ANNA ELIZABETH DICKINSON. ⭘ A Fearless Girl ⭘ Birth, Childhood and Education ⭘ Her Debut Before the Public ⭘ Cast Upon the World ⭘ How She was Named “The Girl Orator” ⭘ The Mistake of Her Life ⭘ Misfortunes and Difficulties ⭘ Rare Eloquence and Dramatic Fervor ⭘ ‘Why Colored Men Should Enlist in the Army’ MISCELLANEOUS MASTERPIECES. ⭘ ‘Home, Sweet Home’ ⭘ ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ ⭘ ‘The American Flag’ ⭘ ‘Blind Man and the Elephant’ ⭘ ‘Hail, Columbia!’ ⭘ ‘Betty and the Bear’ ⭘ ‘Visit of St. Nicholas’ ⭘ ‘Woodman, Spare that Tree’ ⭘ ‘Sanctity of Treaties, 1796’ ⭘ ‘The Bloom was on the Alder and the Tassel on the Corn’ ⭘ ‘The Declaration of Independence’ ⭘ ‘Washington’s Address to His Soldiers, 1776’ ⭘ ‘The General Government and the States’ ⭘ ‘What Saved the Union’ ⭘ ‘The Birthday of Washington’ ⭘ ‘Oh! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?’ ⭘ ‘Columbus in Chains’ ⭘ ‘The Bivouac of the Dead’ ⭘ ‘Address at the Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery’ ⭘ ‘Memory’ ⭘ ‘All Quiet Along the Potomac’ ⭘ ‘A Life on the Ocean Wave’ ⭘ ‘The Blue and the Gray’ ⭘ ‘Roll-call’ ⭘ ‘Theology in the Quarters’ ⭘ ‘Ruin Wrought by Rum’ ⭘ ‘To a Skeleton’ ⭘ ‘Pledge with Wine’ ⭘ ‘Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua’ ⭘ ‘The Crabbed Man’ ⭘ ‘Putting up O’ the Stove’ ⭘ ‘The Poor Indian!’ ⭘ ‘Jenkins Goes to a Picnic’ ⭘ ‘Sewing on a Button’ ⭘ ‘Casey at the Bat’ ⭘ ‘The Magical Isle’ ⭘ ‘Stray Bits of Character’ FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS. WHOSE WRITINGS, BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS APPEAR IN THIS VOLUME. Abbott, Lyman. Adams, Charles Follen, (_Yawcob Strauss_). Adams, Wm. T., (_Oliver Optic_). Alcott, Louisa May. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Alger, Horatio, Jr. Anthony, Susan B. Artemus Ward, (_Charles F. Browne_). Austin, Jane Goodwin. Bancroft, George H. Barr, Amelia E. Beecher, Henry Ward. Bellamy, Edward. Bill Nye (_Edgar Wilson Nye_). Browne, Charles F., (_Artemus Ward_).¹ Bryant, William Cullen. ♦Burdette, Robert J. ♦ ‘Burdett’ replaced with ‘Burdette’