Benjamin Franklin -- Defence of a great man -- Sir Walter Scott and his mother -- Abigail Adams -- Two neighbors -- Horace Greeley -- Wendell Phillips -- Mary Wordsworth -- Madame Malibran -- Garfield maxims -- What I carried to college -- Sir John Franklin -- Elizabeth Estaugh -- "Chinese" Gordon -- Men's wives -- Women's husbands -- John Ploughman -- Caroline Lucretia Herschel -- Pestiferous literature -- Satisfied -- Heroes of science -- My Uncle Toby -- Stephen Girard -- Disappointments -- The three kings -- Florence Nightingale -- Shy people -- John Marshall -- A noble mother -- The care of the body -- Saint Cecilia -- Thomas De Quincey -- A vision of time -- John Bunyan -- Madame Roland -- Cheerful and brave -- Harold -- Peter Cooper -- Illusions -- Phillips Brooks -- St. John and the robber -- John Ploughman again -- Henry Wilson -- Joan of Arc -- The song of work -- Alvan S. Southworth -- A forbidden topic -- Ida Lewis Wilson -- Rachel Jackson -- Discontented girls -- The voice in Ramah -- La Fayette -- Lydia Sigourney -- Old age and usefulness -- Rhymes and chimes.

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