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

Illustrations

VOLUME III

Page

Priscilla and John Alden Frontispiece
Photogravure after a painting by Lasalett J.
Potts

“Law” 872
Photo-engraving in colors after the original mosaic
panel by Frederick Dielman

Horace porter 897
Photogravure after a photograph from life

  The minute man 936
     Photogravure after a photograph

  Theodore Roosevelt 998
     Photogravure after a photograph from life

  Lord Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose) 1008
     Photogravure after a photograph from life

  Henry Watterson 1189
     Photogravure after a photograph from life

  The national monument to the forefathers 1210
     Photogravure after a photograph

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

THE TORCH OF CIVILIZATION

[Speech of Thomas Nelson Page at the twentieth annual dinner of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn, December 21, 1899.  The President, Frederic A. Ward, said:  “In these days of blessed amity, when there is no longer a united South or a disunited North, when the boundary of the North is the St. Lawrence and the boundary of the South the Rio Grande, and Mason and Dixon’s Line is forever blotted from the map of our beloved country, and the nation has grown color-blind to blue and gray, it is with peculiar pleasure that we welcome here to-night a distinguished and typical representative of that noble people who live in that part of the present North that used to be called Dixie, of whom he has himself so beautifully and so truly said, ’If they bore themselves haughtily in their hour of triumph, they bore