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

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 60781 *** CATALOGUE OF “STANDARD RECITATIONS”, Numbers 19–34 M. J. Ivers & Co., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 19. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. A Day. By John G. Whittier 7|The Cane-Bottomed Chair. A Keeper’s Story. | W. M. Thackeray 8 By Ethel Lynn 21|The Cavalry Charge. An Empty Nest. | By E. C. Stedman 5 By Mary A. Barr 30|The Missing Ship. Advice to Boys 34| By John B. Gough 9 A Tramp’s Philosophy 37|The Burial of Chatham. Macaulay 15 Cæsar Passing the Rubicon. |The Hindu King’s Reply to the By J. Sheridan Knowles 5| Missionary. Alfred C. Lyall 15 Confession of a Drunkard 6|The Country’s Greatest Evil 16 Courage, Boy, Courage! 17|The Pythian Flag up North 18 Character of Napoleon. |The Windy Night. By Lamartine 38| By Thomas B. Reed 24 Do Not Rust Out 24|To Her. By Victor Hugo 25 England. By Charles Mackay 19|The Phantom Wreck. Even This Shall Pass Away 32| Nathan D. Urner 26 En Voyage 38|The Shepherd of the People. Education. By Schuyler Colfax 47| Rev. P. Brooks 27 Fancy or Fact. |True Fame. By Jay 28 By James Russell Lowell 6|The Open Door 29 Great Lives Imperishable. |The American Indian. Edward Everett 19| By Charles Sprague 29 How Riches are to be Measured 18|The Trapper’s Last Trail. If We Knew 10| Madge Morris 31 In Scotia Dear 35|The Two Lives 32 Liberty. By Frank E. Brush 20|The Sabbath 32 Little Jim. George R. Sims 25|The World from the Sidewalk 33 Live for Good. |The Duellist’s Honor. Rev. J. J. Case 31| By Bishop England 36 Logan at Atlanta 36|Trust in God, and do the Right. Malibran and the Young Musician 12| N. McLeod 40 My Portion 39|The Miner’s Luck. J. W. Donovan 40 Napoleon the Little. Hugo 25|The Old School-house 41 Night Before the Execution. |The True Source of Reform. Mary E. Bryan 45| E. H. Chapin 42 Our Ships 8|The Cry of the Dreamer. Opposite Examples. | John B. O’Reilly 43 Horace Mann 23|The Lover’s Leap 46 On Planting the Pear-tree. |The Bartholdi Statue. By Rev. Edward Hopper, D.D. 42| By John G. Whittier 48 Resolution 34|Vanitas. Charles M. Harger 27 Success. By B. F. Taylor 7|Whiskey in its Place 11 Spike that Gun 10|Who are the Free. Saved. By Jennie Joy 44| By John C. Prince 21 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 20. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. The Idyl of Battle Hollow. |The Thank-You Prayer 27 Bret Harte 3|The True Pride of Ancestry. How Tommy Went to Sea. | Webster 28 Colonel Tom Ochiltree 4|Endurance 29 The Martyrs of Sandom’r. |The Old Man and Jim. M. Capel 6| James Whitcomb Riley 30 Pike’s Peak. Eugene Field 7|Why Are We Here. Alone. Robert J. Burdette 8| C. G. Dann 31 Ingratitude Towards the Deity. |Rural Occupations Favorable Appleton 8| to the Sentiments of Devotion. Legend of the Crossing | Buckminster 31 Sweeper 9|The Moonshiner’s Daughter. Sergeant Jasper at Fort | M. B. 32 Moultrie. |The Baby’s Prayer. Louise Imogen Guiney 10| Mrs. E. E. Williamson 34 The Reveille 11|How He Got Rich 34 The Stoning of the Magdalen. |The Midnight Tryst. F. E. Pratt 11| Mary E. Bryan 35 State’s Evidence. |The Four-Leaved Clover. Margaret Cavendish 13| A Decoration Day Mother’s Slipper 13| Reminiscence 37 The Cradle Rocked. |What is Religion? H. S. Keller 14| Bishop Heber 38 The Old Class Room 15|All Light There. In the Dakota Blizzard. | Mrs. M. L. Rayne 38 John Paul Bocock 16|On the Field of Gettysburg. Langsyne. D. M. Moir 17| Ena Walton 39 Mrs. Grundy 18|In the Name of God, the Merciful, The Baby and the Soldier 19| the Compassionate! 39 “Clear the Way.” |Influence of Christianity in Camilla Crosland 20| Elevating the Female Character. Wolfe Tone aboard the Hoche. | J. G. Carter 40 David G. Adee 21|Would We Return? My Old Vag. M. Quad 21| Robert Burns Wilson 41 Nobody Knows but Father. |The Rose. Mrs. Sigourney 42 H. C. Dodge 23|Death 43 The Brave at Home. |My Henry. James W. Riley 43 T. Buchanan Read 23|The Lock of Hair. Drunk in the Street 24| Thomas Dunn English 44 Posthumous Influence of the |Vita Nova 44 Wise and Good. Norton 24|Description of a Death Scene. “Me and Bob and Jim.” | Miss Francis 45 Ada Stewart Shelton 25|St. Brigid 47 The Angelus 26|“To Many of We.” 47 A Regular Bad ’Un. |Decoration Day. Frederick Langbridge 26| Minnie Irving 48 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 21. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. Half-Way Doin’s. Irwin Russell 3|Mme. Eef 27 The Lady or the Tiger. |The Lightning-Rod Dispenser. Mayor Joseph Kirkland in | Will Carleton 28 The Century 5|Why Women Marry 30 Confidential 6|A Pathetic Old Man 31 St. Jonathan 6|The Druggist’s Vengeance 32 Shinbones Becomes an Umpire. |The Emancipation of Man 33 W. J. Henderson 7|The Wickedest Man in Memphis. Uncle Ike’s Roosters. Aaron | Alex. J. Brown 34 W. Fredericks 8|The Knights of the Road 35 How “Old Mose” Counted |Heinz Von Stein. Eggs 9| Charles G. Leland 35 Trouble in the Choir. |Chairley Burke’s in Town. A. T. Worden 10| James Whitcomb Riley 36 Who Makes the Soil 12|The Wife’s Strategy 36 That Gentleman from Boston Town. |Precepts at Parting. Joaquin Miller 13| Irwin Russell 37 A Change of Views. W. Carey 14|Advice to a Young Man. The Story of Elizur. F. A. S. 15| R. J. Burdette 38 Robin Hood and the Abbot. |The Chap that’s Been over John Brook 16| to Lunnon 38 Two Boot Blacks 17|Noodleberry as a Neighbor. A Reminiscence 18| W. H. Ellis 39 Uncle Cuff “Rises Fur Ter |How We Tried to Whip The ’Splain.” | Teacher. Eugene J. Hall 40 William Longfellow Haynie 18|Der Sphider und der Fly. The Canine Question. | Charles Follen Adams 41 Alex. Sweet 19|Katrina’s Visit to New York. The Setting Sachem 20| Alex. T. Brown 42 Asking the Gov’nor 21|The Turkish Bath. The April Face. Thomas | By A Young Woman 43 Nelson Page 22|Our Boarding-House Thanksgiving 44 Guilty, Of Course. G. Waldo 23|Managing a Mule. The Mosquito 24| Irwin Russell 45 Ode to the Full Moon. |Der Oak und der Vine. Allen Kelly 24| Charles Follen Adams 45 The Ballad of Hiram Hover 25|The Skeleton’s Confession. A Negro’s Account of the | E. S. V. Z. 46 Prodigal Son 26|How She Won Him 47 Don’t Shpoil Dot Leedle Fun. |The Champion. Emile Pickhardt 27| Edward P. Jackson 48 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 22. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. Shamus O’Brien, The Bold Boy of |“Peace, Be Still.” Violet 27 Glingall. Samuel Lover 3|A Short Debate on Rum. The Soldier’s Reward. | “Th’ Poet o’ Ante-Bar.” 28 J. W. Donovan 7|The Participants in the Boston The Kitten of the Regiment 9| Massacre. John Hancock 28 Perils of a Teacher. |Dandie. M. F. Bradley 29 J. W. Donovan 10|The Nameless Guest. A Climb at Rouen. | James Clarence Harvey 30 M. Betham Edwards 11|Slug Number Eleven 30 Catching the Colt 12|A Famous fight. Something for Strikers 13| David Graham Adee 32 Harmony 13|More Cruel Than War 33 By the Wayside. E. Doherty 14|The Fall of the Alamo. The Unwelcomed Baby 15| Mrs. Barr 34 Running Before It. |A New Gospel. William Constable 16| Carlotta Perry 35 “Warned.” Crape Myrtle 17|Making the Round. The Old Wife’s Kiss 17| Mrs. M. L. Rayne 36 The Old Office-Desk. |The Beautiful 37 Henry J. Shellman 19| Onatoga’s Sacrifice. Chickens Come Home to Roost. | John Dimitry 38 Ernest M‘Gaffey 19|Joe Sieg. Alexander Anderson 39 The Blacksmith of Ragenbach 20|Education. C. Phillips 41 The Old Mill. H. W. Field 21|Ingratitude; Or, Old Sport and One at a Time 22| His Master. Fred Williams 41 The Hot Axle. |Old Uncle Jake 43 T. De Witt Talmage 22|On the Rappahannock 44 Ellsworth’s Avengers. Tripp 23|The Better Land 45 The Origin of Whiskey. |Charity 45 H. Burgess 24|St. Michael, the Weigher 46 The Two Words. J. E. Dinkenga 25|The Orphan’s New Year. Listeners. M. K. D. 25| O. H. 46 The Delinquent Subscriber. |The Inch Cape Bell 47 Margaret Andrews Oldham 26|The Old Minstrel 47 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 23. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. If I Should Die To-night 3|The Unknown Hero 27 The American Union. |The Life-Boat 28 Daniel Webster 4|Milton’s Last Poem 28 Abon Ben Adhem. |How to Enliven Your Days—Work Leigh Hunt 4| With a Will 28 A Child’s Cry 4|The Soldier’s Pardon. The Shamrock. | James Smith 29 Anna B. Reardon 5|True Bravery—A Thrilling The Face Against the Pane. | Sketch 30 T. B. Aldrich 6|The Last Broadside. Do Your Part. J. W. Donovan 7| Elizabeth T. P. Beach 31 The Reign of Terror. |The Faithful Friend 32 Thomas Carlyle 8|His Last Run 33 Life is so Long 8|The Ship on Fire. C. McKay 33 Storming the Temple of Mexico. |The Care of God 34 William H. Prescott 9|My Ship at Sea. Giant and Dwarf 9| Thomas Dunn English 35 The Religious Card Player 10|The Sailor’s Mother. Conscience at Death 11| W. Wordsworth 35 The Sicilian Vespers 12|Independence Bell 36 The Curse of Regulus 12|The Unknown Future. Death Makes All Men Brothers. | Mary Kyle Dallas 37 Louise S. Upham 13|Creating Criminals. A Vision Rendered Into | Charles Dudley Warner 38 Poetry 15|Martin’s Puzzle. At the Shaft’s Mouth. | George Meredith 38 R. E. White 16|The Ladder of St. Augustine. In the Tunnel 17| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 40 The Peaceful Life. |The Step-mother. Marianne Farningham 19| Nathan D. Urner 41 The Story of a Stowaway! |Success. C. M. Harger 42 Clement Scott 20|The Good Woman. I. B. Mean 42 Loss of The Arctic. |All’s for the Best. H. W. Beecher 21| M. F. Tupper 43 The Emigrants. Charles McKay 22|The Right Road. The Tramp. J. J. R. 23| Ella Wheeler Wilcox 43 The Nail Maker 23|None Will Miss Thee 44 The Last of the Druids. |Little Orphant Annie. James Jeffrey Roche 24| James Whitcomb Riley 44 Personalities and Ill Reports. |Difference Between Taste and Dr. John Hall 24| Genius. By Blair 45 The Sailor’s Song. |Strength for To-Day 46 B. W. Proctor 25|Washington. Eliza Cook 46 Nail the Colors to the Mast. |Found Drowned 47 Alfred H. Miles 25|The Rosary 48 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 24. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. Concepcion De Arguello. |Speech of Shrewsbury before Bret Harte 3| Queen Elizabeth. Schiller 26 Eulogium on South Carolina. |And then? Robert Y. Hayne 5| James Jeffrey Roche 28 The Brewing of Soma. |The Tell Tale Heart. John G. Whittier 6| Edgar Allen Poe 28 The Wee, Wee Bairnie 7|The Convict’s Hopeless Lot. Destiny. T. B. Aldrich 8| An Ex-convict 30 Without Me 8|The Star of Bethlehem. South Carolina and Massachusetts. | Henry Kirke White 31 Daniel Webster 9|Success in Life. Burglar Bill 10| James A. Garfield 31 What My Lover Said. |The Hindoo’s Search for Homer Greene 11| Truth 32 The Curse to Labor. |The Spiritualist. L. W. 33 T. V. Powderly 12|Last Charge of Ney. The New Hail Columbia. | J. T. Headley 35 Oliver Wendell Holmes 13|The Song of the Headlight. Reuben James. | Hardy Jackson 36 James Jeffrey Roche 13|One of the Signers. Reply to Mr. Webster. | John Greenleaf Whittier 37 Robert Y. Hayne 14|Apparitions. Thomas Carlyle 38 Vas Marriage a Failure? |Farewell to Nature. Charles Follen Adams 15| Thomas Gordon Hake 39 The Soul’s Farewell to the |Jim. Body. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 16| James Whitcomb Riley 40 A Woman’s Heart 16|Grant’s Strategy. The Minstrel’s Curse. | Judge Veazey 41 Ludwig Uhland 17|Just for To-day 42 Visions of Joan of Arc and |A Hero of the Tropics. Bishop of Beauvais. | I. Edgar Jones 42 De Quincey 18|Priests unto God. The Old Cornet Player. | Rose Terry Cooke 43 J. P. Bocock 20|The Mayflower. Speech of Icilius to the | Edward Everett 44 Romans. Alfieri 21|The Veiled Statue at Sais. The Watch of Boon Island. | Friedrich Schiller 45 Mrs. Celia Thaxter 21|Death of Hamilton. Rejoinder to Mr. Hayne. | Eliphalet Nott 46 Daniel Webster 23|The Soldier’s Return. To Ireland. J. B. Killen 24| Susanna Blamire 47 Christ Not a Christian. A. D. 25|Vicissitudes of 1849. The Forging of the Anchor. | Horace Greeley 47 S. Ferguson 26|Washington. Phillips 48 The selections from Bret Harte, Whittier, Aldrich and Mrs. Celia Thaxter are used by kind permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 25. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. 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 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 26. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. The Sacrifice of Abraham. |The Lady of the Rock. N. P. 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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| M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 27. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. 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. 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The Dome of the Republic. | Robert Louis Stevenson 47 Anonymous 28|Ostler Joe. Geo. R. Sims 48 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 28. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. 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. 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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 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 29. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. 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 M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 30. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. 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. 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STANDARD RECITATIONS. CONTENTS OF No. 34. Price, 12 cents by mail; 1 and 2 cent stamps taken. Abd’s Lesson. |Lost Nelly 9 Thos. Dunn English 29|Magdalen, The. Aquæon Bibamus. | Kate Saxon 7 J. E. Rankin D.D. 40|Modjesky as Cameel. As you go through Life. | Eugene Field 35 Ella W. Wilcox 19|Moray and his Thirty 39 At Bay. Oscar Fay Adams 26|Mother’s Vigil, The. Belle of the Miners’ Ball, | Hugh Conway 37 The 47|Nathan Hale. Bertram’s Vigil. Emma | Eugene Geary 3 Alice Browne 7|Never too Late. Betrothed, The. | Josephine Pollard 33 Rudyard Kipling 46|Only a Brakesman killed 8 Benediction, The 15|Only a Woman. Betrayed 13| Dinah Maria Mulock 5 Betsy and I are out 43|Our Traveled Parson. Between the Lights. The | Will Carleton 10 Widow’s Story. |Over the Crossin’ 27 Emma Alice Browne 85|Raising the Evil One. Bright Hours. | Ingoldsby 34 Margaret Husted 48|Robert of Lincoln. Czar and the Scout, The. | Wm. Cullen Bryant 21 Lillie E. Barr 24|Scout, The. 1864 38 Don’t be in a Hurry 26|Sailor’s Wife, The. Downhearted 41| Nathan D. Urner 17 Dying Alchemist, The. |Selling the Baby. N. P. Willis 18| Ada Carleton 13 Ghosts of the Manor, The. |Seventeenth Century Story, A 12 Minnie Irving 14|She was a Phantom of Delight. Great Love and I. | Wadsworth 24 Francis Hodgson Burnett 30|Single for Life 28 Grey Knight, The. |Song of Steam, The 37 Thomas Dunn English 4|Sotto Voce 20 Guild’s Signal. Bret Harte 45|Stowaway, The. Matthison 42 Her Chair.—A History. |Tale of the Black Hills, A. Francis Bennoch 21| Michael Lynch 22 Hope—Life—Man. |Tired Mother, The 41 Thos. Carlyle 41|To my Mother. Humanity. H. S. Keller 35| Heinrich Heine 31 In Honor Bound. |Under the Purple and Motley. Nathan D. Urner 32| Robt. J. Burdette 20 Jolly Robyn Roughhead 38|When the Circus cum to town. Last, shall be First, The. | James A. Parks 31 Walter W. Skeat 47|Wock of Bages. Legend of the Belis, The. | Hans Gobel 29 Minnie Adele Hausen 33| M. J. IVERS & CO., 379 Pearl Street, New York. Transcriber’s Note This catalogue was originally bound into the back of Ivers’ 1887 edition of _Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies_, by Luther S. Cushing [EBook #60757 at Project Gutenberg]. End of Project Gutenberg's Catalogue of "Standard Recitations", by Anonymous *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 60781 ***