nation. Many of the selections in this volume bave stood the practical test of use in a large grammar school, in which some attention was given to elocution; and its preparation originated in a desire to meet a want felt and expressed by many common school teachers.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec., 1866.

CLASSIFIED INDEX.

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PAGH Webster. 15

30 21 56 58 64 97 110 149 153 174 106 188 187

203 . Anon. 124 .S. S. Prentiss. 87 E. D. Baker. 17

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Duties of American Citizens...,
Elements of the American Government.
The Constitution and the Union..
The Fourth of July....
Bunker Hill Monument.
The Union....
The Constitution...
Our Duties to our Country.
Character of Washington...
Supposed Speech of John Adams..
Purpose of the Monument.
Our Duty to Our Country.
The Future of America..
Character of True Eloquence..
Our Country's Origin..
Public Schools the Life of the Nation..
New England and the Union..
Liberty of the Press
Our Country..
Freedom
Liberty and Slavery.
Spirit of the Nation..
How to Crush the Rebellion.
We Must Fight.
Progress of Freedom.
Our Nationality.
Our Union....
Wickedness of the Rebellion.
Burial of Baker..
Life of Abraham Lincoln...

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The Soldier's Return.
After the War......
John Burns at Gettysburg.
The Reveille.

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..Anon. 92

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.F. B. Harte. 33

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PROSE.--MISCELLANEOUS.
California..

.7. Starr King. 19
Free Schools..

.Horace Mann. 109
Defense of Common Schools..

..John Conness. 109
Common School Education.

Horace Bushnell. 123
Growth of California...

.F. P. Tracy. 152
Story of John Maynard.

.John B. Gough. 175
The Normans......

.F. P. Tracy. 160
Labor....

Orville Dewey. 205
Hard Work..

Wm. Ellery Channing. 204
Our Common Schools.

. Daniel Webstor. 210
Moral Rectitude...

Newton Bateman. 173

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Resignation....

. Longfellow. 139
The Day is Done..

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Children...

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Maud Muller...

Whitticr. 103
The Ranger..

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Thomas Starr King..

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The Winds..

. Bryant. 192
California.

.Bayard Taylor. 20
Progress..

Frank Soulé. 142
Poor and Rich.

Lowell. 166
The Bells...

.Poe. 126
The Enchanted Isle.

.B. F. Taylor. 168
Babie Bell.....

T. B. Aldrich. 202
The Main Truck.

Morris. 220
A Will and a Way..

Saxe. 180
The Family Meeting.

Sprague. 186
The Fight of Paso del Mar.

. Bayard. Taylor. 199
She Prays for Her Boy...

Anna M. Bates, 198
Battle of Waterloo..

Byron. 183
A postrophe to the Ocean.

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Mazeppa..
Worth of Woman..
Bugle Song...
Hymn to the Flowers
The Dying Year
The Death Bed..
Our State...
True Nobility
Hour of Death..
Voice of Spring.
To-Day and To-Morrow.
Hymn of Nature ...
Story of School.
The Battle ..
Man's Mission..
Thanksgiving
Once I was Pure
Souls, not Stations..
Katy Lee and Willie Gray..
What I Live for
In the Mines...
The World Would be the Better for it.......
Dirge for the Beautiful
Our Baby..
Kitty
Evening
What Might be Done.
The Fatherland...
The Children.
Two.
Up the Hill...
Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation..
The Miner..

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Pyron. 222
Schiller. 193

. Tennyson. 222
llorace Smith. 218

. Tennyson. 207
..Hood. 22

201
. Swain. 195
Felicia Hemans. 100

146
Gerald Massey. 78
.Peabody. 101

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117
206
137
141
143
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Cobb. 182

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.Luella Clark. 227

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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lecture on Tobacco.

Shopping...
1 Umbrellas...

16 Shirt Buttons.
Brimstone Morning at Dotheboys Hall..

Douglas Jerrold. 214

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