impressed the world of readers with their personality; for when savants gravely discuss the question of Hamlet's sanity, surely we must acknowledge that there may be real men and women who have never trod the earth. But there is more than the expression of emotion and perceptions to deal with; there is the realm in which Thought holds the higher place. In this division, there is, first and foremost, Reflection, or the application of the results of feeling and experience of externals to the inner life, thus affecting the outer life as well. The mind manifests itself in another, and totally different way, next; no longer grave and wise, it gives itself up to the wildest dreams; and in these, when cunningly imbued with that "drop of human blood" which is necessary to give interest, we have the pleasing flights of Fancy. Finally, the mental powers, having thus far relaxed their grave efforts, resolve to throw care to the winds, and give themselves up to Wit and the more kindly Humor. Such is the theory upon which the arrangement of the selections which follow is based. In practice, however, the classification is often extremely difficult. The broad lines which have here been marked out as dividing the varieties of mental effort are often obliterated in a single page; and the writer will, in the course of a few paragraphs or stanzas, pass from description of beautiful scenes, to the persons who beheld them, and to the emotions aroused in the breasts of these men and women to whom he thus gives existence. Without, then, proposing the arrangement herein adopted as perfect, or even the best that could possibly be made, it is submitted to the reader as the best of which the editor is capable; trusting that the kindliness excited by the sight of so many representatives of favorite authors may lead him to more enjoyment than fault-finding. M. K. DAVIS. .M. K. Davis...COVER It Never Comes Again.........R. H. Stoddard...39 Author. Page. LINING Alone. Nature and Books...............M. K. Davis..... FLY The Baby,....... Babie Bell's Coming.............T. B. Aldrich....... 31 The Gambols of Children......G. Darley..... 32 The Merry Heart.................H. H. Milman..... 33 The City of the Living.........E. A. Allen...........43 Beyond the Gate............. ...K. M. Rice...........43 ...........A. J. Ryan...........44 World Goes Down............C. Kingsley..........44 Sleep, the certain knot"....Sir Philip Sidney...45 Driving Home the Cows........K. P. Osgood.......46 The World's Indifference...... W. M. Thackeray 46 The Lady's Dream............... T. Hood...............48 Auld Robin Gray........... Lady Ann Lindsay 49 Rock Me to Sleep............ .E. A. Allen..........51 Oft in the Stilly Night..........T. Moore............51 .R. C. Trench......... 35 Weariness.......... .... Song, from "The Prin- cess Complaint...........................J. G. Holland.......55 .....A. Tennyson.........86 To The "Eve" of Powers......H. T. Tuckerman..55 The House of Clay........... Anonymous..........36 A Ballad upon a Wedding......Sir John Suckling 87 On the Threshold........... Anonymous .........88 Condemned to Die............................C. Tychborn.........73 Juliet Taking the Opiate....... W. Shakspere......74 The Mitherless Bairn....... W. Thorn.................... .... .T. Hood The Phantom......................B. Taylor...........104 turn'st with all thy". .........W. Drummond...105 Death of Gabriel.............. ..H. W. Longfel- .W. Shakspere......78 There Is No Death............ .Bulwer Lytton....107 .George Eliot.......78 The Bridge of Sighs.......... ...T. Hood............108 ....J. Keats............... .79 Olden Memories......... ...W. W. Story........80 The Death of the Babe Christabel..................... .G. Massey.........110 Mourning ................. W. Shakspere.....110 beauty's bloom”. ....... Lord Byron........111 ...W. Wordsworth...83 Grandmother's Sermon.......... Anonymous.. ..P. Massinger.......83 Found Dead........... .M. R. Lacoste......83 "I have been a happy man The Blind Old Milton............E. L. Howell....... 85 Dirge........ The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire............................. .T. Hood..............88 In Watches of the Night.......W. Winter.........116 .W. D. Gallagher..90 Spoken After Sorrow........ The Voice of the Waves........C. Dickens....... ..90 In Time to Come........ The Disappointed........... .E. W. Wilcox......91 "When shall we three meet Author. Sundered Friends..................N. Perry............125 "Is She Biding?". What It Is to Love........... .C. Swain...............................127 Yesterday........ "Oh, merry, merry, be the day!" J. H. Perkins......130 The Flower's Name...............R. Browning......131 Song: "Where wind and To the Evening Star.............J. Leyden..........154 thus did I chide"..... .......... The Lily Pond........... W. Shakspere.....154 .W. Shakspere....156 E. C. Stedman....157 Sheaves........ ...............................R. Browning.......137 Balcony Scene, from "Romeo Treu und Fest.....................Anonymous The Blue-Eyed Lassie....... ..R. Burns............. A Madrigal............. .P. H. Hayne......163 When Stars are in the Quiet The Sweet Neglect......... .R. B. Sheridan....163 .Bulwer-Lytton...164 ..B. Johnson.........164 ...T. Westwood......165 .Anonymous.......141 Come into the Garden, Maud..A. Tennyson......166 Love is a Sickness.................S. Daniel............143 Ballad: “I'll never love thee Marquis of Mon- Lochaber No More...............A. Ramsay..... When the Kye Come Hame...J. Hogg........ .145 Hef Letter.................................................. ....................B. Harte............146 "Don't be sorrowful, darling"..R. Peale............168 A Woman's Question............A. A. Procter.....168 How Do I Love Thee......... ...E. B. Browning ..169 Bright, O Bright Fedalma !......George Eliot.....175 The Gold Hunter......... .....J. Miller.............175 Farewell to Nancy................. ..R. Burns.............................176 The Lady's Looking-Glass.....M. Prior............178 Wooing Stuffe.....................Sir Philip Sidney.176 lips and fingers"................T. Campbell.......187 Good Morrow...... sigh no more". His Love........ ...........C. Marlowe........189 ............. ......... Sonnet; "In the long, sleep- H. W. Longfel Epithalamium......................J. G. C. Brainard..199 Christ's Nativity.............J. Milton...........205 A Christmas Hymn...............A. Domett.........209 Come, Ye Disconsolate...... .T. Moore...........209 The Mystic's Christmas.........J. G. Whittier....211 Christmas in the Woods.........H. Weir............212 Providence.................................... ..J. Keats............213 The Bible.......... .....................................R. Hall...................213 Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me.....A. M. Toplady...214 The Cotter's Saturday Night...R. Burns...........216 Hymn: "Abide with me"....H. F. Lyte........221 The Ninety and Nine............E. C. Clephane...222 It's Ain Drap o' Dew............J. Ballantine......223 Nearer, My God, to Thee......S. F. Adams...... 223 Sonnet on His Blindness........J. Milton...........228 Lines Written in His Bible....Sir W. Raleigh...223 Address to the Unco Guid......R. Burns............225 The Burial of Moses............C. F. Alexander..225 Evening in Paradise..............J. Milton...........227 Example........ .............J. Keble............ 229 Jesus, Lover of My Soul....... C. Wesley..........228 ....... |