TABLE OF CONTENTS. LESSONS IN PROSE. The names of American writers are in small capitals. 47. Description of the Custom of Whitewashing.. . HOPKINSON. 109 59. Portrait of a worldly-minded Woman... 60. Portrait of a selfish Woman 62. Extracts from "A Father's Legacy"... 63. The same, concluded.... 65. A Family Scene.... 66. The same, concluded.. 67 Local Associations. .FREEMAN. 137 IBID. 140 Gregory. 146 IBID. 148 Miss Ferrier. 153 ......Ibid. 156 ....OTIS. 160 Female Sex 72. On the relative Value of Good Sense and Beauty in the 78. A Solid and a Superficial Education contrasted... Ruhnken. 180 85. Candor, in or, in estimating the Attainments of others. FREEMAN. 198 123. Baneful Effects of Intemperance 125. The Uncalled Avenger .. 146. Dignity and Excellence of the Poetical Art .... CHANNING. 324 147. Popular Institutions favorable to Intellectual Improve- 45. God's First Temples BRYANT. 104 46. Morning Hymn Milton. 107 49 The Flight of Xerxes Miss Jewsbury. 115 50. Pairing Time anticipated Cowper. 116 54 The Tear of Penitence Moore. 125 56. Melancholy Fate of the Indians SPRAGUE. 132 57. Concluding Lines of the "Fall of the Indian"..MCLELLAN. 135 58. Death-Song of Outalissi Campbell. 136 61. Fancy and Philosophy contrasted Beattie. 142 New Monthly Magazine. 151 68. To Seneca Lake PERCIVAL. 162- GOODRICH. 163 64. To a Log of Wood upon the Fire 69. Lake Superior 71. A Scene in a private Mad-House 73. Maternal Affection 74. Napoleon at Rest 75. The Warrior 76. War 77. The Battle of Blenheim 79. Conversation 82. The Vulture of the Alps 83. Song of the Stars 84. Domestic Love 87. Curiosity 88. The Love of Country and of Home 89. Columbus in Chains 94. The Pilgrim Fathers 95. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers 96. Hymn.. 97. The Western World 101. The Death of Moses Lewis. 169 Mrs. Hemans. 173 PIERPONT. 174 Anonymous. 175 Porteus. 177 Southey. 178 Cowper. 186 Anonymous. 194 BRYANT. 196 Croly. 197 SPRAGUE. 203 Montgomery. 206 Miss Jewsbury. 207 SPRAGUE. 218 Mrs. Hemans. 221 102. Sonnet on the Entrance of the American Woods 103. Marco Bozzaris PIERPONT. 222 BRYANT. 223 Taylor. 233 Galt. 235 HALLECK. 236 104. Reflections of a Belle N. E. WEEKLY REVIEW. 238 111. To the Stars 112. Sabbath Morning 113. The Evening Cloud 114. Twilight 115. Perpetual Adoration 116. Music of Nature 121. The Recluse 122. Farewell to the Dead 124. Night,-a Field of Battle 126. Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouny.. Coleridge. 278 127. The Soldier's Widow 130. To the Evening Wind 131. To the Ursa Major 134. Parrhasius 135. The Soul's Defiance 136. Sonnet to the South Wind 140. Scene from Hadad 141. Immortality 144. Rome 145. Dialogue: Rienzi and Angelo 148. After a Tempest 149. The Rejected 150. Rhine Song of the German Soldiers 151. The Isles of Greece. 152. Liberty to Athens 154. The Dead Mother: a Dialogue 155. Burial of the Young 156. On the Loss of Professor Fisher in the Albion 157. The Sunday School 159. Trust in God 160. The Patriot's Wish 161. Summer Noon 162. Summer Wind 164. Lochiel's Warning.. 165. Joan of Arc in Rheims ......... 166. Raphael's Account of the Creation 167. Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard 168. Dialogue: Gesler and Tell 171. Order of Nature 172. A Sister pleading for the Life of a Brother 173. The Passions 175. Darkness 178. The Sword 179. Address to the Deity 180. God 81. Scene from "The Vespers of Palermo" 182. Address to Light |