Catalogue of Standard Recitations, Numbers 19-34 For School, Lyceum, Parlor and Other Entertainments

The selections from Bret Harte, Whittier, Aldrich and Mrs. Celia Thaxter are used by kind permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 25.

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A Bachelor. |One of the Multitude. By Edgar I. Brenner 31| By Margaret Veley 47 A City Incident. |“Our Times not Degenerate.” George Bancroft Griffith 20| By Chas. Emory Smith 5 A Noble Mind in a Grand |Patient Mercy Jones. Body 38| By James T. Fields 13 A Paraphrase of Seneca. |Remembrance of Wrongs. By Eugene Field 17| Rufus Choate 10 A Picture. |Royalty. Thomas S. Collier 7 By H. Antoine D’Arcy 15|The Skeleton Soldier. After Death in Arabia. | Mrs. Findley Braden 33 Sir Edwin Arnold 8|The Stones of Manhattan. An Old Temperance Poem 29| By Willis Fletcher Johnson 34 Batyushka. T. B. Aldrich 15|The Two Brothers. By B. E. E. 9 Ballad of the Bloody Brook. |The King’s Daughters 21 By Edward Everett Hale 3|The Centre of Gravity 22 Boys, Go Home 25|The Four Princes. Comfort One Another 44| Arthur G. Geoghegan 23 Crying for the Moon 35|The Poet’s Political Thoughts. Death Carol. Walt. Whitman 19| John Greenleaf Whittier 25 Evil of Duelling. |The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh. By Lyman Beecher 12| John Eliot Bowen 37 Extract from “How I Consulted |The Game of Warriors 41 the Oracle of the |The Yellow Sands of Sussex. Goldfishes.” | By Douglas Sladen 43 James Russell Lowell 10|The Face Upon the Floor. Farmer Kent’s Parson. | H. Antoine D’Arcy 16 Margaret Holmes 40|The King’s Dust. Found Dead. | Harriet Prescott Spofford 12 By Sarah T. Bolton 26|The Church and the World. Good-by Er Howdy-do? | By Mathilda C. Edwards 27 J. Whitcomb Riley 42|The Simple Man and the Wise Man. Have Patience 44| Pollok 45 If. By Anstiss W. Curtiss 46|The Moan of the Attic. Illusions. By E. A. 36| Margaret J. Preston 4 In Eulogy of Water. |To Florence Nightingale of By Emory Storrs 8| England. By John Greenleaf Moral Power of Public Opinion. | Whittier 10 Daniel Webster 20|Two. By Rose Terry Cooke 11 No National Greatness Without |Under the Daisies 32 Morality. |Waiting for the Mail. By W. E. Channing 45| By S. W. Foss 40 Nobility 48|War with Big Guns 30 Old Boys. George W. Bungay 39|“Where the Willow Makes a Our Lady of the Mine 24| Shade” 18

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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 26.

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The Sacrifice of Abraham. |The Lady of the Rock. N. P. Willis 3| Thomas Dunn English 25 The Angel and the Shepherds. |A Ballad of East and West. (From Ben Hur). | Yussuf 27 Lew Wallace 5|The Light from over the The Dead Student. | Range 28 Will M. Carleton 6|Charlie Wong. Henry W. Grady. | H. Antoine D’Arcy 30 James Whitcomb Riley 7|The Indian’s Tale. The Fratricide. | John Greenleaf Whittier 31 John Greenleaf Whittier 8|Cities. Anonymous 32 Back from the War. |The Leper. N. P. Willis 33 T. De Witt Talmage 10|The Death of the Count Armaniac. The Luck of Edenhall. | A. Mary F. Robinson 36 H. W. Longfellow 10|One Thing at a Time 36 That Waltz of Von Weber. |Song of the Mountaineers. Nora Perry 11| T. Buchanan Read 37 Water and Rum. |The Battle Hymn. John B. Gough 12| Theodore Körner 38 The Boy who helps his Mother 13|A Beautiful Death. Eli Perkins 38 Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette 14|Annie’s Ticket 39 Miriam’s Song. |Bad Prayers. Bronson Alcott 39 Thomas Moore 14|Mattie Stephenson. Anonymous 40 Toussaint L’Ouverture. |The Two Pictures 40 Wendell Phillips 15|Where God’s Hand is Seen. The Engineer’s Story. | Captain Jack Crawford 42 Eugene J. Hall 16|The Sway of the Senses 43 The Influence of Woman. |Burial of the Minnisink. Webster 16| H. W. Longfellow 44 His Mother’s Songs 17|Mary O’Connor, the Mother’s Doughnuts. | Volunteer’s Wife. Charles F. Adams 18| Mary A. Denison 45 Useless Philosophers 18|The Preservation of the Union. The Grave. H. W. Longfellow 19| Daniel Webster 45 I wouldn’t—Would you? |Our Women Heroes. Anonymous 19| Kate Brownlee Sherwood 46 Despair. Dow, Jr. 20|The Prayers of all Living The Wife’s Appeal 21| Creatures 46 Praying for Shoes. |Wisdom Dearly Purchased. Paul Hamilton Hayne 21| Edmund Burke 47 The New South. H. W. Grady 23|Keep Pegging Away 48 Lincoln. James R. Lowell 24|

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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 27.

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The Seeking. J. T. Trowbridge 3|Margaret. Henry William Herbert 28 The Ballad of the King’s Jest. |Wasted. Rev. J. F. Norton 29 Yussuf 4|Gentleman Jim. Two Offerings. | Daniel O’Connell 30 Henry W. Longfellow 6|Civilization of Africa. A History. T. De Witt-Talmagen 7| Edward Everett 31 The Senator’s Grandmother. |A Story of Fredericksburg. Patience Stapleton 8| Herbert W. Collingwood 31 The March of the Years. |Grandfather’s Rose. Marianne Farningham 10| Mary A. Denison 32 The Song of the Sirens. |The Mirage. H. T. B. 33 F. Marion Crawford 11|Christianity Essential to Agriculture. D. S. Dickinson 12| Liberty. Kossuth 33 Wealth Untold. |Two Sinners. Charles Mackay, LL.D. 13| Ella Wheeler Wilcox 34 Irish Hearts and Irish Hands. |The Shunammite. N. P. Willis 35 Mary E. Blake 13|The Demon of the Fire. Fame, Wealth, Life, Death. | Edgar A. Poe 37 Walter W. Skeat 14|The Successful Farmer 38 Down in the Valley. M. Quad 15|Who carries on the Business. The Home Fireside. Mary Rowles 16| Alfred J. Hough 38 Some Things Forever 17|Happy the Man of Steadfast Stratford Fountain. | Faith. Solomon Solis-Cohen 39 Oliver Wendell Holmes 17|The Sailor Boy’s Sister. Sympathy. Chriss Wilson 19| Francis Lucas 39 The World is what we make it. |Human Love 40 S. Moore 19|My Picture Gallery. A Woman’s Story 19| Adelaide Anne Proctor 40 Life’s Game of Ball 21|A Pack of Cards. Janet Cossar 41 The most gifted of Mortals 22|A Lame Boy’s Query. To a Lady for a Picture of | Alexander L. Kinkead 42 Pansies. T. W. Parsons 23|Kate. B. F. Sawyer 43 Just Away. J. W. Riley 23|The Ould Canteen 43 The Lost Kiss. J. W. Riley 24|The Cell of the Missionary. The Wonderful Country. | W. L. Bowles 44 John Boyle O’Reilly 24|Uncle Jake. Kris Kyle 45 The Power of Love. |The Tyneside Widow. J. W. Donovan 25| Algernon Charles Swinburne 46 Lost at Sea. C. S. Williams 25|The Convict’s Mother. Lost in the Clouds. | Katherine S. Mason 47 Mary E. Bryan 26|Of His Pitiable Transformation. The Dome of the Republic. | Robert Louis Stevenson 47 Anonymous 28|Ostler Joe. Geo. R. Sims 48

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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 28.

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The Ballad of the Colors. |Tim Murphy’s Stew 25 Thomas Dunne English 3|De Yaller Chinee 25 The Dying Umpire 4|Exclamatory 26 Goliath and David 4|Getting Right Up 27 Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. |He Guessed he’d Fight 27 Chas. F. Adams 5|Address of the President of Sned Skinflint’s Scheme. R.K.M. 5| the Lazy Club. Anonymous 28 Diamond cut Diamond. By |Paddy’s Reflections on John E. M‘Cann 6| Cleopathera’s Needle. Rory’s Kissing School 7| Cormac O’Leary 29 Reading a Dime Novel 8|Why she was Salted 29 Paddy ye Rascal 9|More Coyness 30 Uncle Peter’s Counsel to the |A Costly Beverage 30 Newly Married. Edmund Kirke 9|Smoking his First Cigar 30 Bravest of the Brave. |The Mosquito Adjured 31 R. J. Burdette 10|She was a Shaker 32 A Wail of Toe 10|The Bicycle and the Pup 32 Mine Shildren. |The Mutilated Currency Question 32 Charles Follen Adams 10|Carl Dunder Talks to the The Cultured Daughter of a | Children 33 Plain Grocer 11|Business and Gambling 34 Kelly at the Bat 12|Fate 34 “De ’Lection fer Jedge.” |Some Simple Says 34 Unk’l Isam 13|The Girl-Shooter 34 What is Done at Saratoga. |About Bores. Alexander E. Sweet 35 By John G. Saxe 14|Hamlet to his Mother 36 When Greek meets Greek. Anon. 15|Quit your Foolin’ 37 Rules for Husbands 15|The Necktie 37 Rules for Wives 16|A Leadville Sermon on the Hustler Joe 16| “Prod.” 37 Coming Home. |How they Said Good-Night 38 Hugh Willoughby Sweeney 17|Uncle Moses and the Comet. The Minstrels of the Night 18| Ruth Argyle 39 Baggage-Master Brick’s Lunch |His Heart was True to Poll 40 Can 18|Pat’s Love. By Joe Jot, Jr. 41 Short Summer Sermons. |The Montgomery Guard 42 By Bro. Gardner 19|Too Many for Him 42 In Holland. Eugene Field 19|Method in It 43 The Soft Guitar. P. F. Bowne 20|His Guileless Look. He Led his Class 20| Thomas Holmes 42 “Human Natur’.” |Our Minister’s Sermon 44 By Bro. Gardner 21|Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Shoo 21| Opera 44 The New Lochinvar 22|A Street Gamin’s Story of the The Banana Peel 23| Play. Anonymous 46 “Der Kicker und der Krank.” |The Country Store. Nathan Emile Pickhardt 23| D. Urner 47 Uncle Pete and Marse George. |The Printer’s Revenge 48 Anon. 23|The Father to his Boy 48

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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 29.

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The Captain’s Well. |An Essay on Home. By J. G. Whittier 3| By Margaret O’Gorman 25 At Fredericksburg—Dec. 13, |Retrospection. Alfred Lyall 26 1862. John Boyle O’Reilly 4|Matins. Edna Dean Proctor 28 Extract from Blaine’s Oration |An Army Overcoat. on James A. Garfield 6| George Archibald 29 Drawing for Furlough 7|Little Tom. C. B. Lewis 30 The Ride of Paul Venarez 8|The March of the Workers. Who’s Dead. Thomas Frost 9| William Morris 31 The Peril of the Mines 10|The Seafarer. G. R. Merry 32 Heroes. Francis A. Shaw 12|We’ve always been provided for 32 Keenan’s Charge. |Saved by a Ghost. Geo. P. Lathrop 12| Eben E. Rexford 33 The Legend of the Organ |Pardon Complete. Builder. Julia C. R. Dorr 13| Clara G. Dolliver 35 The Auctioneer’s Gift. |Artie’s “Amen.” S. W. Foss 15| Paul Hamilton Hayne 35 A War Episode. |Our Old Doctor 36 By Wallace P. Reed 15|Don’t Blame the World 37 The Volunteer Organist. |Humpty Dumpty. By S. W. Foss 16| Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 38 The Dandy Fifth. |Kate Shelley. Eugene J. Hall 39 Frank H. Gassaway 17|Danger or Vast Fortunes. Sure Enough. Ernest McGaffey 18| Horace Mann 40 A Dream of the Universe. |Our Two Opinions. Jean Paul Richter 19| James Whitcomb Riley 41 Petit Jean. Mary A. Barr 19|The Policeman’s Story. At the Hospital. J. P. B. 20| Geo. Birdseye 41 The Conductor’s Story. |Public Opinion. C. Farrar 42 By B. J. M‘Dermott 21|St. John the Aged 43 His Sweet heart’s Song. |A Mother’s Thoughts 45 Fred C. Dayton 22|The Singer’s Climax 46 In a Crowd. Marianne Farningham 23|Two Soldiers at Gettysburg. The Emperor’s Breakfast. | Isaac F. Eaton 47 Edwin Arnold 24|A Message from Mamma in Heaven 47 After the Curfew. |A Mother’s Answer. Oliver Wendell Holmes 24| Lillie E. Barr 48

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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 30.

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At the grave of Alice. |Our Mother’s Apron Strings. Thomas Dann English 33| W. H. McElroy 30 A doubting heart. |Penn’s Monument. A. A. Procter 21| R. J. Burdette 6 At rest. Mary A. Barr 20|Pickin’ Cinders on the Dock 6 A legend. A. A. Procter 14|Rebuked. Leslie E. Barr 38 A bit of newspaper verse 10|Sorrow. Joan Volk 46 A dead past. A. A. Procter 9|The Wine that Conquers Care. A ragged pair 7| Gen. Wm. Hains Lytle 48 Beyond. A. A. Procter 22|The Truth. Archibald Lampman 48 Barefooted after the cows. |The Poor Man’s Wife 39 Fred Emerson Brooks 16|The Old School Clock. Evarra and his gods. | John Boyle O’Reilly 42 Rudyard Kipling 35|The Engine Driver’s Story. Friar Serverus. | W. Wilkins 31 Clifford Lanier 16|The Legend of Van Bibber’s Rack. Face to face. Paul H. Hayne 11| Emma D. Banks 32 Father Flynn as peacemaker 5|The last Milestone. Grandmother 11| Josephine Pollard 29 Giving our best. W. E. B. 19|The Fellow in Greasy Jeans. Happiness 12| Charles F. Lummis 29 In the children’s hospital. |The Ships that sailed away. Lord Tennyson 40| Hester Crawford Dorsey 28 I am dying 36|The Life Brigade. Ingalls on life and death 13| Minnie Mackay 23 I often wonder why ’tis so. |The Dakine Snake. Father Ryan 8| J. Boyle O’Reilly 24 Janette’s Hair. |The Word of the King. Miles O’Reilly 28| Mary H. Krout 19 Keep your face to the light 22|The Czar and the Bridge-keeper’s Leaving the old farm. | Wife. Count Chapolsky 19 Sophie L. Schenck 27|Two Poor Old Souls. Lord Manner’s leap. | Margaret Eytinge 20 Lillie E. Barr 21|The Woman-Soul. Love and war. | Courtlandt Palmer 17 Flavel Scott Mines 15|The Secret Mourner. Mistress Sunbeam. Thomas Frost 43| James Dawson 15 Mother’s Prayer 35|Tootsie Brant. Much ado. Margaret E. Sangster 28| H. Antoine D’Arcy 9 Mad Anthony’s Charge. |The Huguenot Lovers. Alex. N. Easton 4| As Recited by Miss Jane Stuart 3 Never Again. A. A. Procter 47|The Drunkard’s Lament. Only 40| E. D. Baker 12 One Day at a Time. |What is Good. Helen Hunt Jackson 37| John Doyle O’Reilly 27 Only a Word. |Woman’s Rights 17 Adelaide A. Procter 34|Xmas Eve Ballad. Off Brenton Reef, September | Elmer Ruan Coates 30 9th, 1890. |You and I and He. Louisa Both Hendricksen 8| Elizabeth Oakes Smith 18