CONTENTS. PAGE 9 I. How I learned to write Prose..........Benjamin Franklin. II, Translation of the Twenty-third Psalm......Joseph Addison. 13 ........ XXXVI. The Effect of Paul's Preaching at Ephesus. Acts xix. 23-41. 101 XXXVII. The Coronach. ...Sir Walter Scott. 104 XXXVIII. How to render Sad Ideas. ..Mark Bailey. 106 XXXIX. The Pauper's Death-bed.... ....Caroline A. B. Southey. 108 XL. Mrs. Caudle urging the Need of Spring Clothing. Donglas W. Jerrold. 110 XLI. Under the Greenwood Tree... ....William Shakespeare. 114 XLII. Mexico as first seen by the Spaniards.. William H. Prescott. XLIII. Marmion and Douglas.. XLIV. Ascent of Mount Ktaadn... XLV. Virtue.. XLVI. Rules of Behavior.. XLVII. Morning Sounds.. XLVIII. Dialogue with the Gout.. XLIX. Absalom..... L. The Blind Preacher.. LI. America 115 .Sir Walter Scott. 118 Henry D. Thoreau. 121 George Herbert. 127. George Washington. 128 James Beattie. 134 Benjamin Franklin. 136 .N. P. Willis. 139 William Wirt. 144 Bishop Berkeley. 147 ..John Wilson. 148 LII. The Ascent to the Eagle's Nest.. LIII. The Descent from the Eagle's Nest..John Wilson. 153 LIV. The Hot Season........ . Oliver Wendell Holmes. 157 LV. How to render Scornful and Sarcastic Ideas. Mark Bailey. 159 |