The Aldine Reciter. Modern poetry for the platform, the home, and the school. With hints on public speaking, etc

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THE ALDINE RECITER. MODERN POETRY. FOR the Platform, the Home, and the School. WITH HINTS ON PUBLIC SPEAKING, ELOCUTION, ACTION, ARTICULATION, PITCH, MODULATION, &c, &c. BY ALFRED H. MILES. London : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co., Stationers' Hall Court; HAMILTON, ADAMS & Co., Paternoster Row. Manchester : JOHN HEYWOOD. Edinburgh and Glasgow : MENZIES & Co. Printed by JHazell Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury, CONTENTS. PAGE Portrait (.Frontispiece) Title Page .......... . i Contents Page ......... iii Preface ............ v Index to Authors. ......... ix Alphabetical Index .......... xi Classified Index ............ xv Standard Index .......... xxi Introduction on Elocution ....... xxv The Origin and Classification of Poetry ....... xlvi Explanation of Terms ......... . xlviii English Versification . xlix English Poetry (William Wordsworth to John Clare) . .

Section I. American Poetry (Benjamin Franklin to James T. Fields) . II. English Poetry (Felicia Hemans to Elizabeth B. Browning) . . Ill Scotch Poetry (Sir Walter Scott to Robert Buchanan) . . ., IV. Miscellaneous Poetry (George R. Sims, W. S. Gilbert, etc) . ,, V. IX xxi

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The Aldine Reciter aims to be the most com prehensive collection of modern poems for Public Recital or Private Reading yet in cluded in one volume. It is also an attempt to reproduce all the best and most popular of the pieces which have appeared in the Editor's folio reciters, with numerous additions, in a more con venient and permanent form, the size of the type, the shape of the page, and the thickness of the paper having been determined with a view to securing the maximum quantity and conveni ence at the minimum cost. Campbell, Motherwell, Mackey, Tennant, Blackie, Ballantine, and numerous other Scotch poets of the century.

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is Miscellaneous, and com prises popular pieces by living authors, George R. Sims, Jean Ingelow, Clement Scott, W. A. Eaton, Hamilton Aide, W. S. Gilbert, W. C. Bennett, etc., etc., also a number of anonymous pieces which have become favourites. The whole is prefaced by an essay upon elocu tion, which aims at helping the reciter to under stand his art, and enabling him to employ it with comfort to himself and pleasure to his hearers. It is written in popular form, and is not intended in any way to supersede the oral instruction of the professor, but rather to help those who may not have the advantage of com petent instruction to apprehend and apply the principles of elocution. This essay deals with the importance of elocutionary study, treats of public speaking, gives hints as to the selection of pieces for recitation, on studying them for public representation, on platform deportment, action, delivery, pitch, articulation, inflection, emphasis, modulation, pause and pace.

Agreeably to the purpose of the volume, dramatic and narrative poetry take precedence of lyrical and didactic, though numerous examples will be found of each. Almost every style of poetic composition has been laid under contribu tion, and every variety of taste catered for. The work is divided into five sections, each complete in itself, and dealing with a distinct period of literary production ; these sections are prefaced by brief critical and biographical notices, which make them in their measure and degree text books of the periods they cover.

Section I

is devoted to English Poetry from William Wordsworth to John Clare, and includes representative selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and the other poets of their time. A short chapter on the origin and classification of poetry has been included, and a brief "Explanation of Poetic Terms"; also a chapter on " English Versification," reprinted from "Readings in Poetry," by the kind per mission of Messrs. Longman and Co., which will be found a valuable help to the understanding of verse structure, and hence to the due observance of rhythm.

Section II

deals with American Poetry (1706-188S), and covers, as far as possible within its limits, the whole period of American poetry, commencing with Benjamin Franklin, J. G. Adams, and John Pierpoint, and concluding with Hans Breitmann, Will Carleton, and Bret Harte. In making the various selections, the platform has been kept steadily in view, and although some poems have been included which are of a more philosophic or reflective character than are usually selected for public recital, they will be found to be specially representative of their several authors, and to afford excellent opportunities for elocutionary study ; they may thus be made valuable means of preparation for more dramatic efforts.

Section III

includes English Poetry from Felicia Hemans to Elizabeth Barrett Brown ing, and deals with the period in which .hzfioeiess first claimed and secured foremost literary rank. Besides the ladies named, Letitia E. Maclean, Maria J. Jewsbury, and Mary Howitt are repre sented in this section.

Section IV

embraces Scotch Poetry (1801-1888), commencing with the works of Sir Walter Scott and James Montgomery, and ending with those of George Macdonald and Robert Buchanan, including selections from Aytoun, The arrangement of the authors is, as far as possible, chronological, thus enabling the student in some measure to trace the development of poetry through different periods. VI

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. To facilitate the use of these contents several indices have been prepared. (i) An Index of Authors ; (2) An Alphabetical Index ; (3) A Classified Index, in which the pieces are grouped under subject titles as a guide to selection ; and (4) A Standard Index, in which the number of lines in each piece is given. for them if he desires. This plan is adopted in every cast where lines are omitted, and great care has been taken to omit only such lines as are accessory and non-essential, obscure, or ob jectionable In the very few instances in which a word has been altered the word substituted has been italicised, that the responsibility may be transferred from the author to the editor. Of the longer entire poems included, Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" may be mentioned; also Macaulay 's " Lays of Ancient Rome," which are given, with suggestions for abbreviation where the whole may be deemed too long for recital.

Many other famous poems will be found in this division, Atherstone's " Last Days of Herculaneum," Whiteside's "Karl the Martyr," Robert Buchanan's "Phil Blood's Leap," Lord Lytton's translation of Schiller's " Diver," Aytoun's " Exe cution of Montrose," Bell's, " Mary Queen of Scots," Southey's "Miracle of the Roses," Adelaide Procter's " Legend of Bregenz," etc., etc, etc. The Index of Authors indicates in which part of the volume the selections from the different poets are located, detailed indices of their several pieces being prefixed to the sections to which they belong. The Alphabetical Index shows most readily where definite pieces may be found, and gives a complete list of the nearly six hundred and fifty examples contained in the volume. The Classified Index displays the nature of these contents.

Ballads and Narrative Poems will be seen to occupy a large portion of the volume, the former including many of the best English, Scotch, and American ballads of the century, and the latter a host of the best stories in verse that the united literature's can supply. Among the latter are some of Long fellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn," arranged both for separate recital and for dramatic rendering ; also specially and carefully selected excerpts from Sir Walter Scott's " Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," " Lady of the Lake," " Lord of the Isles," etc., in which the chief episodes of the several poems are given, with sufficient of the context to render them complete in themselves, and with suggestions for abbreviation for public recital. Other long poems have been treated in the same way.

William Tennant's " Anster Fair," a poem far too little known south of the Tweed, is divided into five pieces, bearing the titles "Maggie Lauder," "The Gathering," "The Donkey Race," "The Sack Race," and " The Bagpipe Competition," each complete in itself, and the whole taken to gether giving the substance of the entire poem, telling how, under the auspices of good King James, the sports went off at " Anster Fair," when Rob the Ranter carried all before him and won fair Maggie Lauder's heart and hand. Kirke White's "Clifton Grove," Byron's "Mazeppa," Keats' "Eve of St. Agnes," etc., etc., are all given with but slight abbreviation, dots thus .... indicating the lines that are omitted, so that the student can easily refer to the complete work The Biblical pieces will be found to in clude some beautiful reproductions of Bible stories, notably those of N. P. Willis, entitled "Absalom," "The Healing of Jairus' Daughter," "The Leper," " Jephthah's Daughter," and "The Widow of Nain," Mrs. Alexander's " Burial of Moses," Heber's "Passage of the Red Sea," Geldart's " How Barzillai served the King," and Felicia Hemans' "Hebrew Mother."

To these are added excerpts from John Keble's " Chris tian Year," Robert Pollok's "Course of Time," and Dean Milman's " Belshazzar," etc. The Descriptive Pieces include " The In vitation " from Shelley's " Epipsychidion," " The Famine" from Longfellow's "Hiawatha," " The Battle " and " The Banquet " from Aird's "Nebuchadnezzar," " Holyrood " and "Christ mas" from Scott's "Marmion," "The Chase" from " The Lady of the Lake,'' " Lake Coriskin " from " The Lord of the Isles," "The Field of Waterloo," " The Ocean," etc., from " Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," " The Death of Gertrude " from Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming," Heber's " Evening Walk in Bengal," Southey's " Cataract of Ladore," Shelley's " Cloud," and many other fine pieces of descriptive writing. Headed Domestic, is a list of pieces of the homely type, such as George R Sims' " Life boat," Will Carleton's " Betsey and I are Out," " Out of the Old House, Nancy," " Over the Hil!

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. VII to the Poor-house," etc., Leighton's " Bapteese ment of the Bairn," Charles Dickens' "The Children," Charles Lamb's "The Three Friends," Farmer's " Little Jim," George Macdonald's " Baby," etc., etc. Buchanan's "Wedding of Shon Maclean" and " Wake of O'Hara," besides numerous specimens of Scotch and American humour from the pens of William Tennant, James Ballantine, Sir A. Boswell, Robert Leighton, Alexander Rodger, Robert Nichol, W. Allan Butler, James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles G. Leland (Hans Breitmann), James Russell Lowell, and John G. Saxe, and many excellent anonymous pieces which have gained public favour. The Fables and Allegories include John Clare's "Birds and St. Valentine," Mrs. Sig ourney's " Flora's Party," J. G. Adams' " Plague in the Forest," Mary Howitt's " Spider and the Fly," Montgomery's "Adventure of a Star," Lewis' " Princess and the Slave," and other poems of a similar character.

Love, the inspiration of so much poetry, is represented by some of its most perfect examples. Coleridge's beautiful " Love : a Tale," Elizabeth Barrett Browning's " Bertha in the Lane " ana " Romaunt of the Page," Longfellow's " Hiawatha's Wooing," "Emma and Eginhard," "Lady Wentworth,'' "The Falcon of Sir Federigo," Wordsworth's " Laodama," Keats' " Eve of St. Agnes," Holmes' " Mysterious Illness," Lydia Sigourney 's " Oriska," and Leigh Hunt's " Story of Rimini," maybe named among the more important of these. Fancy and Imagination group Coleridge's " Ancient Mariner," Edgar Allan Poe's " Bells " and " The Raven," Horace Smith's " Address to a Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition," etc., N. P. Willis' "The Alchymist " and "Parrhasius," M. G. Lewis' "The Maniac'' and "The Felon," Tom Hood's " Dream of Eugene Aram," Ebene zer Elliott's " Wharncliffe,'1 and kindred poems.

Heroism brings together the pieces which chronicle the doings and the sufferings of the heroic in various walks of life. Lloyd's " How the Miners of Pontypridd Fought with Death," Whiteside's " Karl the Martyr," Clement Scott's " Story of a Stowaway," Hemans' " Casa bianca " and " Gertrude Von der Wart," Stains bury's " How he saved St. Michael's," Miles " Nail the Colours to the Mast," Eaton's " Fire man's Wedding," etc., etc. ; and Bearing the headings Moral and Religious and Nature will be found the pieces respectively which express moral and religious sentiment and depict the various aspects of nature. In the former, such pieces as Wilcox's " Activity, the Source of Happiness," Miles's " A Little Help Worth a Great Deal of Pity," Mackay's " Ivy in the Dungeon," Mrs. Abdy's " Street of Bye-and-bye," Saxe's "Where there's a Will there's a Way " take rank, and in the latter Alaric Watts' " Ætna,'' Clare's " Nightingale's Nest," Shelley's "Skylark," Elliott's "Wonders of the Lane," Bryant's " Death of the Flowers," etc., etc.

Home and Fatherland serves for a title to head those pieces which illustrate the universality of the sentiment of "Home, sweet Home": Drake's "American Flag," Emerson's "Boston" and "Boston Hymn," Mrs. Hemans' "Homes of England," "Sicilian Captive," and "England's Dead," Bryant's "African Chief" and "The Last of the Red Men," Longfellow's " Indian Hunter" and "Slave's Dream," Robert Cham bers' "Scotland," Montgomery's "Home" and "Arnold Winkelreid," Campbell's " Hohen linden " and " Fall of Poland," and other poems expressing patriotism and love of country. Life and Character gives title to a classification which comprises pieces illustrative of life and character in varied aspects. John Clare's "Vanities of Life," Southey's " Alderman's Fune ral," Hood's " Bridge of Sighs " and " Song of the Shirt," B. W. Proctor's "History of a Life," O. W. Holmes's "The Last Leaf," and Mrs. Sigourney's "Man's Three Guests" may be cited as examples of the one, and W. M. Praed's "Quince "and "The Vicar," Charles Mackay's "John Littlejohn" and "Tubal Cain," J. R. Lowell's " The Heritage," and W. E. Aytoun's " Old Scottish Cavalier," of the other.

Humour, always in request for public purposes, is represented by the best compositions of a long line of brilliant wits, extending from George Coleman the younger to Bret Harte. These include pieces by Dr. Walcott, John Taylor, James and Horace Smith, W. H. Harrison, Theodore Hook, copious selections from Tom Hood, the cream of the " Ingoldsby Legends," some of the best of Thackeray's satirical humour, two of W. S. Gilbert's " Bab Ballads," Robert Records of Women, a title borrowed from Mrs. Hemans, serves to cover numerous other stories of female heroism, besides those for which we are indebted to her chivalric pen : Whittier's

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. VIII because they afford excellent opportunities to accomplished elocutionists, and, it need hardly be added, their shortness does not make them suitable for juvenile use ; hence, while the Stan dard Index may be useful as a guide, it will still be necessary to exercise the judgment in its use. "Barbara Frietchie," Proctor's "Fight of Ravenna," Mrs. Hemans' " Lady of Provence " and "Marguerite of France," Miss Jewsbury's "Arria," Blackie's " Two Meek Margarets,'' and Thorpe's "Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night," are among these. Songs, Sports, and Temperance are each titles which sufficiently indicate the character of the pieces they cover. The dialogue as such has no place in this collection. It would have been impossible to include all that are entitled to a place without unduly increas ing the bulk of the volume.

For such the reader is referred to the editor's " Shakespeare Reciter," cloth is., paper covers, 6d., which contains care fully arranged selections from all the more important of Shakespeare's plays, with full directions for recital, in extended or abbreviated form. Thus the play of Hamlet, for instance, is brought within the limits of drawing-room performance, by being arranged in a series ot scenes complete in themselves, which may be performed separately, in groups, or in theii entirety, as time may allow or circumstances determine. An index showing the number ot characters, male and lemale, required for each scene, facilitates selection. The " A I Book of Dialogues," etc., cloth is. 6d., paper 6d., produced under the same auspices, contains a number of dialogues, proverbs for acting set pieces, tableaux, etc., etc., which will be found to some extent to meet the want in this respect, and which, together with the " Shakespeare Reciter," and other issues of the same kind, will ultimately form a second volume of this work.

War gathers in its train the battle pieces of which the poets have provided such splendid examples: Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic," Byron's " Battle " from " The Siege of Corinth," Hemans' "Battle of Morgarten," Clement Scott's " Midnight Charge," Praed's " Marston Moor," and numerous other pieces represent the stern and chivalrous aspects of war, while Williams' " After Balaclava," Willson's "Old Sergeant," Mrs. Norton's " Bingen on the Rhine," and Ethel Lynn's " Our Folks " illustrate its pathetic side These classifications have been made with considerable care, though they do not pretend to be exhaustive. As will be seen on examina tion, many pieces assert their claim to appear under more than one heading, and in some cases the claim has been allowed. The " Standard " Index is formed to meet the requirements of the various examinations for scholars and pupil-teachers, and with this view the pieces are arranged in their order of length, and a column is added in which the number oi lines is given in each case.

The pupil-teachers of the Board Schools are' required to com mit to memory fifty, eighty, and one hundred lines for their successive examinations, while the scholars have to learn twenty, forty, sixty, eighty, one hundred, and one hundred and fifty to pass their several standards. Other examinations require the recital of pieces of various lengths, and it is hoped that this index will greatly help those who are called upon to make selections for such purposes. To those who are inexperienced it may be perhaps well to point out that length is not the only standard of difficulty, and that some short pieces are much more difficult than others which are longer, also that lines vary in length, and that fifty lines of one measure may be much longer than a hundred lines of another. Some short pieces, moreover, have been included in this volume The various sections of this volume are published in separate form, in cloth books, price one shilling each, under the following titles : — Section I., "The English Reciter;" II., "The American Reciter;" III., "The Victoria Reciter;" IV, "The Scotch Reciter;" V, "The 188S Reciter."

The Editor desires to record his great obli gations to authors and publishers for their kind permission to include valuable copyrights in this collection. Detailed acknowledgment will be found in the introductions to the several sections, but a general recognition of the kindness uniformly shown is due here. By this courtesy the labour of production has been lightened, and the value of the volume guaranteed. INDEX TO AUTHORS. Section Page Section Page Abdy, Mrs III. . . 31, 32 Abdy, Mrs V. . . 83 Adams, Charles F. . . .. II. .. 113 Adams, John Gurney . . II. . . 6 Aide, Hamilton . . . . V. . . 24 Aird, Thomas . . . . IV. . . 97 Aldrich, Thomas B. .. II. .. 112 Alexander, Mrs. C. F. . . V. . . 74 Allan, Robert . . . . IV. . . 46 Allston, Washington . . II. 8 Arkwright, Peleg . . . . V. . . 80 Arnot, Rev. W V. 9 Atherstone, Edwin . .

I. . . 92 Aytoun, W. E. . . . . IV. 108, 109 Ballantine, James . . . . IV. 104, 105 Barham, Richard Harris I. 103-113 Barton, Bernard . . . . I. . . 68-70 Bayly. Thomas Haines . . III. . . 40-42 Beavan, Harriet A. . . V . . 76 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell III. 106, 107 Bell, Henry Glassford . . IV. 99-102 Bennett, William Cox .. V. .. 14, 15 Blackie, John Stuart . . IV. 106, 107 Blanchard, S. Laman . . III. 107, 10S Boker, George Henry . . II. . . 67, 68 Boswell, Sir A. . . . . IV. . . 46-48 Bowles, Caroline .. I. .. 87,88 Brainard, J. G. C II. .. 10,11 Breitmann, Hans ... .. II. 125-127 Brown, Emma Alice . . V. . . 79 Browne. M. A. . . . . III. . . 37 Browning, E. B III. 121-128 Bryant, William Cullen II. . . 20-22 Buchanan, Robert. . .. IV. 123-128 Butler, William Allan . . II. . . 91 Byron (Lord) .. ..

I. ..94-102 Campbell, Thomas . . . . IV. . . 52-59 Carleton, William M. .. II. 115-124 Carrick, John Donald . . IV. . . 84 Cary, Alice . . . . . . II. . . 90 Cary, Phœbe . . . . II. . . 88, 89 Chambers, Robert.. .. IV. .. 95 Chorley, Henry Fothergil III. .. 114 Chorley, J. R IIJ. .. 117 Chorley, W. B III. 115,116 Christie, Rev. W. J. . . V. . . 47 Clare, John I. 125-128 Coleman, George . . . . V. . . 95, 96 Coleridge, Hartley . . III. . . 38 Coleridge, Samuel Tayj-.or I. . . 23-31 Cornwall, Barry.. .. I. 114-116 Cowper, William . . . . V. . . 90 Craik, Mrs. .. .. .. V. .. 21 Cunningham, Allan . . IV. . . 77-79 Dickens, Charles .. .. V. .. 13 Doane, George W. . . .. II. .. 12 Drake, Joseph Rol:.:an . . II. . . 8 Eaton, W. A. . . . . V. . . 49, 50 Elliott, Ebenezer . . . . I. . . 59-64 Emerson, Ralph Waldo . .

II. . . 24-26 Farmer, E. . . . . . . V. . . 79 Fields, James T. . . . . II. . . 128 Finlay, John . . . . IV. . . 61 Franklin, Benjamin . . II. . . 5 Gall, Richard . . . . IV. . . 49 Geldart, S. R. . . . . V. . . 75 Gilbert, William Schwenck V. . . 22 Greene, Albert G. . . .. II. .. 23 Griffin, Gerald . . . . V. . . 67, 68 Groser, Horace G. . . . . V. . . 43-46 Halleck, Fitz-Greene . . II. . . 9 Harrison, William H. . . III. . . 23-29 Harte, Bret .. .. H. 101-107 Hay, Colonel John . . II. . . 100 Hayne, Paul H II. .. 96 Heber, Reginald . . . . I. . . 65-67 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea III. . . 5-23 Hervey, Thomas Kibble . . JY. . . 91, 92 Holmes, Oliver Wendell It. . . 69, 75 Hood, Thomas . . . . III. . . 43-56 Hook, Edward Theodore. . I. .. 90-92 Houghton, Richard (Lord) III. 120, 121 Howitt, Mary .. ..

III. .. 63-69 Howitt, William .. .. 1:1. .. 62 Hunt, Leigh 1. .. 71-79 Hunter, H. E. .. .. V. .. 31 Hyslop, James . . . . IV. . . 93 Ingelow, Jean . . . . V. . . 25 Ingoldsby, Thomas .. I. 103-113 Jewsbury, Maria Jane . . III. .. 61-62 Keats, John III. . . 33-36 Keble, John I. 118,119 Beavan, Harriet A. INDEX TO AUTHORS. X Section Page Section Page Kennedy, William . . . . IV. . . 90 Knowles, Herbert . . III. . . 56 Laing, Alexander . . . . IV. . . 82, 83 Lamb, Charles . . . . I. . . 42-44 Landor, Walter Savage.. I. .. 45 Langbridge, Rev. Frederick V. . . 86-88 Larcom, Lucy .. .. II. .. no Le Fanu, J. Sheridan . . V. . . 70 Leigh, Henry S V. . . 94 Leighton, Robert .. .. IV. 11 7-1 19 Leland, Charles G. .. II. 125-127 Lewis, Matthew Gregory I. . . 56-59 Lloyd, Henry .. .. V. .. 51-57 Lockhart, John Gibson . .

IV. . . 86 Longfellow, Henry W. . . II. . . 32-57 Lowell, James Russell . . II. . . 94, 95 Lynn, Ethel .. .. II. .. 112 Lytton, Edward (Lord) .. III. 109-111 Lytton, Edward (Lord) . . V. . . 18 L. E. L III. . .94, 101 Macaulay (Lord) .. .. III. .. 70-S9 Macdonald, George .. IV. 120-122 Mackay, Charles .. .. IV. 114-116 Maclean, Letitia E. .. III. 94-101 Miles, Alfred Henry . . V. . . 34-41 Miller, Hugh . . . . IV. . . 96 Miller, Thomas .. .. III. .. 119 Mills, Henry . . . . II. . . 100 Milman, Henry Hart .. I. 116,117 Mitford, Mary Russell . . I. . . 89 Moir, David Macbeth . . IV. . . 92 Montgomery, James . . IV. . . 41-44 Montgomery, Robert .. III. 112, 113 Morris, George P. . . . . II. . . 77 Motherwell, William . . IV. . . 87-90 Moultrie, Rev. John . . III. . . 91, 92 Nicholson, William . .

IV. . . 60 Nicoll, Robert .. .. IV. 110-113 Norton, Hon. Caroline . . V. . . 69 Payne, John Howard .. II. .. 11 Peacock, Thomas Love . . I. . . 86 Percival, James G .. II. .. 12 Pierpont, John . . . . II. . . 7 Planche, James Robinson III. . . 39 Poe, Edgar Allan . . . . II. . . 64-66 Pollok, Robert . . . . IV. . . 93 Praed, W. M. . . . . III. 102-105 Preston, Margaret J. . . II. . . 99 Procter, Adelaide Anne . . V. . . 28, 29 Procter, Bryan Waller . . I. 114-116 Read, Thomas Buchanan . . II. . . 77 Rodger, Alexander . . IV. . . 74-76 Rogers, Samuel .. .. V. .. 89 Russell, Lord John . . III. . . 33 Saxe, John Godfrey . . II. . . 78-87 Scott, Clement William .. V. . . 16, 17 Scott, Sir Walter. . .. IV. .. 540 Sharman, Samuel Russell V. . . 62-64 Shelley, Percy Bysshe .. I. 120-124 Shirley, Arthur . . . .

V. . . 27 Sigourney, Lydia H. . . II- . . I3_I8 Sigourney, Major . . . . II. . . 99 Sims, George Robert . . V. . . 5"7 Smedley, Menella Bute . . V. . . 26 Smith, Harriet . . . . V. . . 30 Smith, Horace . . . . I. . . 47-55 Smith, James . . . . I. • . 45'46 Snow, Sophia P. . . V. . . 84 Southey, Robert . . . . I. . . 32-41 Southey, Mrs I. . . 87-88 Sprague, Charles . . . . II. . . 9 Stansbury, Mary A. P. V. . . 61 Stoddard, Richard Henry II. . . 97 Stone, Rev. S. J V. . . 42 Street, Alfred B. . . . . II. . . 76 Strickland, Agnes . . III. . . 93 Struthers, John .. .. IV. .. 51 Tannahill, Robert . . IV. . . 44-46 Taylor, Bayard . . . . II. . . 96 Taylor, John .. .. V. .. 91-93 Taylor, Sir Henry . . III. . . 90 Tennant, William . . . . IV. . . 62-73 Thackera y, William MakepeaceV. .. 10-12 Thaxter, Celia .. ..

II. .. in Thorpe, Rose Hartwick .. II. .. 114 Train, Joseph .. .. IV. .. 51 Trench, Richard Chenevix III. m, 112 Trowbridge, J. T. . . . . II. . . g8 Vedder, David . . . . IV. . . 84 Watts, Alaric Alexander III. . . 57-59 Watts, Mrs. A III. . . 60 Wells, William . . . . V. . . 58 White, Henry Kirke . . I. . . 79-83 Whiteside, Frances . . V. . . 59. Whittier, John Greenleaf II. . . 27-32 Wilcox, Carlos . . . . H. . . 7 Wilde, Richard Henry .. II. .. u Williams, James . . . . V. . . 60 Willis, Nathaniel Parker II. . . 58-63 Willson, Byron Forceythe II. .. ios Wilson, John . . . . IV. . . yg Wolcott, John . . . . V. . . 97, 98 Wolfe, Rev. Charles . . V. . . 00 Wordsworth, William . . I. , , 5.22 ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Section Page Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel Leigh Hunt. I. ... 79 Absalom N. P. Willis.

II. ... 58 Abu Midjan C. Macdonald. IV. ... 120 Activity the Source of Happiness ,.C. Wilcox. II. ... 7 Address to a Mummy Horace Smith. I% ... 49 Address to Sarcophagus Horace Smith. I. ... 50 Adopted Child, The Felicia Hemans. III. ... 22 Adventure of a Star, The J. Montgomery. IV. ... 42 Ætna (a Sketch) Alaric Watts. III. ... 58 African Chief, The i W.C.Bryant. II. ... 20 After an Old Legend G. Macdonald. IV. ... 122 After Balaclava James Williams. V. ... 60 Alarm, The Anonymous. V. ... 68 A Lassie Cam' to our Gate Robert Allan. IV. ... 46 A Little Help Alfred H. Miles. V. ... 37 Alchymist, The N. P. Willis. II. ... 62 Alderman's Funeral, The Southey. I. ... 34 Alice W^". H. Harrison. III. ... 23 Alice du Clos, or the Forked Tongue Coleridge. I. ... 29 Allen-a-Dale Scott. IV. ... 40 All's Well that Ends Well Anonymous.

V. ... 107 Alma, The R. C. \Trench. III. ... 112 Alonzo the Brave M. G.Lewis. I. ... 56 A Maiden's Meditations Robert Nicoll. IV. ... 112 America to Great Britain W. Allston. II. ... 8 American Flag, The J. R. Drake. II. ... 8 An Evening Walk in Bengal Heber. I. ... 66 Angeland \.h&Q___\d,T_\z Edward, Lord Lytton. III. ... in Answer, The A. Rodger. IV. ... 76 Apple Dumplings and a King, The ...Wotcott. V. ... 98 Archie Allen Alexander Laing. IV. ... 82 Archy o' Kilspindie .John Pin lay, IV. ... 61 Armada, The (a Fragment) Macaulay. III. ... 88 Arnold Winkelreid J. Montgomery. IV. ... 42 Arria M. J. Jewsbury. III. ... 62 Artist Born Harriet Smith. V. ... 30 Artist's Studio, The L. E. L. III. ... 98 Aspiring1 Miss De Laine Bret Harte. II. ... 104 Astronomical Alderman, The ...Horace Smith. I. ... 54 Auctioneer and Lawyer, The ...Horace Smith.