Literature, Brown University.

EDWIN M. BACON, Former Editor "Boston Advertiser" and
"Boston Post."

J. WALKER MCSPADDEN, Managing Editor "Edition Royale"
of Balzac's Works.

F. CUNLIFFE OWEN, Member Editorial Staff "New York
Tribune."

TRUMAN A. DEWEESE, Member Editorial Staff "Chicago
Times-Herald."

CHAMP CLARK, Member of Congress from Missouri.

MARCUS BENJAMIN, Editor, National Museum, Washington,
D. C.

CLARK HOWELL, Editor "Atlanta Constitution."

INTRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES BY

THOMAS B. REED, HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE,
LORENZO SEARS, JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER,
CHAMP CLARK, EDWARD EVERETT HALE,
ALBERT ELLERY BERGH.

NOTE--A large number of the most distinguished speakers of this country
and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches for this
Library. These speakers include Whitelaw Reid, William Jennings Bryan,
Henry van Dyke, Henry M Stanley, Newell Dwight Hillis, Joseph Jefferson,
Sir Henry Irving, Arthur T. Hadley, John D. Long, David Starr Jordan,
and many others of equal note.

CONTENTS

VOLUME II
PAGE

EGGLESTON, GEORGE CARY
Southern Literature 423

ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM
Harvard and Yale 427

ELIOT, SAMUEL A.
The Source of Song and Story 431

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
England, Mother of Nations 437
The Memory of Burns 439
War 442
The Wisdom of China 445

EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL
International Arbitration 448
The Republic and Its Outlook 452
The French Alliance 457
Tribute to Herbert Spencer 462
The Classics in Education 465
Liberty Enlightening the World 469

EWING, THOMAS C.
Ohio and the Northwest 474

FARRAR, FREDERIC WILLIAM
Poet and Painter