35 ． The Beauty Of Pisa In The Afternoon On each side of a bright river he saw rise a line of brighter palaces, arched and pillared, and inlaid with deep red porphyry, and with serpentine(2); along the quays before their gates were riding troops of...
34．A Man's A Man For A' ThatIs there for honest povertyThat hings his head, an' a' that ?(2)The coward slave, we pass him byWe dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that,Our toils obscure, an' a' that;The rank is but the guinea's stamp(3),T...
33．TreesIn the Garden of Eden(1), planted by God,There were goodly trees in the springing sod-Trees of beauty and height and grace,To stand in splendor before His face: Apple and hickory, ash and pear,Oak and beech, and the tulip rare,The trembling...
32 ． Journey To The Bottoms Of The Pacific Ocean The journey two naval officers made some time ago to the very deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains to be explored. The two men went down seven miles to the...
30 ． Address To His Troops The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged an...
29 ． The Angler How comforting it is to see a cheerful and contented old age; and to behold a poor fellow, like this, after being tempest-tost through life, safely moored in a snug and quiet harbour in the evening of his days ! His happiness, how-...
28 ． Hints For Those That Would Be Rich The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money. For ￡ 6 a Year you may have the Use of ￡ 100 if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty. He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly a...
27 ． An Important Aspect Of College Life It is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established...
26 ． Asummer Day One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. A blazing non upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then than at any other time before or since. Every-tiring in Marseiiles and about Marseille...
25 ． Letter to Mrs. Bixby(1) Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts, Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department(3) a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously o...
24 ． I Remember, I Remember I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping m at morn(1); He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day,(2) But now I often wish the night Had borne my brea...
23 ． April Days Days(1) of witchery, subtly sweet, When every hill and tree finds heart(2), When winter and spring like lovers meet In the mist of noon and part -- In the April days. Nights; when the wood frogs faintly peep(3) Once -- twice -- and...
A wet Sunday in a country inn ! Whoever has had the luck to experience one(1) can alone judge of(2) my situation. The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of somethi...
A little Scotch boy was sitting in his grandmother's kit- chen. He was watching the red flames in the wide open fire- place and quietly wondering about the causes of things. In- deed, he was always wondering and always wanting to know. Grandma, he p...
A poor chimney-sweeper, who had not enough money to buy a meal, stopped one hot summer day at noon before an eating-house, and remained regaling his nose with the smell of the victuals. The master of the shop told him several times to go away, but t...
