DICKENS 327
LXVII. The Hanging of the Crane. LONGFELLOW 336
LXVIII. Earthworms. DARWIN 342
LXIX. "As Ships, Becalmed at Eve." CLOUGH 346
LXX. Duty. CLOUGH 347
LXXI. Sonnets. HEAVYSEGE 349
LXXII. Dr. Arnold at Rugby. DEAN STANLEY 350
LXXIII. Ode to the North-east Wind. KINGSLEY 354
LXXIV. From "The Mill on the Floss." GEORGE ELIOT 356
LXXV. The Cloud Confines. ROSSETTI 359
LXXVI. Barbara Frietchie. WHITTIER 361
LXXVII. Contentment. HOLMES 364
LXXVIII. The British Constitution. GLADSTONE 367
LXXIX. The Lord of Burleigh. TENNYSON 370
LXXX. "Break, Break, Break." TENNYSON 373
LXXXI. The "Revenge". TENNYSON 373
LXXXII. Hervé Riel. BROWNING 378
LXXXIII. Sonnet. DR. WILSON 383
LXXXIV. Our Ideal. DR. WILSON 383
LXXXV. From the Apology of Socrates. JOWETT 384
LXXXVI. The Empire of the Cæsars. FROUDE 389
LXXXVII. Of the Mystery of Life. RUSKIN 390
LXXXVIII. The Robin. LOWELL 397
LXXXIX. The Old Cradle. LOCKER 400
XC. Rugby Chapel. MATT. ARNOLD 401
XCI. In the Orillia Woods. SANGSTER 408
XCII. Morals and Character in the Eighteenth Century. GOLDWIN
SMITH 409
XCIII. A Liberal Education. HUXLEY 412
XCIV. Too Late. MRS. CRAIK 416
XCV. Amor Mundi. MISS ROSSETTI 417
XCVI. Toujours Amour. STEDMAN 418
XCVII. England. ALDRICH 419
XCVIII. Rococo. ALDRICH 420
XCIX. Kings of Men. JOHN READE 420
C. Thalatta! Thalatta! JOHN READE 421
CI. The Forsaken Garden. SWINBURNE 422
CII. A Ballad To Queen Elizabeth of the Spanish Armada. DOBSON
424
CIII. Circe. DOBSON 426
CIV. Scenes from "Tecumseh." MAIR 426
CV. The Return of the Swallows. GOSSE 437
CVI. Dawn Angels. MISS ROBINSON 438
CVII. Le Roi Est Mort. MISS ROBINSON 439
CVIII. To Winter. ROBERTS 440
CIX. Abigail Becker. MISS JONES 442
SHORT EXTRACTS.
FIRST LINES. AUTHOR. PAGE.
He that cannot see well BACON 54
Stone walls do not a prison make LOVELACE 55
When the heart is right BERKELEY 87
It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well ADDISON 92
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still COWPER 154
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast COWPER 158
Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us BURNS 170
Life! we've been long together MRS. BARBAULD 178
Rough wind, that moanest loud SHELLEY 218
There is a book, who runs may read KEBLE 233
There is no great and no small EMERSON 245
Wellington, Thy great work is but begun ROSSETTI 293
Sacrifice and self-devotion LORD HOUGHTON 320
Flower in the crannied wall TENNYSON 366
It fortifies my soul to know CLOUGH 369
And yet, dear heart! remembering thee WHITTIER 372
There is no land like England TENNYSON 377
The Summum Pulchrum rests in heaven above CLOUGH 382
Be of good cheer then, my dear Crito SOCRATES 388
What know we greater than the soul TENNYSON 407
That is best blood that hath most iron in't LOWELL 411
Such kings of shreds have woo'd and won her ALDRICH 419
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
NAME. PAGE.
ADDISON, JOSEPH 88, 92
ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY 419, 420
ARNOLD, MATTHEW 401
ARNOLD, THOMAS 227
AYTOUN, WM. EDMONDSTOUNE 315
BACON, LORD (FRANCIS) 53, 54
BARBAULD, ANNA LÆTITIA 178
BEACONSFIELD, LORD (BENJAMIN DISRAELI) 321
BERKELEY, BISHOP (GEORGE) 87
BIBLE, THE HOLY 33, 39
BOSWELL, JAMES 133
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT 270, 271
BROWNING, ROBERT 378
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN 272
BURKE, EDMUND 147
BURNS, ROBERT 170, 171
BYRON, LORD (GEORGE GORDON NOEL) 211
CARLYLE, THOMAS 274
CHATHAM, LORD (WM. PITT) 116
CLARENDON, LORD 76
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH 346, 347, 369, 382
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR 205, 208
COWPER, WILLIAM 154, 155, 158
CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK 416
DARWIN, CHARLES 342
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS 223
DICKENS, CHARLES 327
DOBSON, AUSTIN 424, 426
DRYDEN, JOHN 81, 82, 83
ELIOT, GEORGE (MARIAN EVANS CROSS) 356
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO 245, 282
FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY 389
GIBBON, EDWARD 142
GLADSTONE,
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