There is a Day of Sunny Rest William Cullen Bryant 280 Birdie and Baby Alfred Tennyson 281 The Influence of Books Edwin P. Whipple 282 Rock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers 283 Heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson 285 Politeness 285 Measuring the Baby Emma Alice Brown 286 Pearl of Thought Johann Chr. F. Schiller 288 The Noble Roman John G. Saxe 288 The Engineer's Story 289 As He Saw Himself Sir Isaac Newton 293 The Random Shaft Sir Walter Scott 293 Two Brave Boys Pritt's "Border Life" 294 Undoubted Evidence Rev. Laurence Stern 298 The Flight of Years George D. Prentice 299 Airy Nothings William Shakespeare 304 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] HARVEST SONG. JOHN G. WHITTIER. O Painter of the fruits and flowers! We thank Thee for thy wise design Whereby these human hands of ours In Nature's garden work with thine. And thanks that from our daily need The joy of simple faith is born; That he who smites the summer weed, May trust Thee for the autumn corn. Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. For he who blesses most is blest; And God and man shall own his worth, Who toils to leave as his bequest An added beauty to the earth. And, soon or late, to all that sow, The time of harvest shall be given; The flowers shall bloom, the fruit shall grow, If not on earth, at last in heaven! [Illustration] MINUTE MEN OF LIBERTY. Delivered on the one-hundredth anniversary of the battle of Lexington, Mass., by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, April 19, 1875. After reviewing the leading incidents of the battle of Lexington, in 1775, and the subsequent victories of Washington; and closing with a brilliant picture of the final triumph of the Colonial troops, Mr. Curtis said: "NOT such are our enemies to-day. They do not come proudly stepping to the drum-beat, with bayonets flashing in the morning sun. But wherever party spirit shall strain the ancient guarantees of Freedom, or bigotry and ignorance shall lay their fatal hands upon education, or the ignorance of caste shall strike at equal rights, or corruption shall poison the very springs of national life, there, Minutemen of Liberty are _your_ Lexington-Green and Concord-Bridge, and as you love your country and your kind, and would have your children rise up and call you blessed, spare not the enemy! Over the hills, out of the earth, down from the clouds pour in resistless might. [Illustration: "NOT SUCH ARE OUR ENEMIES TO-DAY."]