Produced by Curtis Weyant, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by the Wright American Fiction Project.) GIFTS OF GENIUS: A Miscellany OF PROSE AND POETRY, BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR C.A. DAVENPORT. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by C.A. DAVENPORT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY, OUT AT ELBOWS.--THE STORY OF ST. GEORGE CLEAVE. BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE, MY SECRET. (_From the French._) BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, A LEAF FROM MY PARIS NOTE-BOOK. BY H.T. TUCKERMAN, ON POPULAR KNOWLEDGE. BY GEORGE S. HILLARD, ON RECEIVING A PRIVATELY PRINTED VOLUME OF POEMS FROM A FRIEND. BY THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, THE PRINCE AT LAND'S END. BY CAROLINE CHESEBRO, SEA-WEED. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, TREFOIL. BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK, MISERERE DOMINE. BY WILLIAM H. BURLEIGH, THE KINGDOMS OF NATURE PRAISING GOD.--A SHORT ESSAY ON THE 148th PSALM. BY C.A. BARTOL, TRANSLATIONS. BY THE REV. CHARLES T. BROOKS, RECOLLECTIONS OF NEANDER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. BY THE REV. ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, D.D., POEMS. BY JULIA WARD HOWE, EARTH'S WITNESS. BY ALICE B. HAVEN, THE NEW ENGLAND THANKSGIVING. BY THE REV. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D.D., SONG OF THE ARCHANGELS. (_From Goethe's Faust._) BY GEORGE P. MARSH, A NIGHT AND DAY AT VALPARAISO. BY ROBERT TOMES, TRANSLATIONS. BY THE REV. THEODORE PARKER, PAID FOR BY THE PAGE. BY EDWARD S. GOULD, WORDS FOR MUSIC. BY GEORGE P. MORRIS, "THE CHRISTIAN GREATNESS." (_Passages from a Manuscript Sermon._) BY THE REV. ORVILLE DEWEY, D.D., THE BABY AND THE BOY MUSICIAN. BY LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, THE ERL-KING. (_From the German of Goethe._) BY MRS. E.F. ELLET, THOUGHTS UPON FENELON. BY THE REV. SAMUEL OSGOOD, D.D., POEMS. BY MRS. GEORGE P. MARSH, A STORY OF VENICE. BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, THE TORTURE CHAMBER. BY WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, THE HOME OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE. BY FRANCIS WILLIAMS, THORWALDSEN'S CHRIST. BY REV. E.A. WASHBURN, JUNE TWENTY-NINTH, EIGHTEEN FIFTY-NINE. BY CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND, NO SONGS IN WINTER. BY T.B. ALDRICH, BENI-ISRAEL. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, BOCAGE'S PENITENTIAL SONNET. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, TO THE PUBLIC.