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. Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, OLDIERS, what I have to offer 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 nitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. 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 extent of his information, for on all subjects he talks equally well, and the quickness of his judgment, which enables him toseizethethoughts of others almost before they are expressed; but, I confess it, I shrink from the despotsirous of exercising over all who approach him. His searching glance has something singular and inexplicable, which imposes evenon our Directors; judge if it may not intimidate a woman. Even-what ought to please me -the force of a passion, described with an energy that leaves not a doubt ism he seems de Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good-fortune; Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road 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, 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. mu 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. "The Open Road," by Walt Whitman of his sincerity, is precisely the cause which arrests the consent I am often on the point of pronouncing. -Letters of Josephine. 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. now wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet of old, 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. 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. America, the melting-pot, Zangwill, 96. Amusement: Balzac, 140; and work, Ruskin, 31. 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. Argument, Gibbon, 94. Aristocracy, Today and tomorrow, Mazzini, 60. Artistic temperament, The, Phillips, 44. Aspiration, Alcott, 62. Autumn, Carman, 20; Landor, 193. Baltimore, Lord, Straus, 51. Beautiful, The, Grayson, 38. Beauty: Balzac, 15; an all-pervading presence, Beethoven, Music of, Wagner, 71. Behavior, Necker, 143. Belief: Terence, 168; Disraeli, 215. Bibieni, Cardinal, Letter to niece of, Raphael, 188. Bible, The: Aked, 227; Gladden, 227; and democracy, Bigotry, O'Connell, 33. Birth of a child, Tagore, 54. Bixby, Mrs., Letter to, Lincoln, 133. Brahma, Emerson, 146. Bravery, Shakespeare, 189. Bribery, Garrick, 58. Britain, Great, Jay, 193. Brotherhood of man: Herron, 32; Markham, 35, 39; George, 17; Terry, 19; Altgeld, 30; Mills, 78; Brown, John: Wise, 119; His address to the court, Books, Bacon, 8; Gosse, 27; Burroughs, 81; Channing, 153, 198; Traubel, 161; Barrow, 171; Curtis, 179; Thoreau, 221; Alcott, 225; Milton, 228; Power of, Boy, The American, Roosevelt, 24. Bunker Hill, Adams, 192. Burns, Robert: Hillis, 96; Rosebery, 209. By-products, Brisbane, 40. Byron, Lord: Macaulay, 138; Thorwaldsen, 190. Capital, and labor: Newcomb, 27; Lincoln, 50; Carelessness, Noyes, 63. Carpenter, The, Whitman, 124. Castiglione, Count, Letter to, Raphael, 180. Character: Confucius, 224; Firmness of, Foster, 107; Chillon, Byron, 188. Chivalry, The age of, Burke, 99. Church: Roman and Protestant compared, White College, The, and democracy, 21. Columbus, Joaquin Miller, 60. Comfort, Peace and, Morris, 70. Commercialism, Garfield, 169; Paine, 202. Compromise, Watterson, 66. Conduct: Newton, 211; The reward of good, Froebel, 182. Confidence, Cavour, 97; Lack of, Bovee, 56. Contentment: Brooks, 17; Keats, 101; Riley, 167. Co-operation, Aurelius, 211; Blatchford, 20; Fitch, Corruption, Political, Macdonald, 225. Country: Life in, Penn, 210; Dickens, 83; Petrarch, 222. Courage: Carlyle, 225; Allen, 228; and perseverance, Courtesy, Washington, 26. Craftsmanship: Ruskin, 30; Lippmann, 62. Crime, Meredith, 111; and poverty, Griffith, 68. i Criticism, Haeckel, 89; Wilde, 200; Disraeli, 226. Cruelty, Lamartine, 75. Cynic, The, Wilde, 83. Daisies, Carman, 100. Death: Bell, 15; Lincoln, 17; Stevenson, 49; Raleigh, 80; Tennyson, 101; Scott, 108; Stevenson, 108; Debt, a teacher, Emerson, 104. Demagogues and Agitators, Disraeli, 196. Destiny, Burroughs, 8; Socrates, 109; Shakespeare, 185. Discipline: St. Benedict, 222; Plato, 23. Divinity, Luther, 120. Dore, Gustave, Roosevelt, 224. Doubt, Stanislaus, 140. Drama, The, Cushman, 26. Duty: Beecher, 19; Osler, 70; Stevenson, 88; Millet 157 Education: Whitlock, 43; Locke, 68; Bismarck, 128; Egotism and ignorance, Bulwer-Lytton, 61. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Holmes, 188. Endeavor, Fiona Macleod, 142. Energy, Buxton, 72. England and America, Cobden, 187. Enjoyment, Limits of, Webster, 58. Enlightenment, Longfellow, 25. Enthusiasm, Chester, 60. Folly and wisdom, Goldsmith, 86. Food, Wiley, 145. Foolishness: Lamb, 166; Mark Twain, 227. France, Anatole, Characterization of, Brandes, 52. Franklin, Benjamin: Epitaph of, 129; Fiske, 199; Freedom: Kant, 222; Lowell, 82; Dangers of, Gar- Friendship: Gorky, 14; Montaigne, 75; Burroughs, Gardens, Smith, 65. Genius: Schopenhauer, 88; and industry, Ralph, 55; Gettysburg, Address at, Lincoln, 88. Ghetto, Children of the, London, 42. Gifts, Paine, 202. Girard, Stephen, Will of, 168. Gladstone, Disraeli, 192. God and His attributes, Carruth, 154; Letters from, Golden Rule, The, Markham, 39. Good and evil: Lincoln, 86; Swing, 92. Government: Paine, 204; The American, Cobden, Gratitude: Coates, 21; Newcomb, 23. Greatness: Irving, 102; Bacon, 155; The mark of, Grief, Hitopadesa, 21. Habit: James, 76; Mann, 167; Astor, 211; Sweden- Handel, George Frederick, Beattie, 226. Happiness: Southey, 16; Maeterlinck, 30; Edison, 21; Hardship, Garibaldi, 228. Hate, Miller, 41. Idealism: Lee, 17; Lincoln, 17; Beecher, 19; Holmes, Ideals: Grover, 62; Schurz, 222; Chinese, Dickinson, Ideas: Old, Shaw, 30; and cities, Disraeli, 224. Ignorance: Confucius, 197, 227; and wisdom, King, 228. Illusions, Mark Twain, 137. Immortality: Voorhees, 62; Ingersoll, 88; Socrates, Independence: Emerson, 29; Sumner, 72; Plutarch, Indians, The, Sprague, 95. Indifference: Noyes, 63; Farrar, 67. Industry: Page, 123; Whitman, 124; Franklin, 147. Jealousy: Stevenson, 97; National, Washington, 75. Jesus: Franklin, 104; Greatness of, Harris, 156. Josephine, Empress, Death of, Watson, 176. Judea, The Procurator of, France, 113. Justice: George Eliot, 14; Tolstoy, 16; and truth, Kinship, Terry, 19. Knowledge: Fuller, 12; Smith, 127; and wisdom, Labor: and capital, Newcomb, 27; Foolishness of, Lake, The, Thoreau, 65. Lamb, Charles, Hazlitt, 146. Land: Man and the, George, 89, 199. Law: and tyranny, Pitt, 185; Spiritual, Eddy, 185; Lawyers, Seward, 80. Leadership, Newcomb, 27. Lee, Robert E., at Appomatox, Grant, 132. Letters of recommendation, Franklin, 128. Liberty: Whitlock, 61; Jefferson, 192; Ruskin, 157; Life: Barbauld, 12; Bailey, 22; Ehrmann, 37; Mark Light: and shadow, Gay, 68; and darkness, Gale, 93. Louvre, First visit to the, Millet, 174. Love: Bourdillon, 89; Landor, 109; Stevenson, 126; Luck, Max O'Rell, 133. Mahomet, Voltaire, 170. Man: Turgenef, 11; Keller, 12; Addison, 12; Gorky, Ignorance of, Bulwer-Lytton, 61; Confidence in, Mankind: Duty to, Ruskin, 29; The cause of, Manliness, Roosevelt, 24. Manners and character, Winter, 98. Marlborough, The Duke of, Thackeray, 160. Mary, Queen of Scots, Letter to, Knox, 197. Men: The need of, Hadley, 66; who do things, Mind: The, Bourdillon, 39; Shakespeare, 128; Free- Minds, Great, Irving, 102. Mining, Coal, Untermeyer, 25. Mirth, Beecher, 21. Misery, Untermeyer, 25. Mockingbird, The, Hayes, 16. Moderation: Garrison, 22; Aristotle, 57. Mona Lisa, The, Pater, 100. Money: Lorimer, 96; Stevenson, 133; Greeley, 142; Morality: Eliot, 126; Maeterlinck, 200; and religion, Morning, A wish, Hunt, 73. Morris, William, Tebbetts, 178. Music: Browne, 70; Dwight, 86; Holland, 117; Napoleon, Phillips, 206; and Jesus compared, Simonds, 130; Grave of, Ingersoll, 137; Character Necessity, Burns, 110. Negro, The, Washington, 182. Nelson, Horatio: Southey, 162, 215. Neo-platonism, Hypatia, 222. New Year, The, Hunt, 78. Paine, Thomas, Letter to, Franklin, 143. Paris, First visit to, Millet, 173. Parnell, Charles Stewart, O'Shea, 226. Patriotism: Root, 64; Webster, 74. Peace: Secret of, Besant, 68; Goethe, 96; of mind, Pedestrianism, Burroughs, 65. Penguinia, France, 170. Penn, William, Straus, 51. Perfection, Moral, Aurelius, 118. Pericles, Appreciation of, Saltus, 26. Philosophy: Shaw, 10; Moral, Franklin, 99; Fichte, 161. Piano, The, Liszt, 226. Pictures, Horace, 101. Plato, Knox, 197. Play: Stevenson, 47; Hall, 127; and work, Le Gal- Pleasure: Southey, 16; Finck, 37. Poetry: Greek and Roman, Markham, 74; Heine, 94; Poppy, The California, Joaquin Miller, 13. Present, The, Relation of, to past and future, Pride: National, Herder, 27; Ben Azai, 45. Printing press, The, Davis, 58. Procrastination, Franklin, 25. Progress: Amiel, 29; in life, Carlyle, 65; Cooper, 184; Prophet, The, Traubel, 11. Proserpine, In the garden of, Swinburne, 209. |