A GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA 83 THE BOY WHO BECAME PRESIDENT 85 HOW SHALL THE STARS BE PLACED? 88 THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER 89 HIS LAST TOAST 91 NOVEMBER 15 WILLIAM PITT, DEFENDER OF AMERICA HE AT ONCE BREATHED HIS OWN LOFTY SPIRIT, _John Richard Green_ 94 THIS TERRIBLE CORNET OF HORSE 95 THE CHARTER OF LIBERTY 98 AMERICA’S DEFENDER 101 THE SONS OF LIBERTY 103 A LAST SCENE, _John Fiske_ 105 DECEMBER 2 DOM PEDRO THE SECOND, THE MAGNANIMOUS, THE BEST REPUBLICAN IN BRAZIL FREEDOM IN BRAZIL, _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 110 THE BRAZILS MAGNIFICENT 111 THE EMPIRE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS 112 MAKING THE LITTLE EMPEROR, _W. H. Koebel_ 113 THE PATRIOT EMPEROR 115 I. Viva Dom Pedro the Second! II. My People III. Emancipating the Slaves, 1888 IV. The Empire of the Southern Cross--No More! _Margarette Daniels_ THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL 120 DECEMBER 20 WILLIAM BRADFORD, AND THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS SO THEY LEFT THAT GOODLY AND PLEASANT CITY, _William Bradford_ 124 THE FATHER OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES 125 THE SAVAGE NEW WORLD 128 WELCOME, ENGLISHMEN! 131 LOST! LOST! A BOY! 132 THE RATTLESNAKE CHALLENGE 136 THE GREAT DROUGHT, _Governor Edward Winslow_ 138 JANUARY 7 GENERAL ISRAEL PUTNAM, “OLD PUT” THERE WAS A GENEROSITY AND BUOYANCY ABOUT THE BRAVE OLD MAN, _Washington Irving_ 142 SEEING BOSTON 143 THE FIGHT WITH THE WOLF 144 FROM PLOUGH TO CAMP 146 HE MADE WASHINGTON LAUGH 148 A GENEROUS FOE 149 PUTNAM NOT FORGOTTEN! 150 JANUARY 11 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION HE GAVE THE WHOLE POWERS OF HIS MIND, _Daniel Webster_ 154 THE BOY OF THE HURRICANE, _Sherman Williams_ 155