1902.

UKE

DIRECTORS OF THE OLD SOUTH WORK.

OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE.

IOI.

102.

103.

104.

JOHN ADAMS'S INAUGURAL

JEFFERSON'S INAUGURALS

105.

ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA IN 1803

106. CALHOUN ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES .

107.

LINCOLN'S COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS.

. .

108.

CHANCELLOR

LIVINGSTON ON THE INVENTION OF THE

STEAMBOAT

IIO.

109. HORACE MANN'S ADDRESS ON THE GROUND OF THE FREE

SCHOOL SYSTEM.

CONTENTS.

GROTIUS'S "RIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE"

COLUMBUS'S ACCOUNT OF CUBA

I 20.

121.

.

RUFUS CHOATE'S ADDRESS ON THE ROMANCE OF NEW ENG-

LAND HISTORY

225

III.

6 I12.

KOSSUTH'S FIRST SPEECH IN FANEUIL HALL

KING ALFRED'S DESCRIPTION OF EUROPE

245

113. AUGUSTINE IN ENGLAND, from Alfred's Version of BEDE, 265

114. THE HAGUE ARBITRATION TREATY

285

301

115. JOHN CABOT'S DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA.

116.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA

FROBISHER'S FIRST VOYAGE

I22.

117.

118. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT'S EXPEDITION TO NEW FOUND-

123.

124. PASSAGES FROM MORE'S" UTOPIA"

125.

PASSAGES FROM WYCLIF'S BIBLE

187882

LAND

119. RALEIGH'S FIRST ROANOKE COLONY,- RALPH LANE'S AC-

COUNT

GOSNOLD'S SETTLEMENT AT CUTTYHUNK,― ARCHER'S AC-

COUNT

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH'S DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND

RICHARD HAKLUYT'S DISCOURSE ON WESTERN PLANTING. 437

PASSAGES FROM DANTE'S "DE MONARCHIA"

453

465

481

25

57

73

89

117

141

161

177

201

313

333

349

381

405
417

THE PROLEGOMENA TO GROTIUS'S WORK, "DE JURE BELLI ET PACIS."

1. The civil law, both that of Rome and that of each nation in particular, has been treated of, with a view either to illustrate it or to present it in a compendious form, by many. But international law, that which regards the mutual relations of several peoples or rulers of peoples,- whether it proceed from nature or be instituted by divine command or introduced by custom and tacit compact, has been touched on by few, and has been by no one treated as a whole in an orderly manner. And yet that this be done concerns the human race.

2. For rightly did Cicero call that an excellent science which includes the alliances, treaties, and covenants of peoples, kings, and nations, and all the rights of war and peace. And Euripides prefers this science to the knowledge of things human and divine; for he makes Helen address Theonoe thus:

'Twould be a base reproach
That you, who know th' affairs of gods and men
Present and future, know not what is just.

3. And such a work is the more necessary on this account,that there are not wanting persons in our own time, and there have been also in former times persons, who have despised what has been done, in this province of jurisprudence, so far as to hold that no such thing existed except as a mere name. Every one can quote the saying of Euphemius in Thucydides, that for a king or a city which has an empire to main