ry's battle-line and the Indian heroines of
Cooper and Longfellow. Through her the desolate island of Long Point is
richly dowered with the interest which a brave and generous action gives
to its locality.

VOLUME VI. OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES, plus PERSONAL SKETCHES AND TRIBUTES and HISTORICAL PAPERS

CONTENTS

OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES.
JOHN BUNYAN
THOMAS ELLWOOD
JAMES NAYLER
ANDREW MARVELL
JOHN ROBERTS
SAMUEL HOPKINS
RICHARD BAXTER
WILLIAM LEGGETT
NATHANIEL PEABODY ROGERS
ROBERT DINSMORE
PLACIDO, THE SLAVE POET

PERSONAL SKETCHES AND TRIBUTES.
THE FUNERAL OF TORREY
EDWARD EVERETT
LEWIS TAPPAN
BAYARD TAYLOR
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD
LYDIA MARIA CHILD

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
LONGFELLOW
OLD NEWBURY
SCHOOLDAY REMEMBRANCES
EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE

HISTORICAL PAPERS.
DANIEL O'CONNELL
ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II.
THE BORDER WAR OF 1708
THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT
THE BOY CAPTIVES
THE BLACK MEN IN THE REVOLUTION AND WAR OF 1812
THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS
THE PILGRIMS OF PLYMOUTH
GOVERNOR ENDICOTT
JOHN WINTHROP

OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES

Inscribed as follows, when first collected in book-form:--
To Dr. G. BAILEY, of the National Era, Washington, D. C., these
sketches, many of which originally appeared in the columns of the
paper under his editorial supervision, are, in their present form,
offered as a token of the esteem and confidence which years of
political and literary communion have justified and confirmed, on
the part of his friend and associate,
THE AUTHOR.

JOHN BUNYAN.

"Wouldst see
A man I' the clouds, and hear him speak to thee?"

Who has not read Pilgrim's Progress? Who has not, in childhood,
followed the wandering Christian on his way to the Celestial City? Who
has not laid at night his young head on the pillow, to paint on the
walls of darkness pictures of the Wicket Gate and the Archers, the Hill
of Difficulty, the Lions and Giants, Doubting Castle and Vanity Fair,
the sunny D