xxvi. 41 xxvii. 28 ....... xxvii. 21 Minister's Grievances, The................................................................................................. Napoleon's Overthrow........................................... Victor Hugo. XXV. 51 New Declaration of Independence, A.................Clinton B. Fisk. xxviii. 150 Praying For Papa. XXV. 30 Poetry of Science, The xxvi. 124 Paddy's Courtin'............................................................................... W. A. Eaton. Story which the Ledger told, The...................... Luella D. Smith. Slim Teacher of Cranberry Gulch, The.......................................................... Swallowed Frog, The.......... Three Parsons, The.. There'll be Room in Heaven....... Then and Now...... Three Cherry-Stones, The.. Turning the Points... That Fire at the Nolans' ............Robert Overton. XXV. 40 Unfinished Manuscript, The............ What a Thirty-ton Hammer can Do............ Word for Cranks, A..... xxvi. 137 What Men have not Fought For..............R. J. Burdette. xxvii. 103 100 CHOICE SELECTIONS. No. 25. THIS OLD WORLD OF OURS.-GEORGE W. BUNGAY. This is a wise old world of ours; It's endowed with wonderful powers Of judgment, feeling, perception, thought. The trick in its scales will be caught. This is a beautiful world of ours! Its frescoed skies; its meadows and flowers; Its valleys that rest in peaceful calm. This is a critical world of ours; Few are its compliments; icy cold |