CATALOGUE OF “STANDARD RECITATIONS”, Numbers 19–34
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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 19.
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A Day. By John G. Whittier 7|The Cane-Bottomed Chair.
A Keeper’s Story. | W. M. Thackeray 8
By Ethel Lynn 21|The Cavalry Charge.
An Empty Nest. | By E. C. Stedman 5
By Mary A. Barr 30|The Missing Ship.
Advice to Boys 34| By John B. Gough 9
A Tramp’s Philosophy 37|The Burial of Chatham. Macaulay 15
Cæsar Passing the Rubicon. |The Hindu King’s Reply to the
By J. Sheridan Knowles 5| Missionary. Alfred C. Lyall 15
Confession of a Drunkard 6|The Country’s Greatest Evil 16
Courage, Boy, Courage! 17|The Pythian Flag up North 18
Character of Napoleon. |The Windy Night.
By Lamartine 38| By Thomas B. Reed 24
Do Not Rust Out 24|To Her. By Victor Hugo 25
England. By Charles Mackay 19|The Phantom Wreck.
Even This Shall Pass Away 32| Nathan D. Urner 26
En Voyage 38|The Shepherd of the People.
Education. By Schuyler Colfax 47| Rev. P. Brooks 27
Fancy or Fact. |True Fame. By Jay 28
By James Russell Lowell 6|The Open Door 29
Great Lives Imperishable. |The American Indian.
Edward Everett 19| By Charles Sprague 29
How Riches are to be Measured 18|The Trapper’s Last Trail.
If We Knew 10| Madge Morris 31
In Scotia Dear 35|The Two Lives 32
Liberty. By Frank E. Brush 20|The Sabbath 32
Little Jim. George R. Sims 25|The World from the Sidewalk 33
Live for Good. |The Duellist’s Honor.
Rev. J. J. Case 31| By Bishop England 36
Logan at Atlanta 36|Trust in God, and do the Right.
Malibran and the Young Musician 12| N. McLeod 40
My Portion 39|The Miner’s Luck. J. W. Donovan 40
Napoleon the Little. Hugo 25|The Old School-house 41
Night Before the Execution. |The True Source of Reform.
Mary E. Bryan 45| E. H. Chapin 42
Our Ships 8|The Cry of the Dreamer.
Opposite Examples. | John B. O’Reilly 43
Horace Mann 23|The Lover’s Leap 46
On Planting the Pear-tree. |The Bartholdi Statue.
By Rev. Edward Hopper, D.D. 42| By John G. Whittier 48
Resolution 34|Vanitas. Charles M. Harger 27
Success. By B. F. Taylor 7|Whiskey in its Place 11
Spike that Gun 10|Who are the Free.
Saved. By Jennie Joy 44| By John C. Prince 21
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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 20.
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The Idyl of Battle Hollow. |The Thank-You Prayer 27
Bret Harte 3|The True Pride of Ancestry.
How Tommy Went to Sea. | Webster 28
Colonel Tom Ochiltree 4|Endurance 29
The Martyrs of Sandom’r. |The Old Man and Jim.
M. Capel 6| James Whitcomb Riley 30
Pike’s Peak. Eugene Field 7|Why Are We Here.
Alone. Robert J. Burdette 8| C. G. Dann 31
Ingratitude Towards the Deity. |Rural Occupations Favorable
Appleton 8| to the Sentiments of Devotion.
Legend of the Crossing | Buckminster 31
Sweeper 9|The Moonshiner’s Daughter.
Sergeant Jasper at Fort | M. B. 32
Moultrie. |The Baby’s Prayer.
Louise Imogen Guiney 10| Mrs. E. E. Williamson 34
The Reveille 11|How He Got Rich 34
The Stoning of the Magdalen. |The Midnight Tryst.
F. E. Pratt 11| Mary E. Bryan 35
State’s Evidence. |The Four-Leaved Clover.
Margaret Cavendish 13| A Decoration Day
Mother’s Slipper 13| Reminiscence 37
The Cradle Rocked. |What is Religion?
H. S. Keller 14| Bishop Heber 38
The Old Class Room 15|All Light There.
In the Dakota Blizzard. | Mrs. M. L. Rayne 38
John Paul Bocock 16|On the Field of Gettysburg.
Langsyne. D. M. Moir 17| Ena Walton 39
Mrs. Grundy 18|In the Name of God, the Merciful,
The Baby and the Soldier 19| the Compassionate! 39
“Clear the Way.” |Influence of Christianity in
Camilla Crosland 20| Elevating the Female Character.
Wolfe Tone aboard the Hoche. | J. G. Carter 40
David G. Adee 21|Would We Return?
My Old Vag. M. Quad 21| Robert Burns Wilson 41
Nobody Knows but Father. |The Rose. Mrs. Sigourney 42
H. C. Dodge 23|Death 43
The Brave at Home. |My Henry. James W. Riley 43
T. Buchanan Read 23|The Lock of Hair.
Drunk in the Street 24| Thomas Dunn English 44
Posthumous Influence of the |Vita Nova 44
Wise and Good. Norton 24|Description of a Death Scene.
“Me and Bob and Jim.” | Miss Francis 45
Ada Stewart Shelton 25|St. Brigid 47
The Angelus 26|“To Many of We.” 47
A Regular Bad ’Un. |Decoration Day.
Frederick Langbridge 26| Minnie Irving 48
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Half-Way Doin’s. Irwin Russell 3|Mme. Eef 27
The Lady or the Tiger. |The Lightning-Rod Dispenser.
Mayor Joseph Kirkland in | Will Carleton 28
The Century 5|Why Women Marry 30
Confidential 6|A Pathetic Old Man 31
St. Jonathan 6|The Druggist’s Vengeance 32
Shinbones Becomes an Umpire. |The Emancipation of Man 33
W. J. Henderson 7|The Wickedest Man in Memphis.
Uncle Ike’s Roosters. Aaron | Alex. J. Brown 34
W. Fredericks 8|The Knights of the Road 35
How “Old Mose” Counted |Heinz Von Stein.
Eggs 9| Charles G. Leland 35
Trouble in the Choir. |Chairley Burke’s in Town.
A. T. Worden 10| James Whitcomb Riley 36
Who Makes the Soil 12|The Wife’s Strategy 36
That Gentleman from Boston Town. |Precepts at Parting.
Joaquin Miller 13| Irwin Russell 37
A Change of Views. W. Carey 14|Advice to a Young Man.
The Story of Elizur. F. A. S. 15| R. J. Burdette 38
Robin Hood and the Abbot. |The Chap that’s Been over
John Brook 16| to Lunnon 38
Two Boot Blacks 17|Noodleberry as a Neighbor.
A Reminiscence 18| W. H. Ellis 39
Uncle Cuff “Rises Fur Ter |How We Tried to Whip The
’Splain.” | Teacher. Eugene J. Hall 40
William Longfellow Haynie 18|Der Sphider und der Fly.
The Canine Question. | Charles Follen Adams 41
Alex. Sweet 19|Katrina’s Visit to New York.
The Setting Sachem 20| Alex. T. Brown 42
Asking the Gov’nor 21|The Turkish Bath.
The April Face. Thomas | By A Young Woman 43
Nelson Page 22|Our Boarding-House Thanksgiving 44
Guilty, Of Course. G. Waldo 23|Managing a Mule.
The Mosquito 24| Irwin Russell 45
Ode to the Full Moon. |Der Oak und der Vine.
Allen Kelly 24| Charles Follen Adams 45
The Ballad of Hiram Hover 25|The Skeleton’s Confession.
A Negro’s Account of the | E. S. V. Z. 46
Prodigal Son 26|How She Won Him 47
Don’t Shpoil Dot Leedle Fun. |The Champion.
Emile Pickhardt 27| Edward P. Jackson 48
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Shamus O’Brien, The Bold Boy of |“Peace, Be Still.” Violet 27
Glingall. Samuel Lover 3|A Short Debate on Rum.
The Soldier’s Reward. | “Th’ Poet o’ Ante-Bar.” 28
J. W. Donovan 7|The Participants in the Boston
The Kitten of the Regiment 9| Massacre. John Hancock 28
Perils of a Teacher. |Dandie. M. F. Bradley 29
J. W. Donovan 10|The Nameless Guest.
A Climb at Rouen. | James Clarence Harvey 30
M. Betham Edwards 11|Slug Number Eleven 30
Catching the Colt 12|A Famous fight.
Something for Strikers 13| David Graham Adee 32
Harmony 13|More Cruel Than War 33
By the Wayside. E. Doherty 14|The Fall of the Alamo.
The Unwelcomed Baby 15| Mrs. Barr 34
Running Before It. |A New Gospel.
William Constable 16| Carlotta Perry 35
“Warned.” Crape Myrtle 17|Making the Round.
The Old Wife’s Kiss 17| Mrs. M. L. Rayne 36
The Old Office-Desk. |The Beautiful 37
Henry J. Shellman 19| Onatoga’s Sacrifice.
Chickens Come Home to Roost. | John Dimitry 38
Ernest M‘Gaffey 19|Joe Sieg. Alexander Anderson 39
The Blacksmith of Ragenbach 20|Education. C. Phillips 41
The Old Mill. H. W. Field 21|Ingratitude; Or, Old Sport and
One at a Time 22| His Master. Fred Williams 41
The Hot Axle. |Old Uncle Jake 43
T. De Witt Talmage 22|On the Rappahannock 44
Ellsworth’s Avengers. Tripp 23|The Better Land 45
The Origin of Whiskey. |Charity 45
H. Burgess 24|St. Michael, the Weigher 46
The Two Words. J. E. Dinkenga 25|The Orphan’s New Year.
Listeners. M. K. D. 25| O. H. 46
The Delinquent Subscriber. |The Inch Cape Bell 47
Margaret Andrews Oldham 26|The Old Minstrel 47
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If I Should Die To-night 3|The Unknown Hero 27
The American Union. |The Life-Boat 28
Daniel Webster 4|Milton’s Last Poem 28
Abon Ben Adhem. |How to Enliven Your Days—Work
Leigh Hunt 4| With a Will 28
A Child’s Cry 4|The Soldier’s Pardon.
The Shamrock. | James Smith 29
Anna B. Reardon 5|True Bravery—A Thrilling
The Face Against the Pane. | Sketch 30
T. B. Aldrich 6|The Last Broadside.
Do Your Part. J. W. Donovan 7| Elizabeth T. P. Beach 31
The Reign of Terror. |The Faithful Friend 32
Thomas Carlyle 8|His Last Run 33
Life is so Long 8|The Ship on Fire. C. McKay 33
Storming the Temple of Mexico. |The Care of God 34
William H. Prescott 9|My Ship at Sea.
Giant and Dwarf 9| Thomas Dunn English 35
The Religious Card Player 10|The Sailor’s Mother.
Conscience at Death 11| W. Wordsworth 35
The Sicilian Vespers 12|Independence Bell 36
The Curse of Regulus 12|The Unknown Future.
Death Makes All Men Brothers. | Mary Kyle Dallas 37
Louise S. Upham 13|Creating Criminals.
A Vision Rendered Into | Charles Dudley Warner 38
Poetry 15|Martin’s Puzzle.
At the Shaft’s Mouth. | George Meredith 38
R. E. White 16|The Ladder of St. Augustine.
In the Tunnel 17| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 40
The Peaceful Life. |The Step-mother.
Marianne Farningham 19| Nathan D. Urner 41
The Story of a Stowaway! |Success. C. M. Harger 42
Clement Scott 20|The Good Woman. I. B. Mean 42
Loss of The Arctic. |All’s for the Best.
H. W. Beecher 21| M. F. Tupper 43
The Emigrants. Charles McKay 22|The Right Road.
The Tramp. J. J. R. 23| Ella Wheeler Wilcox 43
The Nail Maker 23|None Will Miss Thee 44
The Last of the Druids. |Little Orphant Annie.
James Jeffrey Roche 24| James Whitcomb Riley 44
Personalities and Ill Reports. |Difference Between Taste and
Dr. John Hall 24| Genius. By Blair 45
The Sailor’s Song. |Strength for To-Day 46
B. W. Proctor 25|Washington. Eliza Cook 46
Nail the Colors to the Mast. |Found Drowned 47
Alfred H. Miles 25|The Rosary 48
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Concepcion De Arguello. |Speech of Shrewsbury before
Bret Harte 3| Queen Elizabeth. Schiller 26
Eulogium on South Carolina. |And then?
Robert Y. Hayne 5| James Jeffrey Roche 28
The Brewing of Soma. |The Tell Tale Heart.
John G. Whittier 6| Edgar Allen Poe 28
The Wee, Wee Bairnie 7|The Convict’s Hopeless Lot.
Destiny. T. B. Aldrich 8| An Ex-convict 30
Without Me 8|The Star of Bethlehem.
South Carolina and Massachusetts. | Henry Kirke White 31
Daniel Webster 9|Success in Life.
Burglar Bill 10| James A. Garfield 31
What My Lover Said. |The Hindoo’s Search for
Homer Greene 11| Truth 32
The Curse to Labor. |The Spiritualist. L. W. 33
T. V. Powderly 12|Last Charge of Ney.
The New Hail Columbia. | J. T. Headley 35
Oliver Wendell Holmes 13|The Song of the Headlight.
Reuben James. | Hardy Jackson 36
James Jeffrey Roche 13|One of the Signers.
Reply to Mr. Webster. | John Greenleaf Whittier 37
Robert Y. Hayne 14|Apparitions. Thomas Carlyle 38
Vas Marriage a Failure? |Farewell to Nature.
Charles Follen Adams 15| Thomas Gordon Hake 39
The Soul’s Farewell to the |Jim.
Body. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 16| James Whitcomb Riley 40
A Woman’s Heart 16|Grant’s Strategy.
The Minstrel’s Curse. | Judge Veazey 41
Ludwig Uhland 17|Just for To-day 42
Visions of Joan of Arc and |A Hero of the Tropics.
Bishop of Beauvais. | I. Edgar Jones 42
De Quincey 18|Priests unto God.
The Old Cornet Player. | Rose Terry Cooke 43
J. P. Bocock 20|The Mayflower.
Speech of Icilius to the | Edward Everett 44
Romans. Alfieri 21|The Veiled Statue at Sais.
The Watch of Boon Island. | Friedrich Schiller 45
Mrs. Celia Thaxter 21|Death of Hamilton.
Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne. | Eliphalet Nott 46
Daniel Webster 23|The Soldier’s Return.
To Ireland. J. B. Killen 24| Susanna Blamire 47
Christ Not a Christian. A. D. 25|Vicissitudes of 1849.
The Forging of the Anchor. | Horace Greeley 47
S. Ferguson 26|Washington. Phillips 48
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A Bachelor. |One of the Multitude.
By Edgar I. Brenner 31| By Margaret Veley 47
A City Incident. |“Our Times not Degenerate.”
George Bancroft Griffith 20| By Chas. Emory Smith 5
A Noble Mind in a Grand |Patient Mercy Jones.
Body 38| By James T. Fields 13
A Paraphrase of Seneca. |Remembrance of Wrongs.
By Eugene Field 17| Rufus Choate 10
A Picture. |Royalty. Thomas S. Collier 7
By H. Antoine D’Arcy 15|The Skeleton Soldier.
After Death in Arabia. | Mrs. Findley Braden 33
Sir Edwin Arnold 8|The Stones of Manhattan.
An Old Temperance Poem 29| By Willis Fletcher Johnson 34
Batyushka. T. B. Aldrich 15|The Two Brothers. By B. E. E. 9
Ballad of the Bloody Brook. |The King’s Daughters 21
By Edward Everett Hale 3|The Centre of Gravity 22
Boys, Go Home 25|The Four Princes.
Comfort One Another 44| Arthur G. Geoghegan 23
Crying for the Moon 35|The Poet’s Political Thoughts.
Death Carol. Walt. Whitman 19| John Greenleaf Whittier 25
Evil of Duelling. |The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh.
By Lyman Beecher 12| John Eliot Bowen 37
Extract from “How I Consulted |The Game of Warriors 41
the Oracle of the |The Yellow Sands of Sussex.
Goldfishes.” | By Douglas Sladen 43
James Russell Lowell 10|The Face Upon the Floor.
Farmer Kent’s Parson. | H. Antoine D’Arcy 16
Margaret Holmes 40|The King’s Dust.
Found Dead. | Harriet Prescott Spofford 12
By Sarah T. Bolton 26|The Church and the World.
Good-by Er Howdy-do? | By Mathilda C. Edwards 27
J. Whitcomb Riley 42|The Simple Man and the Wise Man.
Have Patience 44| Pollok 45
If. By Anstiss W. Curtiss 46|The Moan of the Attic.
Illusions. By E. A. 36| Margaret J. Preston 4
In Eulogy of Water. |To Florence Nightingale of
By Emory Storrs 8| England. By John Greenleaf
Moral Power of Public Opinion. | Whittier 10
Daniel Webster 20|Two. By Rose Terry Cooke 11
No National Greatness Without |Under the Daisies 32
Morality. |Waiting for the Mail.
By W. E. Channing 45| By S. W. Foss 40
Nobility 48|War with Big Guns 30
Old Boys. George W. Bungay 39|“Where the Willow Makes a
Our Lady of the Mine 24| Shade” 18
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The Sacrifice of Abraham. |The Lady of the Rock.
N. P. Willis 3| Thomas Dunn English 25
The Angel and the Shepherds. |A Ballad of East and West.
(From Ben Hur). | Yussuf 27
Lew Wallace 5|The Light from over the
The Dead Student. | Range 28
Will M. Carleton 6|Charlie Wong.
Henry W. Grady. | H. Antoine D’Arcy 30
James Whitcomb Riley 7|The Indian’s Tale.
The Fratricide. | John Greenleaf Whittier 31
John Greenleaf Whittier 8|Cities. Anonymous 32
Back from the War. |The Leper. N. P. Willis 33
T. De Witt Talmage 10|The Death of the Count Armaniac.
The Luck of Edenhall. | A. Mary F. Robinson 36
H. W. Longfellow 10|One Thing at a Time 36
That Waltz of Von Weber. |Song of the Mountaineers.
Nora Perry 11| T. Buchanan Read 37
Water and Rum. |The Battle Hymn.
John B. Gough 12| Theodore Körner 38
The Boy who helps his Mother 13|A Beautiful Death. Eli Perkins 38
Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette 14|Annie’s Ticket 39
Miriam’s Song. |Bad Prayers. Bronson Alcott 39
Thomas Moore 14|Mattie Stephenson. Anonymous 40
Toussaint L’Ouverture. |The Two Pictures 40
Wendell Phillips 15|Where God’s Hand is Seen.
The Engineer’s Story. | Captain Jack Crawford 42
Eugene J. Hall 16|The Sway of the Senses 43
The Influence of Woman. |Burial of the Minnisink.
Webster 16| H. W. Longfellow 44
His Mother’s Songs 17|Mary O’Connor, the
Mother’s Doughnuts. | Volunteer’s Wife.
Charles F. Adams 18| Mary A. Denison 45
Useless Philosophers 18|The Preservation of the Union.
The Grave. H. W. Longfellow 19| Daniel Webster 45
I wouldn’t—Would you? |Our Women Heroes.
Anonymous 19| Kate Brownlee Sherwood 46
Despair. Dow, Jr. 20|The Prayers of all Living
The Wife’s Appeal 21| Creatures 46
Praying for Shoes. |Wisdom Dearly Purchased.
Paul Hamilton Hayne 21| Edmund Burke 47
The New South. H. W. Grady 23|Keep Pegging Away 48
Lincoln. James R. Lowell 24|
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The Seeking. J. T. Trowbridge 3|Margaret. Henry William Herbert 28
The Ballad of the King’s Jest. |Wasted. Rev. J. F. Norton 29
Yussuf 4|Gentleman Jim.
Two Offerings. | Daniel O’Connell 30
Henry W. Longfellow 6|Civilization of Africa.
A History. T. De Witt-Talmagen 7| Edward Everett 31
The Senator’s Grandmother. |A Story of Fredericksburg.
Patience Stapleton 8| Herbert W. Collingwood 31
The March of the Years. |Grandfather’s Rose.
Marianne Farningham 10| Mary A. Denison 32
The Song of the Sirens. |The Mirage. H. T. B. 33
F. Marion Crawford 11|Christianity Essential to
Agriculture. D. S. Dickinson 12| Liberty. Kossuth 33
Wealth Untold. |Two Sinners.
Charles Mackay, LL.D. 13| Ella Wheeler Wilcox 34
Irish Hearts and Irish Hands. |The Shunammite. N. P. Willis 35
Mary E. Blake 13|The Demon of the Fire.
Fame, Wealth, Life, Death. | Edgar A. Poe 37
Walter W. Skeat 14|The Successful Farmer 38
Down in the Valley. M. Quad 15|Who carries on the Business.
The Home Fireside. Mary Rowles 16| Alfred J. Hough 38
Some Things Forever 17|Happy the Man of Steadfast
Stratford Fountain. | Faith. Solomon Solis-Cohen 39
Oliver Wendell Holmes 17|The Sailor Boy’s Sister.
Sympathy. Chriss Wilson 19| Francis Lucas 39
The World is what we make it. |Human Love 40
S. Moore 19|My Picture Gallery.
A Woman’s Story 19| Adelaide Anne Proctor 40
Life’s Game of Ball 21|A Pack of Cards. Janet Cossar 41
The most gifted of Mortals 22|A Lame Boy’s Query.
To a Lady for a Picture of | Alexander L. Kinkead 42
Pansies. T. W. Parsons 23|Kate. B. F. Sawyer 43
Just Away. J. W. Riley 23|The Ould Canteen 43
The Lost Kiss. J. W. Riley 24|The Cell of the Missionary.
The Wonderful Country. | W. L. Bowles 44
John Boyle O’Reilly 24|Uncle Jake. Kris Kyle 45
The Power of Love. |The Tyneside Widow.
J. W. Donovan 25| Algernon Charles Swinburne 46
Lost at Sea. C. S. Williams 25|The Convict’s Mother.
Lost in the Clouds. | Katherine S. Mason 47
Mary E. Bryan 26|Of His Pitiable Transformation.
The Dome of the Republic. | Robert Louis Stevenson 47
Anonymous 28|Ostler Joe. Geo. R. Sims 48
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The Ballad of the Colors. |Tim Murphy’s Stew 25
Thomas Dunne English 3|De Yaller Chinee 25
The Dying Umpire 4|Exclamatory 26
Goliath and David 4|Getting Right Up 27
Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. |He Guessed he’d Fight 27
Chas. F. Adams 5|Address of the President of
Sned Skinflint’s Scheme. R.K.M. 5| the Lazy Club. Anonymous 28
Diamond cut Diamond. By |Paddy’s Reflections on
John E. M‘Cann 6| Cleopathera’s Needle.
Rory’s Kissing School 7| Cormac O’Leary 29
Reading a Dime Novel 8|Why she was Salted 29
Paddy ye Rascal 9|More Coyness 30
Uncle Peter’s Counsel to the |A Costly Beverage 30
Newly Married. Edmund Kirke 9|Smoking his First Cigar 30
Bravest of the Brave. |The Mosquito Adjured 31
R. J. Burdette 10|She was a Shaker 32
A Wail of Toe 10|The Bicycle and the Pup 32
Mine Shildren. |The Mutilated Currency Question 32
Charles Follen Adams 10|Carl Dunder Talks to the
The Cultured Daughter of a | Children 33
Plain Grocer 11|Business and Gambling 34
Kelly at the Bat 12|Fate 34
“De ’Lection fer Jedge.” |Some Simple Says 34
Unk’l Isam 13|The Girl-Shooter 34
What is Done at Saratoga. |About Bores. Alexander E. Sweet 35
By John G. Saxe 14|Hamlet to his Mother 36
When Greek meets Greek. Anon. 15|Quit your Foolin’ 37
Rules for Husbands 15|The Necktie 37
Rules for Wives 16|A Leadville Sermon on the
Hustler Joe 16| “Prod.” 37
Coming Home. |How they Said Good-Night 38
Hugh Willoughby Sweeney 17|Uncle Moses and the Comet.
The Minstrels of the Night 18| Ruth Argyle 39
Baggage-Master Brick’s Lunch |His Heart was True to Poll 40
Can 18|Pat’s Love. By Joe Jot, Jr. 41
Short Summer Sermons. |The Montgomery Guard 42
By Bro. Gardner 19|Too Many for Him 42
In Holland. Eugene Field 19|Method in It 43
The Soft Guitar. P. F. Bowne 20|His Guileless Look.
He Led his Class 20| Thomas Holmes 42
“Human Natur’.” |Our Minister’s Sermon 44
By Bro. Gardner 21|Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the
Shoo 21| Opera 44
The New Lochinvar 22|A Street Gamin’s Story of the
The Banana Peel 23| Play. Anonymous 46
“Der Kicker und der Krank.” |The Country Store. Nathan
Emile Pickhardt 23| D. Urner 47
Uncle Pete and Marse George. |The Printer’s Revenge 48
Anon. 23|The Father to his Boy 48
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The Captain’s Well. |An Essay on Home.
By J. G. Whittier 3| By Margaret O’Gorman 25
At Fredericksburg—Dec. 13, |Retrospection. Alfred Lyall 26
1862. John Boyle O’Reilly 4|Matins. Edna Dean Proctor 28
Extract from Blaine’s Oration |An Army Overcoat.
on James A. Garfield 6| George Archibald 29
Drawing for Furlough 7|Little Tom. C. B. Lewis 30
The Ride of Paul Venarez 8|The March of the Workers.
Who’s Dead. Thomas Frost 9| William Morris 31
The Peril of the Mines 10|The Seafarer. G. R. Merry 32
Heroes. Francis A. Shaw 12|We’ve always been provided for 32
Keenan’s Charge. |Saved by a Ghost.
Geo. P. Lathrop 12| Eben E. Rexford 33
The Legend of the Organ |Pardon Complete.
Builder. Julia C. R. Dorr 13| Clara G. Dolliver 35
The Auctioneer’s Gift. |Artie’s “Amen.”
S. W. Foss 15| Paul Hamilton Hayne 35
A War Episode. |Our Old Doctor 36
By Wallace P. Reed 15|Don’t Blame the World 37
The Volunteer Organist. |Humpty Dumpty.
By S. W. Foss 16| Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 38
The Dandy Fifth. |Kate Shelley. Eugene J. Hall 39
Frank H. Gassaway 17|Danger or Vast Fortunes.
Sure Enough. Ernest McGaffey 18| Horace Mann 40
A Dream of the Universe. |Our Two Opinions.
Jean Paul Richter 19| James Whitcomb Riley 41
Petit Jean. Mary A. Barr 19|The Policeman’s Story.
At the Hospital. J. P. B. 20| Geo. Birdseye 41
The Conductor’s Story. |Public Opinion. C. Farrar 42
By B. J. M‘Dermott 21|St. John the Aged 43
His Sweet heart’s Song. |A Mother’s Thoughts 45
Fred C. Dayton 22|The Singer’s Climax 46
In a Crowd. Marianne Farningham 23|Two Soldiers at Gettysburg.
The Emperor’s Breakfast. | Isaac F. Eaton 47
Edwin Arnold 24|A Message from Mamma in Heaven 47
After the Curfew. |A Mother’s Answer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 24| Lillie E. Barr 48
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At the grave of Alice. |Our Mother’s Apron Strings.
Thomas Dann English 33| W. H. McElroy 30
A doubting heart. |Penn’s Monument.
A. A. Procter 21| R. J. Burdette 6
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Mother’s Prayer 35|Tootsie Brant.
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Mad Anthony’s Charge. |The Huguenot Lovers.
Alex. N. Easton 4| As Recited by Miss Jane Stuart 3
Never Again. A. A. Procter 47|The Drunkard’s Lament.
Only 40| E. D. Baker 12
One Day at a Time. |What is Good.
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Only a Word. |Woman’s Rights 17
Adelaide A. Procter 34|Xmas Eve Ballad.
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Transcriber’s Note
This catalogue was originally bound into the back of Ivers’ 1887 edition
of _Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in
Deliberative Assemblies_, by Luther S. Cushing
[EBook #60757 at Project Gutenberg].
End of Project Gutenberg's Catalogue of "Standard Recitations", by Anonymous
