ng_ 291
Signing Petitions 296

IN TIME OF WAR

Great Little Rivers _Frazier Hunt_ 299
The Burial of Sir John Moore _Charles Wolfe_ 302
Lexington and Concord _William Emerson_ 304
Herve Riel _Robert Browning_ 307
The Song of the Camp _Bayard Taylor_ 313
Cabin Boy and Admiral 315
Little Giffen _Francis O. Ticknor_ 320
Marco Bozzaris _Fitz-Greene Halleck_ 322
San Juan Hill _General John J. Pershing_ 325
Burial of a Soldier in France _Gerald M. Dwyer_ 329

OUR COUNTRY

America for Me _Henry van Dyke_ 333
Warren's Address at the Battle of Bunker Hill _John Pierpont_ 335
What is an American? _Hector Saint Jean de Crevec[oe]ur_ 336
The Rising of '76 _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 338
Our Own Country _James Montgomery_ 342
Patrick Henry's Speech 343
Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby 347
The Flower of Liberty _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 348
True Patriotism _Benjamin Harrison_ 350
America the Beautiful _Katharine Lee Bates_ 352
O Beautiful! My Country! _James Russell Lowell_ 353
The Problems of the Republic _Theodore Roosevelt_ 354
The Meaning of Americanism _Charles Evans Hughes_ 356
What Constitutes a State? _William Jones_ 359
A Patriotic Creed _Edgar A. Guest_ 360

FROM GREAT BOOKS

The Lists at Ashby _Sir Walter Scott_ 363
The Twenty-Third Psalm _The Bible_ 376
Doubting Castle _John Bunyan_ 377
Christmas Eve at Fezziwig's _Charles Dickens_ 384
Jean Valjean Meets the Bishop _Victor Hugo_ 387
A Voyage to Lilliput _Jonathan Swift_ 394
The Struggle in the Arena _Henryk Sienkiewicz_ 405
Polonius's Advice to his Son _William Shakespeare_ 413
Mercy