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N my house you have met General Bonaparte. Wellhe it is who would supply a father's place to the orphans of Alexander de Beauharnais, and a husband's to his widow. I admire the General's courage, the ex

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tent of his information, for on all subjects OLDIERS, what I have to offer

he talks equally well, and the quickness
of his judgment,
which enables him
toseizethethoughts
of others almost
before they are ex-
pressed; but, I con-
fess it, I shrink
from the despot-
ism he seems de-

you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual

sirous of exercising
over all who ap-
proach him His
searching glance
has something
singular and in-
explicable, which
imposes even on our
Directors; judge
if it may not in-
timidate a woman.
Even-what
ought to please me
-the force of a
passion, described
with an energy that
leaves not a doubt
of his sincerity, is precisely the cause
which arrests the consent I am often on
the point of pronouncing.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the
open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading
wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I
myself am good-fortune;
Henceforth I whimper no more, post-
Henceforth I whimper no more, post-
pone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries,
querulous criticisms,

Strong and content I travel the open road

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in "the still, small voice," and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!-Longfellow.

All seems beautiful to me.

I can repeat over to men and women,
You have done such good to me I
would do the same to you,

-Letters of Josephine.

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You better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. -Harriet Martineau.

I will recruit for myself and you as I go.
I will scatter myself among men and
women as I go,

I will toss a new gladness and roughness
among them.

"The Open Road," by Walt Whitman

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struggle with the bayonet against

batteries-those who love freedom and their country may follow me.

Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers.

HE chief difference between a wise man and an ignorant one is, not that the first is acquainted with regions invisible to the second,

away from common sight and interest, but that he understands the common things which the second only sees. -Starr King.

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.-Balzac.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.-Hannah More.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -James L. Allen.

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Andre, The fate of, Hamilton, 134.
Anger: Dangers of, Metchnikoff, 78; Work and,
Luther, 82; Dodsley, 164; Penn, 205.

Animals, Cruelty to, Victoria, 20.
Aphorisms, Disraeli, 225.
Apples, Burroughs, 92.

April, Watson, 171.
Argument, Gibbon, 94.

Aristocracy, Today and tomorrow, Mazzini, 60.
Art: Ingersoll, 89; Michelangelo, 176; Ruskin, 30;
and education, Whistler, 38; and life, Morris,
120; and nature, Dostoievski, 41; and science,
Opie, 153; Charm of, Guizot, 72; Work and,
Mathews, 19.

Artistic temperament, The, Phillips, 44.
Artist, The first, Whistler, 24.

Aspiration, Alcott, 62.

Autumn, Carman, 20; Landor, 193.

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Thoreau, 221; Alcott, 225; Milton, 228; Power of,
Kingsley, 17; Suppression of, Milton, 20; Love
of, Trollope, 62; Stimulation of, Hare, 72; and
adversity, Irving, 120.

Boy, The American, Roosevelt, 24.
Bunker Hill, Adams, 192.

Burns, Robert: Hillis, 96; Rosebery, 209.
Business: Common law of, Armour, 30; Success in,
Selfridge, 61.

By-products, Brisbane, 40.

Byron, Lord: Macaulay, 138; Thorwaldsen, 190.

Capital, and labor: Newcomb, 27; Lincoln, 50;
Swing, 175.

Carelessness, Noyes, 63.

Carpenter, The, Whitman, 124.

Castiglione, Count, Letter to, Raphael, 180.
Cato, Appreciation of, Franklin, 93.
Cellini, Benvenuto, Symonds, 189.

Character: Confucius, 224; Firmness of, Foster, 107;
Beauty of, Thoreau, 225.
Charitableness, Farrar, 89.
Charity, Hamerton, 179.

Cheerfulness: Carlyle, 68; Kingsley, 29; Wilder, 30;
and goodness, Ball, 88.
Child, The, Tagore, 54.

Children: Froebel, 26, 177; Brooks, 64; Burbank, 227;
Farrar, 67; Montessori, 64; Love of, Mansfield,
26; of the Ghetto, London, 42.
Chillon, Byron, 188.

Chivalry, The age of, Burke, 99.

Choir Invisible, The, George Eliot, 217.
Christmas, Dickens, 79.

Church: Roman and Protestant compared, White
197; The new, Emerson, 172; The, Garibaldi, 218.
Circumstantial evidence, Mark Twain, 57.
Civilization and slavery, Wilde, 48.
College, The, and democracy, 21.
Columbus, Joaquin Miller, 60.
Comfort, Peace and, Morris, 70.
Commercialism, Garfield, 169; Paine, 202.
Company, Great men as, Carlyle, 215.
Competition, Armour, 227.

Compromise, Watterson, 66.

Conduct: Newton, 211; The reward of good, Froebel,

182.

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Criticism, Haeckel, 89; Wilde, 200; Disraeli, 226.
Cruelty, Lamartine, 75.
Cynic, The, Wilde, 83.

Daisies, Carman, 100.

Dante, Michelangelo, 179.
Darwin, Charles, Huxley, 211.

Death: Bell, 15; Lincoln, 17; Stevenson, 49; Raleigh,
80; Tennyson, 101; Scott, 108; Stevenson, 108;
and life, Crosby, 43; The mystery of, Cook, 76;
Democracy of, Ingalls, 77; King, 97; a friend,
Franklin, 118.

Debt, a teacher, Emerson, 104.
Dedication, A, Kipling, 138.

Defoe, Daniel, Besant, 196.

Demagogues and Agitators, Disraeli, 196.
Democracy: Whitman, 121; Jay, 180; and England,
Cobden, 179.

Destiny, Burroughs, 8; Socrates, 109; Shakespeare, 185.
Dirt, The love of, Warner, 39.

Discipline: St. Benedict, 222; Plato, 23.

Discontent, Varities of, Graham, 78.
Discretion, Franklin, 225.

Divinity, Luther, 120.

Dore, Gustave, Roosevelt, 224.
Doubt, Stanislaus, 140.
Drama, The, Cushman, 26.
Dreamer, The, O'Reilly, 181.
Dreams, Davies, 181.

Duty: Beecher, 19; Osler, 70; Stevenson, 88; Millet 157

Education: Whitlock, 43; Locke, 68; Bismarck, 128;

Peabody, 211; Cooper, 214; Meaning of, Ruskin,
17; Benson, 73; and democracy, Wilson, 21;
Dangers of, Wu Ting-Fang, 55; A liberal, Hux-
ley, 90; First aim of, Seton, 145.
Egotism and ignorance, Bulwer-Lytton, 61.
Electricity, Wonders of, Hawthorne, 57.
Eloquence, Cicero, 87.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Holmes, 183.
Endeavor, Fiona Macleod, 142.
Energy, Buxton, 72.

England and America, Cobden, 187.
Enjoyment, Limits of, Webster, 58.
Enlightenment, Longfellow, 25.
Enthusiasm, Chester, 60.

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Folly and wisdom, Goldsmith, 86.
Food, Wiley, 145.

Foolishness: Lamb, 166; Mark Twain, 227.

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France, Anatole, Characterization of, Brandes, 52.
France, The Queen of, Burke, 99.

Franklin, Benjamin: Epitaph of, 129; Fiske, 199;
and Washington, Jefferson, 177.
Freedom: Kant, 222; Lowell, 32; Dangers of, Gar-
rick, 58; Guardians of, Depew, 74; of speech,
Bradlaugh, 72; of thought, Straus, 51; Principles
of, Paine, 204; Religious, Straus, 51; Carlyle, 180.
Free-Thought, Owen, 223.
Friendship: Gorky, 14; Montaigne, 75; Burroughs,
108; Washington, 26; Emerson, 83; Stevenson, 29;
Perils of, Bourne, 59; a gift, Hughes, 75.

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Habit: James, 76; Mann, 167; Astor, 211; Sweden-
borg, 214.

Handel, George Frederick, Beattie, 226.
Handshaking, Everett, 144.

Happiness: Southey, 16; Maeterlinck, 30; Edison, 21;
Fiske, 36; Jerrold, 70; Aurelius, 79; Santayana,
92; Franklin, 98; Ruskin, 102; Ingersoll, 106;
Cheney, 127; Aristotle, 214; an incident, Haw-
thorne, 47; The attainment of, Franklin, 19; and
passion, Tennyson, 83; and pleasure, Eliot, 198;
Barrie, 227; Balzac, 228.

Hardship, Garibaldi, 228.

Harmony, Eddy, 182.
Hate, Miller, 41.

Health: Disraeli, 220; Higginson, 222; and happi-

ness, Johnson, 96.

Heart, The human, Ouida, 41.
Herndon, Wm. H., Masters, 150.

Henry, Patrick, Henry, 192.
Hesitation, Lincoln, 149.

Historian, The perfect, Macaulay, 48.
History, Disraeli, 146.

Homesickness, Crosby, 31.

Honesty: Lippmann, 62; Carlyle, 189; of thought,
Haeckel, 82.

Honor, Shaw, 172.

Hooker, General J., Letter to, Lincoln, 177.
Humanity: Gorky, 14; George, 17; The war of,

Heine, 94; Franklin, 99; Comte, 211; Intellectual
development of, Fiske, 194; and literature,
Schopenhauer, 208; Love of, Lloyd, 24; War and,
Pasteur, 14.

Humility, Newton, 87.

Humor: Addison, 12; Beecher, 21; Forms of, Lamb,
63; and advertising, Ade, 54.
Hypocrisy, Savonarola, 164.

Idealism: Lee, 17; Lincoln, 17; Beecher, 19; Holmes,
25; Marden, 27; Sandburg, 30; Thackeray, 67;
Dreier, 94; Power of, Swing, 22.

Ideals: Grover, 62; Schurz, 222; Chinese, Dickinson,
97; and life, Van Dyke, 172.

Ideas: Old, Shaw, 30; and cities, Disraeli, 224.
Idleness: Haliburton, 198; Hillard, 214; Socrates,

215; Benefits of, Skinner, 36; and sickness,
Seneca, 53.

Ignorance: Confucius, 197, 227; and wisdom, King,

228.

Illusions, Mark Twain, 137.

Immortality: Voorhees, 62; Ingersoll, 88; Socrates,
109; Van Dyke, 142; Stevenson, 149.
Inconsistency, Whitman, 200.

Independence: Emerson, 29; Sumner, 72; Plutarch,
102.

Indians, The, Sprague, 95.

Indifference: Noyes, 63; Farrar, 67.

Industrialism, Keller, 12.

Industry: Page, 123; Whitman, 124; Franklin, 147.
Infinite, The, Hugo, 110; The thought of the,
Pasteur, 78.

Influence, Stephen, 23.

Ingersoll, Ebon C., Tribute to, Ingersoll, 131.

Innocence: Seneca, 208.

Inspiration: Bennett, 75; Dreier, 87.

Intelligence, Voltaire, 215.

Introspection: Whittier, 119; Smith, 127.

Jealousy: Stevenson, 97; National, Washington, 75.
Jefferson, Thomas, Straus, 51.

Jesus: Franklin, 104; Greatness of, Harris, 156.
Johnson, Samuel, Boswell, 186.
Josephine, Empress, Death of, Watson, 176.
Joy: a boomerang, Crawford, 17; Coates, 21; Willis,
91; Wagner, 164; and work, Briggs, 58; Art and,
Mathews, 19.

Judea, The Procurator of, France, 113.
Jury, The, Dickens, 88.

Justice: George Eliot, 14; Tolstoy, 16; and truth,
George, 47; Dickens, 88; Franklin, 89; Gals-
worthy, 126.

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Lee, Robert E., at Appomatox, Grant, 132.
L'Envoi, Kipling, 159.

Letters of recommendation, Franklin, 128.
Lexington, Battle of, Parker, 149.
Liberty: Whitlock, 61; Jefferson, 192; Ruskin, 157;
George, 203; Pitt, 224; and despotism, Garrison,
78; Political and economic, Whitlock, 43.
Library, In an old, Lamb, 56.

Life: Barbauld, 12; Bailey, 22; Ehrmann, 37; Mark
Twain, 69; Henry, 78; Hypatia, 190; Chateau-
briand, 215; Martineau, 228; Keat's dream of a
pleasant, 5; The abounding, Whiting, 13; Pur-
pose of, Swing, 22; End of, Landor, 27; Purpose
of, Altgeld, 30; and death, Crosby, 43; Growth of,
Gaynor, 44; Joy of, Morrow, 46; A strong,
Hamerton, 47; Love of, Goldsmith, 47; The ideal,
Brooks, 48; a succession of events, Hugo, 53;
Joys of, Goethe, 57; Mistakes of, Bronte, 57; The
consecrated, Van Dyke, 60; Joy of, Van Dyke, 66;
Beauty of, Kirkham, 66; Influences of, Channing,
67; Significance of, Hubbard, 68; Trials of,
Montaigne, 68; and thought, Lover, 69; an
inheritance, Lubbock, 71; The waste of, Cholmon-
deley, 72; Ideals of, Mill, 72; Purpose of, Wal-
lace, 73; Journey of, Rossetti, 73; The mystery of,
Cook, 76; The duty of, Bremer, 79; The conse-
crated, Dreier, 87; a looking-glass, Thackeray
92; The consecrated, Kleiser, 98; Joys of, Keats,
101; Preparation for, Burns, 110; Victory of,
Shelley, 111; a thought, Coleridge, 118; Sacred-
ness of, Griggs, 129; Joy of, Cherbuliez, 135;
Privileges of, Hazlitt, 136; Eternal, Shores, 136;
A Tragedy, Adler, 147; River of, Schreiner, 164;
Spiritual forces_of, Froebel, 165; of the spirit,
Garfield, 171; Ladder of, Brownell, 182; and
Love, Riley, 184; Object of, Cooper, 184; and
sorrow, Landor, 193; a play, Jonason, 195; and
love, Masters, 201; A generous, Ingersoll, 218;
Country, Beecher, 225.

Light: and shadow, Gay, 68; and darkness, Gale, 93.
Lincoln, Abraham: at Gettysburg, Mason, 37;
Lindsay, 45; Hay, 72; Whitman, 134.
Literature, Functions of, De Quincey, 64; Burroughs,
81.

Louvre, First visit to the, Millet, 174.

Love: Bourdillon, 89; Landor, 109; Stevenson, 126;

Dobson, 128; Byron, 140; Addison, 147; Burns,
158; Markham, 190; Fee, 204; Bowman, 223;
Stories of, Wells, 8; Divine, Holmes, 17; Sand-
burg, 30; Henley, 33; Language of, Maeterlinck,
38; a river, Beecher, 52; Qualities of, Ingersoll,
55; and beauty, Maeterlinck, 55; Beauty of,
Shelley, 56; of material things, Brooke, 57; of
country, Root, 64; Philosophy of, Shelley, 64;
Field of, Drummond, 69; Consciousness of, Long-
fellow, 66; Qualities of, Gautier, 71; The mystery
of, Cook, 76; and skill, Ruskin, 79; The nature of,
Rhys, 80; Key, 95; Perfect, Hazlitt, 100; The test
of, Westcott, 101; in return for evil, Buddha, 108;
of life, Beecher, 181; and life, Tebbetts, 178; and
death, Penn, 204.
Luck, Max O'Rell, 138.

Mahomet, Voltaire, 170.

Man: Turgenef, 11; Keller, 12; Addison, 12; Gorky,
14; Ovid, 26; Voltaire, 191; War and, Hugo, 12;
The measure of a, Brann, 16; Brotherhood of,
Lloyd, 24; A good, Plato, 26; Progress of, Amiel
29; The honest, Spencer, 81; Duty of government
to, Jefferson, 55; Greatness of, Pascal, 59;

Ignorance of, Bulwer-Lytton, 61; Confidence in,
Hadley, 61; and woman compared, Debs, 67;
The power of, Emerson, 94; The good, Curtis,
118; a book, Channing, 126; Influence of,
Dickens, 126; Worth of, Roosevelt, 137; Life of,
Andersen, 156; Kinship of, with the Divine,
Monahan, 167; with the hoe, The, Markham, 174;
a writing animal, Homer, 205; and woman,
Whitman, 225.

Mankind: Duty to, Ruskin, 29; The cause of,
Roosevelt, 145.

Manliness, Roosevelt, 24.

Manners and character, Winter, 98.

Marlborough, The Duke of, Thackeray, 160.
Marriage: Lecky, 62; Bacon, 102.

Martyr, The, Napoleon, 177.
Mary, Queen of Scots, Letter to, Knox, 197.
Matter and mind, Eddy, 180.
Mediocrity, Thackeray, 104.

Men: The need of, Hadley, 66; who do things,
Oliver, 77; Kinds of, Franklin, 98.

Mendelssohn, Felix, Taylor, 225.
Millet, Francois, Sensier, 175.
Millionaire, The, Lee, 17.

Mind: The, Bourdillon, 39; Shakespeare, 128; Free-
dom of, Longfellow, 25; Divine, Eddy, 177.
Minds, Great, Irving, 102.

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Napoleon, Phillips, 206; and Jesus compared,
Simonds, 130; Grave of, Ingersoll, 137; Character
of, De Stael, 158; Manners of, Josephine, 228.
Nature: Ingersoll, 13; Huxley, 25; Hoyt, 28; Law of,
Tolstoy, 15; The Law of, Emerson, 201; Human,
Bulwer-Lytton, 19; Imagination and, Blake, 25;
The drama of, Von Humboldt, 32; and art,
Dostoivski, 41; and Art, Whistler, 205; The God
of, Walton, 43; Beauties of, Whitman, 52, 66;
Beauties of, Dickens, 96; and mankind, Mabie,
53; and society, Wilde, 63; Joys of, Mitchell, 64;
Precepts of, Montessori, 64; Soul of, De Guerin,
65; Love of, Lubbock, 66; Motherhood of,
Stanton, 71; Charms of, Chateaubriand, 154;
Army of, James, 172.

Necessity, Burns, 110.

Negro, The, Washington, 182.
Nelson, Horatio: Southey, 162, 215.
Neo-platonism, Hypatia, 222.
New Year, The, Hunt, 78.

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Patience, Rousseau, 126.

Patriotism: Root, 64; Webster, 74.

Patronage, Johnson, 212.

Peace: Secret of, Besant, 68; Goethe, 96; of mind,

Stevenson, 164.

Pedestrianism, Burroughs, 65.
Penguinia, France, 170.
Penn, William, Straus, 51.
Perfection, Moral, Aurelius, 118.

Pericles, Appreciation of, Saltus, 26.
Personality, Eliot, 42.

Philosophy: Shaw, 10; Moral, Franklin, 99; Fichte,

161.

Piano, The, Liszt, 226.

Pictures, Horace, 101.
Plants, Huxley, 25.
Plato, Knox, 197.

Play: Stevenson, 47; Hall, 127; and work, Le Gal-
lienne, 38.

Pleasure: Southey, 16; Finck, 37.

Poetry: Greek and Roman, Markham, 74; Heine, 94;
Shelley, 125; Cushman, 26; Uses of, Darwin, 52;
and energy, Arnold, 76; Canton, 207.
Politicians and statesmen compared, Clarke, 202.
Pontius Pilate, France, 113.
Poppy, The California, Joaquin Miller, 13.
Poverty: Turgenef, 9; Shaw, 14; Hood, 29; Fischer,

31; Garfield, 144; Causes of, Whitlock, 43; and
crime, Griffith, 68; Fear of, James, 75; and
morality, Stevenson, 107; and riches, Tacitus, 225.
Prayer: Marden, 27; Evening, Stevenson, 43; The

actor's, Crane, 15; The optimist's, Robinson, 35;
Stevenson, 211; The fool's, Sill, 85.
Preacher, The, Gilman, 52.

Preaching and practice, Tolstoy, 54.

Present, The, Relation of, to past and future,
Webster, 58.

Pride: National, Herder, 27; Ben Azai, 45.
Printing: Meredith, 27; The business of, Porter, 92;
The art of, Mann, 60.
Printing press, The, Davis, 58.
Prisons, Fry, 224.

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