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EGGLESTON, GEORGE CARY Southern Literature 423

ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM Harvard and Yale 427

ELIOT, SAMUEL A. The Source of Song and Story 431

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO England, Mother of Nations 437 The Memory of Burns 439 War 442 The Wisdom of China 445

EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL International Arbitration 448 The Republic and Its Outlook 452 The French Alliance 457 Tribute to Herbert Spencer 462 The Classics in Education 465 Liberty Enlightening the World 469

EWING, THOMAS C. Ohio and the Northwest 474

FARRAR, FREDERIC WILLIAM Poet and Painter 479

FELLOWS, JOHN R. North and South 482

FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY The Telegraph 490 Early Connecticut 493

FINCH, FRANCIS M. The Office of the Law 496

FOORD, JOHN The Land o' Cakes 500

FORD, SIMEON Me and Sir Henry 505 A Run on the Banker 507

FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY Men of Letters 510

FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON The Supreme Court 513

GARLAND, HAMLIN Realism versus Romanticism 518

GILBERT, JOHN Playing Old Men Parts 522

GILBERT, WILLIAM SCHWENK Pinafore 524

GILMAN, DANIEL COIT The Era of Universities 528

GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART The Age of Research 530

GRADY, HENRY W. The Race Problem 534

GRAND, SARAH Mere Man 551

GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON A Remarkable Climate 557 Characteristics of Newspaper Men 559 The Adopted Citizen 561

GRIGGS, JOHN WILLIAM Social Discontent 564

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT The Mission of Culture 570 Boston 577

HALL, WILLIAM F. Yarn of the Manager Bold 581

HALSTEAD, MURAT Our New Country 584

HARRISON, BENJAMIN The Union of States 589

HAWLEY, JOSEPH ROSWELL The Press 593

HAY, JOHN Omar Khayyam 598

HAYES, RUTHERFORD B. National Sentiments 601

HENDRIX, JOSEPH C. The Wampum of the Indians 603

HERSCHELL, LORD Great Britain and the United States 609

HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN The Influence of Men of Genius 616

HOLE, SAMUEL REYNOLDS With Brains, Sir! 622

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Welcome to the Alumni 625 Dorothy Q. 627

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR. Sons of Harvard Who Fell in Battle 630 The Joy of Life 645

HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) Your Speech and Ours 635 Bonds of National Sympathy 639

HOWE, JULIA WARD Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes 645

HOWELL, CLARK Our Reunited Country 647

HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN The "Atlantic" and Its Contributors 653

HOWLAND, HENRY ELIAS Russia 657 Our Ancestors and Ourselves 661

HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY Science and Art 670

INGERSOLL, ROBERT GREEN The Music of Wagner 672

IRVING, SIR HENRY Looking Forward 676 The Drama 678 The Function of the Newspaper 681

JEBB, RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE Literature and Art 686

JEFFERSON, JOSEPH My Farm in Jersey 688 In Memory of Edwin Booth 691

KITCHENER, LORD The Relief of Khartum 694

LANG, ANDREW Problem Novels 698

LAURIER, WILFRID Canada 702

LAWRENCE, FRANK R. The Future of New York 705

LECKY, WILLIAM E. H. The Artistic Side of Literature 708

LEE, FITZHUGH The Flag of the Union Forever 710

LEIGHTON, SIR FREDERIC Variety in British Art 713

LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY Hans Breitmann's Return 717

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Central Ideas of the Republic 720

LODGE, HENRY CABOT The Blue and the Gray 723

LONG, JOHN DAVIS The Navy 727

LOW, SETH The Chamber of Commerce 731

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Harvard Alumni 737 National Growth of a Century 741 The Stage 745 Commerce 748 After-Dinner Speaking 750 "The Return of the Native" 753 Literature 758 International Copyright 761

LOWELL, JOHN Humors of the Bench 766

LYTTON, LORD (SIR EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON) Macready and the English Stage 769 Farewell to Charles Dickens 774

MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT Spirit of New England Literature 778

MACKAY, DONALD SAGE The Dutch Domine 782

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER C. Music 787

MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES Farewell to the Stage 791

McCARTHY, JUSTIN Ireland's Struggle 795

McCLURE, ALEXANDER KELLY An Editorial Retrospect 799

McKELWAY, ST. CLAIR Smashed Crockery 807 Tribute to Mark Twain 811

McKINLEY, WILLIAM Our Country 815 The Future of the Philippines 818

MELISH, WILLIAM B. The Ladies 825

MILES, NELSON APPLETON The Spanish-American War 831

MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN Federal Judges 834

MORLEY, JOHN Literature and Politics 838

MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP The Poets' Corner 842

NEWMAN, JOHN PHILIP Commerce 845

NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT Castles in Spain 850

OGLESBY, RICHARD The Royal Corn 853

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE Moore, the Bard of Erin 856

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