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Dwight, John S., 211.

Flint, J. G., 203.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 100, 259, 260,

449.

Goethe, Johann von, 195, 451.
Gough, John B., 200.
Gray, Thomas, 263, 448.
Hale, Mrs. S. J., 67.

Hemans, Mrs. Felicia, 22, 48, 60.
Henry, Patrick, 138, 453.
Higginson, Thomas W., 132, 469.
Howitt, William, 49.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 331, 335,
342, 344.

Hoyles, Retta A., 79, 216.

Irving, Washington, 46, 88, 111,
134, 229, 276, 278.

Jonson, Ben, 237.

King, Thomas Starr, 42, 469.
Kingsley, Charles, 191, 467..
Kinney, Coates, 53.

Lawrence, Jonathan, 215.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
60, 187, 311, 317, 325.

Macaulay, Thomas B., 162, 461.
Marsden, William, 220.
Miller, Emily H., 117.
Mitchell, Donald Grant, 221.
Motherwell, William, 63.
Montgomery, James, 160.
Moore, Thomas, 76, 209, 214, 455.

Neal, John, 179.

O'Reilly, John Boyle, 168.
Payne, John Howard, 161.
Peabody, S. H., 107.
Percival, James G., 196, 460.
Pierpont, John, 145.
Pope, Alexander, 131.
Powell, J. W., 33, 471.
Ruskin, John, 55.
Russell, J., 223.

Saxe, J. G., 202, 238, 466.
Shakespeare, William, 233, 245,
255, 413.
Solomon, 224.

Southey, Caroline, 54.

Sprague, Charles, 118, 129, 459.
Swain, Charles, 222.

Taylor, B. F., 212.

Taylor, Jane, 120, 242.

Tennyson, Alfred, 349, 351, 352,
353, 354, 355, 356, 359, 364,
371, 376.

Thoreau, Henry D., 103, 468.

Trollope, Anthony, 27.

Tyndall, John, 17.

Washburn, Cad. L., 91.
Washington, George, 151.
Webster, Daniel, 157, 178, 459.
Willis, N. P., 182, 458.
Winthrop, Robert C., 153, 465.
Wordsworth, William, 62, 75, 454.

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COUNT this thing to be grandly true:

That a noble deed is a step towards GodLifting the soul from the common clod

To a purer air and a broader view.

-J. G. HOLLAND.

OOKS are the true levelers. They give to all who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual pres

ence of the best and greatest of our race.

CHANNING.

DUCATION, briefly, is the leading of human souls

to what is best, and making what is best of them; and these two objects are always attainable together and by the same means.

-RUSKIN.

UR country! 'tis a glorious land,

With broad arms stretched from shore to shore;

The proud Pacific chafes her strand,

She hears the dark Atlantic's roar;

And nurtured on her ample breast
How many a goodly prospect lies,
In nature's wildest grandeur dressed,
Enameled with her loveliest dyes!

-WILLIAM JEWETT PABODIE

FIFTH READER.

ADVANCED READINGS IN LITERATURE: SCIENTIFIC, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, PATRIOTIC,

AND MISCELLANEOUS.

PART I.

1. THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN.

As surely as the force which moves a clock's hands is derived from the arm which winds up the clock, so surely is all terrestrial power drawn from the sun. Leaving out of account the eruptions of volcanoes, and the ebb and flow of the tides, every mechanical action on the earth's surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere a gas, and all the storms which agitate both are blown by the mechanical force of the sun. He lifts the rivers and the glaciers up to the mountains: and thus the cataract and the avalanche shoot with an energy derived immediately from him.

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Thunder and lightning are also his transmitted strength. Every fire that burns and every flame that glows, dispenses light and heat which originally belonged to the sun. In these days, unhappily, the news of battle is familiar to us, but every shock and every charge is an application or misapplication of the mechanical force of the sun. He blows the trumpet, he urges the projectile, he bursts the bomb. And, remember, this is not poetry, but rigid mechanical truth.

He rears, as I have said, the whole vegetable world, and through it the animal; the lilies of the field are his workmanship, the verdure of the meadows, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. He forms the muscles, he urges the blood, he builds the brain. His fleetness is in the lion's foot; he springs in the panther, he soars in the eagle, he slides in the snake. He builds the forest and hews it down, the power which raised the tree, and which wields the axe, being one and the same. The clover sprouts and blossoms, and the scythe of the mower swings, by the operation of the same force.

The sun digs the ore from our mines; he rolls the iron; he rivets the plates; he boils the water; he draws the train. He not only grows the cotton, but he spins the fibre and weaves the web. There is not a hammer raised, a wheel turned, or a shuttle thrown, that is not raised, and turned, and thrown by the sun.

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