CONTENTS

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Slide 7
Vital Slide 8
Slide in Volume 9
Forming Pictures 10
Chapter I.
Tact and Talent London Atlas 13
Shylock to Antonio William Shakespeare 15
The Cynic H. W. Beecher 16
Good By, Proud World R. W. Emerson 18
The Destruction of Sennacherib Lord Byron 19
Unwritten Music N. P. Willis 20
Laus Mortis Frederic Lawrence Knowles 23
Taxation of the Colonies Edmund Burke 24
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 29
Forest Scene From As You Like It William Shakespeare 30
Chapter II.
The Rising in 1776 T. B. Read 35
The Tent-Scene Between Brutus and Cassius William Shakespeare 39
The Forging of the Anchor S. Ferguson 43
Supposed Speech of John Adams Daniel Webster 48
Life and Song Sidney Lanier 53
Gathering Song of Donald the Black Sir Walter Scott 54
Nutting William Wordsworth 55
The Dodson Family George Eliot 58
After the March Kain William Wordsworth 66
Chapter III.
First Battles of the Revolution Edward Everett 67
The Antiquity of Freedom W. C. Byrant 70
National Bankruptcy Mirabeau 73
The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson 74
Tarpeia Louise Imogen Guiney 78
The Bells E. A. Poe 82
The Temperance Question Wendell Phillips 86
Sheridan's Ride T. B. Read 89
To a Pupil Walt Whitman 92
Chapter IV.
The Pickwickians on Ice Charles Dickens

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