Samson John Milton. 312 86.  An Evening Adventure 315 87.  The Barefoot Boy John Greenleaf Wittier. 317 88.  The Glove and the Lions James Henry Leigh Hunt. 321 89.  The Folly of Intoxication William Shakespeare. 322 90.  Starved Rock Francis Parkman. 325 91.  Prince Henry and Falstaff.  William Shakespeare. 327 92.  Studies.  Sir Francis Bacon. 332 93.  Surrender of Granada.  Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. 334 94.  Hamlet’s Soliloquy.  William Shakespeare. 339 95.  Ginevra Samuel Rogers. 340 96.  Inventions and Discoveries John Caldwell Calhoun. 344 97.  Enoch Arden at the Window Alfred Tennyson. 347 98.  Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott. 350 99.  Speech on the Trial of a Murderer Daniel Webster. 352

100.  The Closing Year                    George Denison Prentice.   355
101.  A New City in Colorado              Helen Hunt Jackson.        358
102.  Importance of the Union             Daniel Webster.            362
103.  The Influences of the Sun           John Tyndall.              364
104.  Colloquial Powers of Franklin       William Wirt.              366
105.  The Dream of Clarence               William Shakespeare.       368
106.  Homeward Bound                      Richard H. Dana, Jr.       371
107.  Impeachment of Warren Hastings      T. B. Macaulay.            375
108.  Destruction of the Carnatic         Edmund Burke.              379
109.  The Raven                           Edgar Allan Poe.           382
110.  A View of the Colosseum             Orville Dewey.             389
111.  The Bridge                          Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.392
112.  Objects and Limits of Science       Robert Charles Winthrop.   394
113.  The Downfall of Poland.              Thomas Campbell.           396
114.  Labor                               Horace Greeley.            398
115.  The Last Days of Herculaneum        Edwin Atherstone.          401
116.  How Men Reason                      Oliver Wendell Holmes.     405
117.  Thunderstorm on the Alps            Lord Byron.                408
118.  Origin of Property                  Sir William Blackstone.    410
119.  Battle of Waterloo                  Lord Byron.                415
120.  “With Brains, Sir”                  John Brown.                417
121.  The New England Pastor              Timothy Dwight.            410
122.  Death of Absalom                    Bible.                     420
123.  Abraham Davenport                   John Greenleaf Whittier.   424
124.  The Falls of the Yosemite           Thomas Starr King.         426
125.  A Psalm of Life                     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.429
126.  Franklin’s Entry into Philadelphia.  Benjamin Franklin.         431