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44 5.—ANECDOTES ABOUT Ants (I) Sir John Lubbock. 49 6.—ANECDOTES ABOUT ANTS (II).

53 8.—BENJAMIN WEST (I)

Nathaniel Hawthorne. 60 9.—BENJAMIN WEST (II)

64 11.—MOTHER NATURE'S FAIRIES .

Mary W. Allen. 71 12.—BEETHOVEN'S MOONLIGHT SONATA

77 14.—ELEPHANT HUNTING IN AFRICA (I) Sir S. W. Baker. 84 15.-ELEPHANT HUNTING IN AFRICA (II)

89 17.—BAMBOO (I).

A. R. Wallace. 96 18.-BAMBOO (II) ·

100 20.--AN ICEBERG

R. H. Dana, Jr. 106 21.—THE EMPEROR's New CLOTHES . Hans C. Andersen. 109

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M. F. Maury. 140 30.-THE FIRST NIGHT AT SCHOOL Thomas Hughes. 144 32.—THE SAGACITY OF THE SPIDER. Oliver Goldsmith. 152 33.–A GOOD INVESTMENT

Freeman Hunt. 158 35.—MRS. Caudle's UMBRELLA LECTURE . Douglas Jerrold. 166 36. -THE AMERICAN FLAG

Henry Ward Beecher. 170 38. -THE HURRICANE

John J. Audubon. 175 39.—Is TURTLE A Fish? .

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Benjamin F. Taylor. 201 45.-An Exploit of Sir WilliAM WALLACE. Sir W. Scott. 205 47.--NICHOLAS NICKLEBY LEAVING SCHOOL. Charles Dickens. 212 48.-MARK TWAIN'S WATCH

S. L. Clemens. 219 50.-AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE of Sir Walter RALEIGH (I) 227 51.- AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF Sir WALTER RALEIGH (II)

Sir Walter Scott. 232 53.-SCENES IN THE YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY W. F. Phelps. 239 5.4.--THE DISCOVERY OF PHOSPHORUS Rodney Welch. 243 56.—THE BURNING OF Moscow (I)

J. T. Headley. 251 57.—THE BURNING OF Moscow (II)

254 59.—THE “ARIEL AMONG THE SHOALS (I). J. F. Cooper. 261 60.--THE “ARIEL AMONG THE SHOALS (II)

268 62.—THE FIRST SHIP OF PETER THE GREAT . E. Schuyler. 276

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71.--TROPICAL VEGETATION IN SOUTH AMERICA .

Charles Kingsley. 317

72.- FRANKLIN'S VISIT to His MOTHER Freeman Hunt. 321

74.--THE SKY

John Ruskin. 331

75.--A DINNER PARTY IN ANCIENT THEBES , Mrs. J. D. Steele. 335

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80.—LOST ON THE FLOES (I)

Elisha K. Kane. 356

81.- Lost On THE FLOES (II) ·

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83.-BENEATH THE FALLS OF NIAGARA . John Tyndall. 370

84.---THE COLISEUM AT ROME

Charlotte M. Yonge. 376

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W. H. Prescott. 383

87.—CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF GENERAL WADSWORTH.

S. A. Drake. 387

89.—THE RUBBER TREES OF THE AMAZON Herbert H. Smith. 396

90.-ANECDOTE OF Sir MATTHEW HALE .

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92.-SILK-WORMS.

John Henry Gray. 408

31.--THE BRAVE AT HOME.

.T, Buchanan Read. 151

34.-DRIVING HOME THE Cows

Kate P. Osgood. 164

37.-THE BISON TRACK .

Bayard Taylor. 173

40.-- LEGEND OF THE CAÑON

Jeremiah Mahoney. 184

43.-AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE

Alice Cary. 197

46,-“CURFEW Must nor Ring To-Night,” Rosa H. Thorpe. 209

49.-CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE . Frederick Whittaker. 224

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B. F. Taylor. 313 73.—THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE William E. Aytoun. 328 76.–VIRGINIUS

T. B. Macaulay. 339 79.—THE CAVALRY CHARGE

B. F. Taylor. 354 82.-THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. Theodore. O'Hara. 367 85.-A ROMAN LEGEND .

Henry W. Longfellow. 380 88.-SNOW-BOUND (Selection)

John G. Whittier. 392 91.-THE AMERICAN FLAG. Joseph Rodman Drake. 405 94.—THE DEAD GRENADIER

B. F. Taylor. 419 95.-SCENE FROM “KING JOHN

. Shakspeare. 422 97.-ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD . Gray. 435 100.—THE RAVEN.

Edgar A. Poe. 454

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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