Chapter 2

PAGE PAGE, THOMAS NELSON The Torch of Civilization 861

PALMER, GEORGE M. The Lawyer in Politics 872

PALMERSTON, LORD (HENRY JOHN TEMPLE) Illusions Created by Art 876

PAXTON, JOHN R. A Scotch-Irishman's Views of the Puritan 880

PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN Farewell Address 887

PINERO, ARTHUR WING The Drama 892

PORTER, HORACE Men of Many Inventions 897 How to Avoid the Subject 904 A Trip Abroad with Depew 908 Woman 913 Friendliness of the French 919 The Citizen Soldier 924 The Many-Sided Puritan 928 Abraham Lincoln 931 Sires and Sons 935 The Assimilated Dutchman 939 Tribute to General Grant 944

PORTER, NOAH Teachings of Science and Religion 950

POTTER, HENRY CODMAN The Church 955

PRYOR, ROGER ATKINSON Virginia's Part in American History 959

QUINCY, JOSIAH Welcome to Dickens 964

RAYMOND, ANDREW V. V. The Dutch as Enemies 970

READ, OPIE P. Modern Fiction 976

REID, WHITELAW The Press--Right or Wrong 979 Gladstone, England's Greatest Leader 981

ROBBINS, W. L. The Pulpit and the Bar 985

ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY The Press 988

ROOSA, D. B. ST. JOHN The Salt of the Earth 992

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE The Hollander as an American 998 True Americanism and Expansion 1002

ROSEBERY, LORD (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE) Portrait and Landscape Painting 1008

SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS Friend and Foe 1014

SALISBURY, LORD (ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE-CECIL) Kitchener in Africa 1018

SAMPSON, WILLIAM THOMAS Victory in Superior Numbers 1023

SCHENCK, NOAH HUNT Truth and Trade 1026

SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT The Navy in Peace and in War 1031

SCHLIEMANN, HEINRICH The Beginnings of Art 1034

SCHURZ, CARL The Old World and the New 1036

SEWARD, WILLIAM H. A Pious Pilgrimage 1042

SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH The Army and Navy 1046 A Reminiscence of the War 1051

SMITH, BALLARD The Press of the South 1057

SMITH, CHARLES EMORY Ireland's Struggles 1059 The President's Prelude 1062

SPENCER, HERBERT The Gospel of Relaxation 1067

STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN America Visited 1073

STANLEY, HENRY MORTON Through the Dark Continent 1077

STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE Tribute to Richard Henry Stoddard 1085

STEPHEN, LESLIE The Critic 1091

STORRS, RICHARD SALTER The Victory at Yorktown 1094

STRYKER, WILLIAM SCUDDER Dutch Heroes of the New World 1104

SULLIVAN, SIR ARTHUR Music 1108

SUMNER, CHARLES Intercourse with China 1110 The Qualities that Win 1115

TALMAGE, THOMAS DEWITT Behold the American! 1122 What I Know about the Dutch 1128

TAYLOR, BAYARD Tribute to Goethe 1136

THOMPSON, SLASON The Ethics of the Press 1139

TILTON, THEODORE Woman 1142

TWICHELL, JOSEPH HOPKINS Yankee Notions 1147 The Soldier Stamp 1153

TYNDALL, JOHN Art and Science 1160

VAN DE WATER, GEORGE ROE Dutch Traits 1162

VERDERY, MARION J. The South in Wall Street 1168

WALES, PRINCE OF (ALBERT EDWARD) The Colonies 1175

WALLACE, HUGH C. The Southerner in the West 1178

WARD, SAMUEL BALDWIN The Medical Profession 1182

WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY The Rise of "The Atlantic" 1186

WATTERSON, HENRY Our Wives 1189 The Puritan, and the Cavalier 1191

WAYLAND, HEMAN LINCOLN The Force of Ideas 1197 Causes of Unpopularity 1201

WEBSTER, DANIEL The Constitution and the Union 1210

WHEELER, JOSEPH The American Soldier 1220

WHIPPLE, EDWIN PERCY China Emerging from Her Isolation 1225 The Sphere of Woman 1229

WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON Commerce and Diplomacy 1232

WILEY, HARVEY WASHINGTON The Ideal Woman 1240

WILSON, WOODROW Our Ancestral Responsibilities 1248

WINSLOW, JOHN The First Thanksgiving Day 1253

WINTER, WILLIAM Tribute to John Gilbert 1257 Tribute to Lester Wallack 1260

WINTHROP, ROBERT C. The Ottoman Empire 1263

WISE, JOHN SERGEANT Captain John Smith 1266 The Legal Profession 1271

WOLCOTT, EDWARD OLIVER The Bright Land to Westward 1273

WOLSELEY, LORD (GARNET JOSEPH WOLSELEY) The Army in the Transvaal 1280

WU TING-FANG China and the United States 1284

WYMAN, WALTER Sons of the Revolution 1288

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