CONTENTS
Charles Wesley Emerson
Page.
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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