CONTENTS.

PART FIRST.

LESSONS IN PROSE.

NARRATIVE PIECES.

HISTORICAL OR FICTITIOUS.

Lemon

Page.

4. The Chinese Prisoner,

T. Percival. 21

21. Account of W. Penn's treaty with the Indians, Ed. Review. 60

22. Visit to the falls of Missouri,

Ibid. 63

28. No life pleasing to God that is not useful to

man :-An Eastern narrative,

Hapokesworth. 76

34. The Mice:- A fable,

Fenelon. 91

39. Interview between Waverley and McIvor,

Scott. 96

47. A Morning in the Highlands of Scotland,

Scott. 118

50. The White Bear,

T. Percival. 123

66. Fortitude of the Indian character,

Adair. 156

93. The Baptism,

Wilson. 211

94. Romantic story,

Quarterly Reviem. 217

95. Anecdotes of Mozart,

Scrap Book. 218

140. Singular adventure,

Bradbury's Travels. 311

160. Death of old Lewis Cameron,

Wilson. 358

DESCRIPTIVE PIECES.

19. Feelings excited by a long voyage,

W. IRVING. 54

20. Brief description of Pompey's Pillar,-Address
and fearlessness of British Sailors,

Irwin. 58
40. Egyptian Mummies, Tombs, and Manners,

Belzoni. 100
59. Last days of Herculaneum,

Scrap Book. 141
64. Supposed feelings of Adam, on being called
into existence,

Buffon. 150

135. Old Mortality,

Tales of My Landlord. 298

136. The same concluded,

Toid.

301

153. Burial places near Constantinople,

Anastasius. 337

156. Destruction of Goldau, and other villages, BUCKMINSTER. 345

159. A Thunder-storm among the Highlands of Scotland, Wilson. 357

181. The Blind Preacher,

WIRT. 415

DIDACTIC PIECES.

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.

Page.

1. A Devotional spirit recommended to the young,

Cappe. 13

2. Paternal Instruction,

Lam. 15

5. The Contrast; or Peace and War,

Athenæum. 22

8. Advantages of a Taste for Natural History,

Wood. 29

9. The Pleasures of a cultivated Imagination, D. Stercart. 31

10. The Happiness of Animals, a proof of the Divine

Benevolence,

Paley. 32

13. Eternity of God,

GREENWOOD. 39

14. The same-concluded,

IBID. 41

26. On the pleasure of acquiring knowledge,

Alison. 72

27. On the Uses of Knowledge,

Ibid. 73

43. The mutual relation between Sleep and Night, Paley. 109

44. Social Worship agreeable to the best impulses of

our nature,

Mrs. Barbauld. 110

45. On the relative value of good Sense and Beauty

in the Female Sex,

Lond. Lit. Gazette. 116

51. The Miseries of War,

Robert Hall. 124

53. Consideration of the excuses that are offered to

palliate a neglect of religion,

BUCKMINSTER. 129

54. Subject continued,

IBID. 131

55. Subject concluded,

IBID. 134

58. Maternal Affection,

Scrap Book. 140

62. The Seasons,

MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY. 144

71. Autumn,

Alison. 166

81. On the reasonableness of Christian Faith, BUCKMINSTER. 187

82. On the importance of Christian Faith,

IBID. 190

104. Daily Prayer.—Morning,

CHANNING. 234

105. Daily Prayer.- Evening,

IBID. 237

110. On the Dangers of Moral Sentiment unaccompanied

with Active Virtue,

Alison. 246

111. On Infidelity,

A. Thompson. 249

112. The same subject-concluded,

Ibid. 250

117. Charity to Orphans,

Sterne. 258

125. On the Waste of Life,

FRANKLIN. 274

132. On the Use and Abuse of Amusements,

Alison. 287

CRAFTS. 329

161. Religion and superstition contrasted,

Mrs. Carter. 362

209. On the moral uses of the phenomena of the material

universe,

Page

Lesson

119. The Head-stone,
164. The Prodigal Son,

Wilson. 262

375

DRAMATIC PIECES.

DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES.

11. Real virtue can love nothing but virtue ;-a Dia.

logue :-Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon,

Fenelon. 35

25. Importance of literature ;-a Dialogue :-Cadmus

and Hercules,

Lyttleton. 68

33. Mercury, an English Duellist, and an

American Savage,

Dialogues of the Dead. 88

45. Lord Bacon and Shakspeare,

Blackwood's Ed. Mag. 111

99. The Sultan and Mr. Haswell,

Mrs. Inchbald. 227
199. Address of Brutus to the Roman populace, Shakspeare. 453

PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING.
32. Reply of Red Jacket to the Missionary, at a
council of chiefs, 1805,

Philanthropist. 86
78. The ave Trade,

WEBSTER. 183
146. Part of the letter of the British Spy,

WIRT. 324
149. Conclusion of a discourse delivered at Plymouth,
Mass. 22d Dec. 1820,

WEBSTER. 331

174. Reply of Rob Roy to Mr. Osbaldistone,

Scott. 399

HUMOROUS PIECES.

60. New mode of Fishing,

Scrap Book. 142

109. Diederich Knickerbocker's New England

Farmer,

W. IRVING. 244

123. Dr. Slop and Obadiah, meeting,

Sterne. 270

154. Thoughts on Letter-writing,

Blackwood's Magazine. 339

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

6. Parallel between Pope and Dryden,

Johnson. 24

65. Scottish Music :-its peculiarity accounted for, Beattie. 154

86. Night, from the Lay Preacher,

DENNIE. 196

87. Midnight musings,

W. IRVING. 199

88. Spring,

DENNIE. 202

89. Extract from a criticism on Ossian,

Blair. 204

97. Character of Mr. James Watt,

Jeffrey. 222

99. Death and Character of Howard,

Clarke. 225

100. The Monied Man,

New Monthly Mag. 228

118. On the perishable nature of poetical fame,

Jeffrey. 260

119. Heroic Self-denial,

Lond. Lit. Gaz. 272

134. Forest Trees,

W. IRVING. 295

141. The Discontented Pendulum,

Jane Taylor. 314

146. Letter from the British Spy, in Virginia,

DESCRIPTIVE PIECES.

7. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 26

12. The Rainbow,

Baldwin's Lond. Magazine. 37

18. Inscription for the Entrance into a Wood,

BRYANT. 53

24. A Summer Morning,

Thomson. 66

29. The Planetary System,

Mangnall. 81

42. Green River,

BRYANT. 107

48. April Day,

Anonymous. 121

61. A Winter Scene,

BRYANT. 143

70. An Evening Sketch,

Blackwood's Magazine. 165

84. The Coral Grove,

J. G. PERCIVAL. 195

92. A Sabbath in Scotland :-Persecution of the

Scottish Covenanters,

Grahame. 209

103. Thalaba, among the Ruins of Babylon,

Southey. 232

106. Scene after a Summer Shower,

A. NORTON. 239

120. Lines written in a Highland Glen,

Wilson. 266

121. The Young Herdsman,

Wordsworth. 267

122. The Shipwreck,

Wilson. 269

126. The Young Minstrel,

Beattie. 275

128. Fingal's Battle with the Spirit of Loda,

Ossian. 279

129. The Religious Cottage,

D. HUNTINGTON. 305

138. The Deaf Man's Grave,

Wordsworth. 306

152. A Natural Mirror,

Id. 336

183. Contrasts of Alpine Scenery,

Byron. 422

202. Description of the Castle of 'Indolence, and its

Inhabitants,

Thomson. 460

DIDACTIC PIECES.

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
3. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors,

18
17. Lines to a child on his voyage,

CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. 52
23. On Early Rising,

Hurdis. 65
30. Incentives to Devotion,

Henry K. White. 82
31. Ode to Sickness,

Anonymous. 84
35. The Lord and the Judge,

Lomonosov. 93
37. Hope triumphant in Death,

Campbell. 94
38. Lines written during a Thunder-storm, Russian Anthology. 96

Page

Leacon.

52. Nature and Poetry favorable to Virtue.--Humility

recommended in judging of Providence,

Beattie. 127

76. Slavery,

Comper. 181

77. The same subject,

Montgomery. 182

PO. Song of Rebecca, the Jewess,

Ivanhoe. 186

83. “ All things are of God,"

Moore. 194

85. Sonnet written in a Church-yard,

Blackwood's Mag. 196

90. The Dungeon,

Lyrical Ballads. 207

107. Baneful influence of skeptical philosophy,

Campbell. 240

114. To a Waterfowl,

BRYANT. 254

116. Thanatopsis,

ID. 256

120. Lines written in a Highland glen,

Wilson. 266

121. The Young Herdsman,

Wordsworth. 267

126. The Young Minstrel,

Beattie. 275

142. A belief in the Superintendence of Providence,

the only adequate Support under Asfiction, Wordsworth. 317

150. Effects of Education upon Individuals :- -its

importance to the public,

Id. 333

151. An Evening in the Grave-yard, AMERICAN WATCHMAN. 335

175. Prophecy of the Destruction of Babylon,

Lonth's translation of Isaiah. 401
180. A Summer Evening Meditation,

Mrs. Barbauld. 413
206. Address to the Deity,

Russian Anthology. 469
208. God,

Ibid.

475

.

PATHETIC PIECES.
49. The Dead Lamb,

Anonymous. 122

63. Goody Blake and Harry Gill,

Wordsworth. 146

96. Death and Burial of a Child at Sea,

Anonymous. 220
108. Affecting picture of Constancy in Love,

Crabbe. 242
113. Death-scene in Gertrude of Wyoming,

Campbell. 253

157. Lament of a Swiss Minstrel over the Ruins of Goldau, NEAL. 351

158. Lycidas,-a monody,

Milton. 353

172. The Winter Night,

Burns. 396

DRAMATIC PIECES.

DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES.
139. The Alderman's Funeral,

Southey. 308

163. Scene from Percy's Masque,

HILLHOUSE. 370

165. The Church-yarů,-first and second voices, Karamsin. 377

176. Lochiel's Warning,

Campbell. 406

178. Extract from a dialogue between a satiric poet

and his friend,

Pope. 410

179. Prince Edward and his keeper,

Miss Baillie. 412

182. Arthur, Hubert, and attendants,

Shakspeare. 418

187. Extract from "Heaven and Earth, Mystery," Byron. 428

189. Hamlet and Horatio,

Shakspeare. 431

191. Gil Blas and the Archbishop,

from Le Sage. 436

192. Alexander the Great and a Robber,

Dr. Aikin. 438

194. Soliloquy of Macbeth,