TALES OF A GRANDFATHER _Sir Walter Scott_ 293 THE STORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE 293 ROBERT THE BRUCE 301 THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN 311 EXPLOITS OF DOUGLAS AND RANDOLPH 318 THE PARTING OF MARMION AND DOUGLAS _Sir Walter Scott_ 325 BRUCE’S ADDRESS AT BANNOCKBURN _Robert Burns_ 328 ENGLAND AND FREEDOM THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE _Sir Walter Raleigh_ 330 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Thomas Campbell_ 336 ENGLAND AND AMERICA NATURAL ALLIES _John Richard Green_ 338 ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 340 ENGLAND TO FREE MEN _John Galsworthy_ 341 MEN WHO MARCH AWAY _Thomas Hardy_ 343 EARLY AMERICAN SPIRIT OF FREEDOM GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 345 HOW NEW ENGLAND WAS GOVERNED 345 THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS 349 THE STAMP ACT 354 BRITISH SOLDIERS STATIONED IN BOSTON 359 THE BOSTON MASSACRE 364 SOME FAMOUS PORTRAITS 370 THE GRAY CHAMPION _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 376 WARREN’S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL _John Pierpont_ 385 LIBERTY OR DEATH _Patrick Henry_ 386 GEORGE WASHINGTON TO HIS WIFE 390 GEORGE WASHINGTON TO GOVERNOR CLINTON 393 SONG OF MARION’S MEN _William Cullen Bryant_ 395 TIMES THAT TRY MEN’S SOULS _Thomas Paine_ 397 PART IV LITERATURE AND LIFE IN THE HOMELAND INTRODUCTION 403 EARLY AMERICA THE CHARACTER OF COLUMBUS _Archbishop Corrigan_ 405 THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS _Felicia Hemans_ 407 PHILIP OF POKANOKET _Washington Irving_ 409 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH _Henry W. Longfellow_ 427 AMERICAN SCENES AND LEGENDS MY VISIT TO NIAGARA _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 466 ON A FLORIDA RIVER _Sidney Lanier_ 473 I SIGH FOR THE LAND OF THE CYPRESS _Samuel Henry Dickson_ 477 THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW _Washington Irving_ 479