A COUNTRY SUNDAY. _Joseph Addison_ 38 THE KING OF GLORY 43 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. _Edward Everett Hale_ 44 LOVE OF COUNTRY. _Sir Walter Scott_ 55 THE HEROINE OF NANCY 55 HUMANITY. _William Cowper_ 62 AN ICEBERG. _Richard Henry Dana, Jr._ 63 JOHN MILTON 66 DEATH OF SAMSON. _John Milton_ 71 SONG ON A MAY MORNING. _John Milton_ 73 ON HIS BLINDNESS. _John Milton_ 74 A CHEERFUL SPIRIT. _Sir John Lubbock_ 75 THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW 76 THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. _Theodore O’Hara_ 79 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. _Thomas Gray_ 82 BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST 89 THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC. _Francis Parkman_ 94 THE STARLING. _Laurence Sterne_ 100 THE BELFRY PIGEON. _Nathaniel Parker Willis_ 105 LADY UNA AND THE LION. _Edmund Spenser_ 107 PURITY OF CHARACTER 112 DELIGHTS OF READING. _Sir John Lubbock_ 113 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. _Alfred Tennyson_ 116 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 117 THE THREE CASKETS. _William Shakespeare_ 123 QUOTATIONS FROM SHAKESPEARE 132 SHAKESPEARE’S POETRY. _Francis Jeffrey_ 133 HOME. _Henry W. Grady_ 135 A PALACE IN A VALLEY. _Dr. Samuel Johnson_ 139 TRUE HEROISM 146 THE PEN. _Edward Bulwer Lytton_ 147 CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON. _George Bancroft_ 148 NATIONAL HYMN. _Samuel Francis Smith_ 155 THE LARK IN THE GOLD-FIELDS. _Charles Reade_ 157 SWEET HOME. _John Howard Payne_ 165 ANTONY’S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS. _Shakespeare_ 165 THE TWO ROADS. _Jean Paul Richter_ 170 NAPOLEON’S GREATNESS. _William Ellery Channing_ 173 THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. _Robert Southey_ 177 THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 195