LB 1576 Jk -m ■ 1 LB l& 7C P J-V LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. ©|ap iojnjrtgp Ifu.. '.'. Shelf.l3\'o r l^ -D^g UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ♦^SsiSMsl 001 ■ essay ► subjects lOOl ssay Subjects. r-ofip. J. E.DEAN. v -„. COMPILED BY '*St, DEAN & PARKER, PUBLISHERS. Waeben Peirce, Printer and Stationer, Ciarrettsville, Ohio. Copy right, 1890. By Dean & Parker. ESSAY SUBJECTS Political and Social. 1 What America Has Done for Woman. 2 Convict Labor Question. 3 John Howard nod his Work. 4. ''Hanging by Electricity." . r >. The Modern Newspaper. 6. Causes and Results of Crowding into Cities. 7. The Danger of Standing Armies. 8. An International Parliament. 9. The Business Man of 1925. 10. The American Tariff. 11. Why is a Common Man now Better than a King Two Hundred Years Ago? 12. Why is Europe Strengthening her 13. Civilization by Rail. | Armaments? 14. Purpose and Effect of Dicken's Works. 15. The Y. M. C. A. 10. Y. W. C. A. 17. Tendency to Banish everything Religious unless it is in a Church. IS. Prohibition and General Morality. 19. The Golden Rule. 20. Should we Increase our Army? 21. Different Means of Temperance Reform. 22. The Patent Office. 23. The Metric System. 24. Our Barbaric Aristocracy. 25. The Dead Letter Office. 26. The Seal Fisheries. 27. Our Cities in the Hot Season. 28. U. S.j British, Russian, etc. Armies. 29. Government Debts. 30. The Silver Question. 31. The Christian Endeavor Movement. 32. Signal Service. 33. Life Saving Stations of our Coasts. 34. Effect of the Ohio "Dow Law." 35. High and Low License. 36. Government Control of Railways. 37. Taxing Church Property. 38. Extradition. 39. Woman Suffrage. 40 One Cent Letter Postage. 41. Eight Hour Labor Movement. 42. Is the World Going to Rack and Ruin? 43. Divorce Question. 44. Qualifications for Voting. 45. Why do "Roughs" Control Politics in Some 46. The Slavery of Today. [Sections? 47. The Recent War in Hayti. 48. Indian Reservations. 49. Are we Wronging the Indian? 50. Gerrymandering. 51. Western Booms. 52. The Chinese Question. 53. Should Woman also Have the Right to 54. Contract Labor. [Propose? 55. Australian Ballot and Ballot Reform. 56. Catholics and Public Schools. 57. What has Woman Done to Elevate the Iln- 58. The English Syndicate. [man Race? 5 59. Fractional Currencj*. 60. Evils of the Jury System. 61. Use and Abuse of Labor Unions. 62. Trusts. 63. Great Commercial Bubbles. 64. Police System. 65. Detectives. 66. Jews of the United States. 67. Keeping Step. 68. Jews of Russia. 69. Russian Exile System. 70. United States Citizenship. 71. Did the Negroes Lose by Coming to America? 72. American Invention and Civilization. 73. Pauperism. 74. Presidential Elections. 75. The U. S. Debt. 76. Office Seekers. 77. State Sovereignty. 78. United States Coinage. 79. Political Parties of the U. S. 80. National Banking Law. 81. Why Are City Taxes High. I 82. U. S. Foreign Ministers. 83. Boodlers. 84. Women's Professions. 85. Working Children. 86. Southern Schools. 87. Survival of the Fittest or the Toughest? 88. The Immigrant's Answer. SI). Civil Service Reform. IK). Has the U. S. Reached the Zenith of Her 91. Dueling. [Glory? 02. Competition. Schools and Education. 93. Rise of the District School, h' 94. District School Teaching . 95. Recollections of District School. 96. School Government. 97. Teaching Drawing in Schools. 98. Should the District Schools be Merged into 99. Ohio Schools. [Central Township Schools? 100. School Laws. 101. How to Teach History. 102. Defacing of School Furniture. 103. How to Study. 104. School Friendships. 105. Use of Bad Grammar. 106. Careless Writers. 107. Examination Day. K)8. Coeducation and its Results. 109 r ,A College "Grub Club." 110. College Fraternities. 111. College Roommates. 112. College Scrapes. 113. A College Janitor. 114. College Gymansium. 115. College Life. 116. College Class Rivalry. 117. College Literary Work. 118. College Oratorical Contests. 119. College Y. M. C. A. 120. College Papers. 121. College Towns. Vll. College Ministerial Courses. 123. College Lectures. 124. College Morals. 125. How Can the Student Become Cultured? I2d. Colloquial Latin. 127. Our Western Colleges. 128, Our Eastern Colleges. ISO. Oxford. 30. German Universities. 31. Trials of a Freshman. 32. Use of "Ponies" in Studying the Classics. 33. Studying Late at Night. ;U. A Female Seminary. 35. Parliamentary Rules. 36. Value of Biographical Stud}\ 37. Spencer the Penman. 38. The German School System. 39. History of English Spelling. 40. Effect of Education on Individuality. 41. Social Part of a Man's Training. 42. A Naval School. 43. A Military School. 44. Value of Taking Notes on a Lecture. .45. Learning a Trade. Philosophy and Faney. 146. Home and its Queen. L47. Might and Wit, 148. Honest Honesty. 149. Scandal. 150. Clean Hands. 131. "He is a Good Fellow." 152. Bricks Without Straw. 153. Moths in the Candle. 154. The Function of Amusement. 155. The Motherinlaw, Stepmother, etc. 156. Collecting Money. 157. How to Command the Ears of an Audience, 158. Stumps, Patches, Brickbats. 159. Principle. 160. The Musket as a Civilizer. 161. The Crow's Nest. 162. Retreating of the Waves. 163. Fashion. 8 164. Rise of the Collar. 165. Noses. 1G6. Enjoyment. 167. Judging Persons By Their Faces. 168. Appearances. 169. Dreams. 170. Ambition. 171. Originalit}'. 172. Hobbies. 17; 5. Being a Boy. 174. What Would I Do if I Were a Girl? 175. The Art of Writing a Letter. 176. Shooting a Beau Gracefully. 177. How to be Entertaining. 178. A Tease. 179. Odd Minutes. 180. Bashfulness. 181. Honest Innocence. 182. Slang. 183. Curious Yankee Phrases. f. 184. Maxims. 185. The Beaut v of Modest v. 181 How I Would Tease a" Cat. 187. Fags. 188. Haste. 189. Taste. 190. Ingenuity. 191. Man's Sense of the Ridiculous. 192. The Mania for Bric-a-brac. 19 5. Value of the Ideal. 19k The Sword Before Peace. 19'). Knack of Pronouncing Words. 196. Drudgery. 107. Lessons Learned on a Farm. 198. Good Resolutions. 19). Old Age. 200. The Happiest Time of Life. 201. Value of Kicks and Cuffs. 202. The "Flirt." 203. Thistles and Thorns. 204. Practical Jokes. 205. Value of Table Chat. 2C6. A Chat with Adam. 207. Who Was Cain's Wife? 208. Asking Questions. 209. Man's Desire to be Someone Else. 210. A Joke in the Wrong Place. 211. How to Entertain a Child. 212. Love of Children. 213. Value of Homeliness. 214. Number Thirteen in a Family. 215. Essay Writing, 21G. Plow to be Happy. 217. Tyranny of the Present. 218. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks. 211). A Connecticut Yankee in Eden. 220. How Far Should Policy Enter into a Man's 221. Mission of an Organ-grinder. [Life? 222. Git and Grit. 223. r \ he Yankee's Apparent Irreverence. 224. Late to Bed and Late to Rise. 225. Fun and Recreation. 22(3. The Bookworm. 227. Pursuit and Possession. ■ 22S. Individuality. % 220. Killing Time or Eternity? 230. Taking the Back Seat. 281. Mountains from Molehills. 232. The Funnv Sayings of our Newspapers. 2:\:\ A Girl's Trials. 2.34. Neatness and Order. The Noisy Boy and the Quiet Boy. 2 ;5. 2-",C>. Shadows. »7. Thoughtful ness. IS. Value of Self Confidence. I'oJ. Handsome Men. 10 240. Would you Rather be Blind or Deaf? 241. Special Rates of Merchants, R. Roads, etc. 242. Simon says, "Thumbs Up." 243. Nicknames. 244. The Prejudice of Custom. 245. Tomboys. 24G. Literary Dyspeptics. 247. Value of Being Tired of a Thing. 248. Ought we Wish to be Young Again? 249. Making the Boys Glad to Stay at Home 250. Reverence. [Evenings. 251. Nature vs. Art. 252. Rivalry. 253. Splitting Hairs. 254. A Practical Man. 255. Kicking. 256. Behind the Scenes. 257. A Boy's Life from 15 to 20. 258. Various Sizes of Men. 259. The Instinct to Climb. 260. A Diary. 261. Some Evils of Being Smart. 262. The Big "Little Boy'' and the Little "Big 263. Memories of Childhood. [Boy." 2f>4. The Boy's Desire to Imitate the Man. 265. Odd Ideas the Children Have. 'im. What Place in the World Would I Like to 267. Mind in Nature. [Visit? 268. When Does the Twentieth Century Com- 269. Songs Sung at Home. [mence? 270. Usefulness Around Home. 27 i. Superstition. . '272. Titles of Address. ? 273. Feast and Grunt. 274. Coal in Civilization, 275. How to say No. ■27(y. Politeness, 1277. Genuineness, 11 Attention. The Misfortune of Being Comical. Character Building. Are Broken Resolutions Better Than No My Sister. [Resolutions? Business Habits. The Emotions. My Poet. Broad Minds. Mottoes. How to Estimate Life. Take Care of Yourself and Live. Observation. Discontent. Blase'. Know When to Stop. Supreme Things. . Punctuality. ni h*>. Memorizing Scripture. U ( J7. Parasites. Geientifie, Etc. Kings of the Air. Use of the House Fly. Gems. Neighbors in Feathers. La ( Jrippe. Uses of Soot. Cabinet Woods. Squirrels. Poultry. Eyes. A Thunderstorm. Watches and Clocks. A Nail, Goblet, Pane of Glass, Rolling Mill, Collecting Birds' Eggs, [etc. Taxidermy, 12 313. Destruction of Birds by Milliners. 314. Coin and Postage Stamp Collecting. 315. Lead Pencils. 316. Use of the Bow. 317. Candy. 318. Writing Materials. 319. Bugs. 320. Insects Injurious to Fruits. 321. Use and Abuse of the Mosquito. 322. Telegraphy. 323. Agassiz's Work. 324. John James Audubon. 325. Humped Backs. 32G. Nervousness. 327. Use of Tobacco. 328. Some Evils of Electricity. 329. Ventilation of Public Buildings. 330. A Musical Ear. 331. Amateur Painters. 332. Sunshiny Houses. 333. Oleomargarine. 334. Should the Sparrows be Destroyed? 335. The Gyroscope. 336. Improvement in Scientific Apparatus. 337. House-plants. 338. The Phonograph. 339. Effect of the Gulf Stream. 340. Icebergs, Pebbles, Moss, etc. 341. Natural Gas. 342. Petroleum. 343. Salt Meats. 344. Why is England so Warm? 345. Whence Did the Indian Come? 346. The Sound of Wilford Hall. 347. The Buckeye Tree. 348. Fifty Years of Improvement in Farm Imple- 349. Northern Birds. [ments. 350. The Atmosphere. 13 351. Opium. 352. Destruclivcness of Open Winters. 353. Hot Springs. 354. Horse Troughs. 355. Clouds. 356. Parasites. 357. Air Navigation. 008. Michigan Copper. 359. Lake Superior Iron. 360. Cyclones. 361. Colds. miscellaneous. 362. Experience of a Book Agent. 363. Resurrection of Ramescs II, 364. The Coliseum. 365. Explorations in Egypt. 3C6. Dr. Sehlieman and Troy, 367. A Yankee Tinker. 368. Tramps, Ragmen, Peddlers, etc. 369. The Melon Patch. 370. The Jackknife. 371. Logging. 372. The Bucksaw. o73. A Day in a Hospital. 374. Advertisements. 375. Almanacs. 376. California Canning Industry. 377. John Chinaman as a Railway Builder. 378. A City Mailboy. 379. Berry Picking. 380. Waiting in a Depot. 381. Duck Hunting. 382. (lame Birds. 383. Fishing, Trout, Salmon, etc. 384. Chestnutting. 385. Stilts. 14 386. Marble Playing. 387. The Butcher, Baker, Milkman, etc. 388. Odd Faces. 389. Bonnets. 390. Crown Jewels. * 391. A Summer at Chautauqua. 392. Camping Out. 393. Oddities in Men's Build. 394. Bookbinding. 395. The Saw and Hammer. £98. Boarding Houses. 397. A Maple Sugar Camp. 398. African Explorations. 399. Will Great Britain Dissolve at Victoria's 400. Southern Darkies. [Death. 401. Growth of Art in America. 402. A Western Ranch. 403. Adornment of Rooms. 404. Ways of Wearing Hair. [, 405. Training a Horse. , ( 406. Trapping Small Game. 407. Picture Framing. 408. The World's Greatest Monument. 409. A Hundred Miles in a Railway Car. 410. Experience of a Brakeman. 411. Working Out. 412. Boarding Oneself. 413. "Boarding Around." 414. Sporting Men. 415. Horse Racing. 416. Horseback Riding. 417. Juvenile Criminals. 418. A Bicycle. 419. A Trip Through Yellowstone Park. 420. Yosemite, Niagara, etc. 421. The Sandwich Islanders. 422. An Ideal Yankee. 423. Mv Birth Place. 15 424. A Summer on a Farm. 425. Women of Nerve. 426. Specialists. 427. The Jack-of-all-Trades. 428. The Undertaker, Auctioneer, etc. 420. Church Organs. 430. Singing School. 431. How to Train a Dog. 432. Dogs of History. 433. War Horses. 434. A Boy's Ideal Fourth of July. 435. The Yankee Abroad Nowadays. 436. The Panama Canal. 437. A Graveyard. 438. Coal, Iron, Gold, etc. Mines. 439. Grist, Cider, Saw, etc. Mills. 440. Difference between a South r ler and a 441. Florida "Crackers." [Northerner. 442. The Negro "Cheek 1 ' 443. Fences. 444. Valentines. 445. An Old Fashioned House. 446. The Chair. 447. The Old Fashioned Preacher. 448. Prescott, the Blind Historian. 449. Green, the Sick Historian. 450. Reading Rooms. 451. The Laundry Industry. 452. A Night Tramp in the Woods. 453. Character of the Frenchman, Dutchman, 454. Bootblacks. [Irishman, etc. 455. The Toothache. 456. An Autumn Landscape. 457. Indian Summer. 458. Historical Novels. 459. Different Ways of Laughing, Sneezing, etc. 460. The Kitchen Garden. 461. Jenny Lind. > 1G 462. Famous Singers. 463. Putty and Paint, Bricklaying, etc. 461. Paper. 46-"). Running a Threshing Machine. 466. Pawn Shops. 467. Chimneys and Smokestacks. 468. A Good Farmer. 469. Excursions for City Bootblacks, etc. 470. The Holidays. 471. How to Keep Cool in Summer. 472. How Different Peoples Keep Warm. 473. How to Make a Pair of Shoes Last. 474. Minstrel Shows. 475. Show Bills. 476. Swiss Cheese. 477. Pyramids. 478. Swiss Lakes. 479. The Grand Canon of the Colorado. 480. Various Kinds of Scavengers. 481. Mont Blanc. 482. Noah Webster. 483. April Fools' Day, May Day, etc. 481. A Dutch and a Yankee Farmer. 485. Nunneries. 486. Pigs in the Streets of Southern Cities 487. Turning Cattle into the Road. 488. Thoreau. 489. Babies. 490. Gypsies. 491. Hencoops. 492. London as a Book Mart. 493. Advertisement Frauds. 494. Good Housekeepers. 495. Hired Girls. 496. Lake Champlain. 497. Little Conveniences. 493. Funerals. 499. Counterfeiting. 17 500. Clerking in a Store. 501. Chewing Gum. 502. My Flower Bed. 503. Children's Toys. 504. Danville. 505. A Railroad Engineer. 506. A Steamboat Pilot. 507. A Model Editor. 508. An Old Fashioned Tavern. 509- Rubber Goods. 510. Street Railways. 511. Chinese Religion. 512. Chinese Ingenuity. 513. Don Quixote. 514. Watering Places. fiistopy. ENGLISH HISTORY. 515. Britain Before the Roman Period. 516. England's Insular Form, Its Value. 517. Roman Britain. 518. History of London. 519. The Druids. 520. Beginnings of Christianity in Britain. 521. Britain After the Departure of the Romans. 522. Coming of the Saxons. 523. Traditions of King Arthur. 524. English Kingdoms. 525. Alfred the Great. 526. Danish Depredations. 527. S. Dunstan and the Boy Kings. 528. Beda. 529. Danish Kings of England. 530. Harold, the Last of the Saxons. 531. England's Government Under the Saxons. 532. Condition of the People Under the Saxons. 533. Earl Godwin. 18 534. William the Conquerer. 535. Bayeaux Tapestry. 536. How England Gained Her Freedom by Being 537. The New Forest. [Conquered. 538. A Review : Kingsley's "Hereward." 539. Struggle Between the Kings and the Barons. 540. The Robber Barons of Stephen's Reign. 541. The Plantagenets. 542. Henry II. and Thomas Becket. 543. Conquest of Ireland. 544. English Military Service. 545. Richard I. and the Rise of the Free Towns. 546. King John and the Magna Charta. 547. The Great Charter and Its Successors. 548. Simon de Montfort. 549. Growth of English Parliament. 550. Sir William Wallace. 551. Review of "Scottish Chiefs." 552. The Jews in England. 553. Westminster. 554. Famous Marriages of English Sovereigns. 055. Alliance of Scotland and France. 556. Edward II. and His Favorites. 557. The "Woolsack." 558. The Hundred Years War. 559. Early History of Gunpowder. 560. The Black Death and Its Results. 561. Wat Tyler. 562. Chaucer. 563. Wycliffe. 564. The English Bible. 565. The Land Laws of England. 566. English Weapons. 567. Founding of Oxford. 568. Early English Trade Unions. 569. English Dress in Time of Richard II. 570. Wars of the Roses. 571. Introduction of Printing. 11) 572. King vs. Parliament, 573. English Cathedral Architecture. 574. The English Feeling of Nationality. 575. The Star Chamber. 57G. The Cabots. 577. Literature During Henry VIII. 's Reign. 578. Field of the Cloth of Gold. 579. Henry VIII.'s Wives. 580. Cardinal Woisey. 581. Destruction of English Monasteries. 582. Hdw Henry VIII. Split the Church. 583. Bloody Mary. 581. Queen Elizabeth's Private Life. 585. Queen Elizabeth's Marriage. 586. Elizabeth and the Catholics. 587. Mary, Queen of Scots. 588. Spanish Armada. 589. Elizabethan Literature. 590. People of Elizabeth's Time. 591. England's Policy Toward American Explor- 592. Lord Bacon. [ation and Colonization. 593. The Gunpowder Plot. 594. English and Scotch Colonies in Ireland. 595. Sir Walter Raleigh. 596. The Scottish Church. 597. The Irish Church. 598. The English Church. 599. The Long Parliament. 600. Charles II. 601. Cromwell. 602. John Bunyan. 603. The Money Schemes of English Kings. 604. Titus Oates. 605. The Royal Society (Scientific). 606. Monmouth's Rebellion. 607. Last Gasp of Romanism in Britain. 60S. The Revolution of 1688, 609. The Jacobites. 20 010. England's Debt. <'>l 1. Queen Anne. 612. Duke of Maill)orougli. (H.*5. Literature of Queen Anne's Reign. ol4. People, Queen Anne's Time. (H.*). English Commerce. 61(>. George I. and the English Cabinet. 617. Robert Walpole. 618. The War of Jenkins' Ear. 019. George II. and the War of the Austrian Sue- 620. Clive and British India. [cession. 621. The beven Years War. 622. George III. 623. Political Parties of George's Reign. 624. Recognition of American Independence by 625. Warren Hastings. [England. 626. Feeling of the English People Toward Amer- 627. Slave Trade in England. [lea. 628. War of of 1812 from the British Side. 629. Trafalgar. 630. Waterloo. 631. Wellington. 632. How England Has Profited from Bad Rule. 633. Catholic Emancipation. 634. Queen Victoria. 635. Relation Between the Houses of Parliament. 636. The Duties of an English Sovereign. (437. Modern Peers of England. 638. The Irish Famine. 639. War in Crimea. 640. Rebellion in India. 641. The Opium War. 642. The Attitude of England During Our Civil 643. Admission of Jews to Parliament. [War. 644. Irish Landlords. 615. Home Rule in Ireland. 646. England as a Colonizer. 647. Nicknames of English Sovereigns. 648. Geography of England. 21 AMERICAN HISTORY. 049. Prehistoric America, 650. Columbus. 651. English, Spanish, etc. Explorers. G52. The Puritans. 653. Struggle Between the Catholics and Huguc- 651. John Smith. [nots in Florida. 655. Rise of the English Colonies. 056. Colonial Land Companies. 657. Indians of the Atlantic Coast. 658. Colonial Charters. 059. Colonial Schools. 660. Colonial Religion. 661. Slavery in New England. 562. Colonial Literature. 663. The Quakers. 664. The Witchcraft Delusion. 605. Rhode Island. 666. Colonial Unions. 067. Dutch America. 668. New Sweden. 009. Oglethorpe and Georgia. 670. England's Policy Toward Her Colonies. 671. Samuel de Champlain. 072. Jesuits in America. 073. Fort du Quesne. 074. True Meaning of the French and Indian War. 075. Colonial Soldiers. 076. Expulsion of the Acadians. 077. British Generals in the Colonies. 678. Ticonderoga. 079. Quebec. 680. Resources of the Colonies. 681. Causes of the Revolution. 682. Relation of the American Congress to the 0S3. Valley Forge. [Revolution. 081. Boston, Charleston , Philadelphia, etc, 685. The Declaration of Independence. 686. The Men Who Signed the Declaration. 687. Invasion of Canada. 688. Revolutionary Generals. 689. The American Army. 690. Washington as a General. 691. British Commanders of the Revolution. 692. Surrender of Burgoyne. 693. Surrender of Cornwallis. 694. British in the South. 695. Marion, Pickens, and Sumpter. 696. The Prison Ship Jersey. 697. Continental Money. 693. Revolutionary Naval Actions. (99. France and the American Revolution. 700. Ben Franklin. 701. Tories of the Revolution. 702. The Articles of Confederation. 703. The Constitutional Convention. 704. Alexander Hamilton. 705. Ordinance of 1787. 706. Site of the U. S. Capital. 707. America and the French Revolution. 708. Jay's Treaty. 709. Indian Wars of the Northwest. 710. Washington as a Statesman. 711. Weakness of the U. S. After the Revolution. 712. Alien and Sedition Laws. 713. The Federal Party. 714. The Lousiana Purchase. 715. The Embargo Aet. -716. The Indian of Ohio. 717. Cause of the War of 1812. 718. Burning of the Capitol. 719. Naval Actions of 1812. 720. Results of the War of 1812. 721. Oliver Perry. 722. New England States and the War of 1812. 23 72." 5. British at New Orleans. 724. American Army of 1812. 725. The U. S. Bank. 726. The Barbary States. 727. Florida. 728. Slavery Compromises. 729. La Fayette. 730. The Erie Canal. 731. National Roads. 732. Introduction of Railroads. 734. John Ericson. 735. The Southern Indians. 736. The Croton Aqueduct. 737. Literature from 1830 to 1840. 738. Relations of Clay, Webster, and Calhoun. 73'.). "Old Hickory." 740. The Nullification Act. 741. Whig and Democratic Parties. 742. The U. S. Treasury. 743. Slavery Riots in the North. 744. The Mormons. 745. The Effects of the Canadian Revolts of 1837. 746. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. ^47. The Extradition Treaty of 1842. 748. The Oregon Country. 749. The Heirs of the Dutch Patroons of New 750. Texas. [York. 751. Was the Mexican War Right on Our Part? 752. The Smithsonian Institute. 753. Gold in California. 754. The Fugitive Slave Law. 755. The Underground Railway. 756. Filibustering. 757. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill. 75S. The Republican Part v. 759. The Presidential Elections of 185G and 1£G0. 760. The Effect of Slavery on the South. 761. The Dred-Scott Decision. 24 762. The Border States. 763. Causes of the Rebellion. 764. The Blockade. 765. Ironclads. 766. The Merrimac and the Monitor. 767. New Orleans. 768. Seven Days Battle. 769. Jeff Davis. 770. Confederate Privateers. 771. Vicksburg. 772. Lookout Mountain. 773. The Draft. 774. Copperheads. 775. The Wilderness. 776. Presidential Election of 1864. 777. Southern Prison Pens. 778. Andersonville. 779. From Atlanta to the Sea. 780. Appomattox. 781. Assassination of Lincoln. 782. Dead and Wounded. 783. Hospitals. 784. Results of the War. 785. The Atlantic Cable. 786. The National Debt. 787. Carpet Baggers. 788. Reconstruction. 789. Ku-Klux-Klan. 790. Canadian Fisheries. 791. Railroad Building. 792. Custer. 793. The Chinese. 794. Centennial of 1876. 795. Resumption of Notes. 796. Labor Troubles. 797. The Ohio Valley. 798. Assassination of Garfield, 799. An Age of Centennials, 25 800. Oklahoma. 801. Sioux Reservation. 802. Nicknames of the States. [Arnold, etc. 803. American Traitors : Aaron Burr, Benedict 804. Survey and Naming of U. S. Towns. GENERAL HISTORY. 805. Prehistoric Man. 8 16. Early China. 807. Egyptian Hieroglyphics. 808. Religion of the Egyptians. 809. Bahylon. 810. Fall of Assyria. 811. Tyre and its Occupation, 812. Carthaginion Ascendencv. 813. Fall of Carthage. 814. Hannibal. 815. Character of the Hebrew. 816. The Hebrew Exodus. 817. The Jewish Tabernacle. 818. The Judges. 819. The Kings. 820. The Two Kingdoms. 821. The Maccabees. 822. Persian Religion. 823. Persian Civilization. 824. Cyrus Cambvses, Xerxes. 825. The Grecian States. 826. Character of the Greek. 827. Greek Religion. 828. Greek Social Life. 829. Greek Dialects. 830. Brief Sketch of Greek Literature. 831. Rise of Tragedy, Comedy, etc. 832. Homer and Troy. 833. Lvcurgus. 834. Solon. 835. Greek Ostracism, 26 836. Greek Philosophical Schools. 837. Greek Colonies. 838. Marathon, Salamis. 839. Expulsion of the Persians from Greece. 840. Greek Historians. 841. Cyrus the Younger. 842. Alexander the Great. 843. Alexander's Successors. 844. Ptolemy the Great. 845. Roman Legends. 846. Patrician and Plebeian. 847. Pyrrhus. 848. Roman Citizenship. 849. Roman Social Lifj. 850. The Roman Army. 851. Marius and Sulla. 852. The First Triumvirate. 853. The Acropolis of Athens. 854. Cresar as a Civilian. 855. Augustus Ca?,sar. 856. The World at Time of Christ's Birth. 857. The Ancient German. 858. Greek Sculpture. 859. Roman Military Emperors. 860. Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem. 861. Marcus Aurelius. 862. Roman Skepticism. 863. Con stan tine. 864. Downfall of Heathenism. 865. Why Rome Fell. 866. The Barbarian Deluge. 867. Barbarian Migrations. 868. The Vandals in Africa. 869. Theodoric. 870. The Franks. 871. Beginning of Monasticism, 872. Religious Disputes. 873. Belisarius. 874. Career of Mahomet. 875. The Koran. 876. Arabs in Africa and Spain. S77. The Ommjcides and Abbassides. 878. The Janizaries. 879. Arabian Schools. 880. Charlemagne. 881. The Northmen. 8S2. Norman Government. 883. Normans in Naples and Sicily. 884. Henry the Fowler. 885. The Holy Roman Empire. 886. Hildebrand. 887. Purpose and Results of the Crusades. 888. The Children's Crusade. 889. Monk Soldiers. 800. Genghis Khan. 891. Tamerlane. 892. Knighthood. 893. Albigensian War. 894. St. Louis. 895. Marco Polo. 896. The Hanseatic League. 897. Castle Life. 898. The Troubadours. 899. The Babylonian Captivity. 900. Joan of Arc. 901. The House of Hapsburg. 902. Reformers Before the Reformation. 903. Swiss Freedom. 904. Guelph and Ghibelline. 905. Venice. 906. Castile and Aragon. 907. Navarre. 908. Conversion of Scandinavia. 909. Relation between Norway and Sweden, 910. Poland. 911. The Ottoman Turks. 28 912. Feudalism in Japan. 913. Charles the Bold. 914. Expulsion of the Moors from Spain. 915. Isabella and the Heretics. 916. Savonarola. 917. Cosmo de Medici. 918. Ivan the Great. 919. Cossacks. 920. Invention of Printing. 921. Fall of Constantinople and its Results. 922. Tartars. 923. Effect on Europe of the Discovery of Amcric: 924. Conquest of Mexico. 925. Conquest of Peru. 926. Ulrich Von Hutten. 927. Erasmus. 928. Michael Angelo. 929. Luther and Leo X. 930. Francis L, Henry VIII., and Charles V. 931. Peasant War of Germany. 932. Protestantism in Scandinavia. 933. The Catholic Reaction. 934. The Jesuits. 935. The Inquisition. 956. Catherine de Medici. 937. Coligny and the Huguenots. 938. The Thirty Years War. 939. Wallenstein. 940. Gustavus Adolphus. 941. Richelieu. 942. The Jesuits in Japan. 943. The Portuguese in India. 944. War of the Spanish Succession. 915. Law's Louisiana Bubble. 946. Peter the Great. 947. Maria Theresa. 948. The Seven Years War. 919. Fall of Poland, 29 950. Causes of the French Revolution. 951. French Peasantry. 952. The Bastile. 953. Jacobins and Cordeliers. 954. The Massacre of September. 955. Robespierre. 956. The Girondists. 957. Bonaparte in Egypt. 958. Bonaparte in Italy. 959. Bonaparte in Russia. 960. The Reign of Terror. 961. Josephine and Maria Louisa. 962. Waterloo. 963. St. Helena. 961. Libertv among German University Students. 965. The Holy Alliance. 966. The Bourbons. 967. South American Independence. 968. Mexican Freedom. 969. Independence of Modern Greece. 970. Louis Phillippe. 971. Independence of Belgium. 972. War in Afghanistan. 973. The French in the East. 974. Communists in Paris. 975. Nihilists in Russia. 976. Garibaldi. 977. Count Cavour and Italian Unity. 978. Rise of the Black Republic. 979. Schleswig-Holstein. 980. William I. and German Unity. 981. Austro-Prussian War. 982. Franco-Prussian War. 983. Siege of Paris. °84. Bismarck. 985. Great Britain and Canada. 986. Great Britain and Australia. 987. England and Ireland. 30 9S8. Maximilian in Mexico. 989. Development of Mexico. 990. Slavery in Brazil. 991. Freedom of Russian Serfs. 992. The Taiping Rebellion. 993. The Wandering Jew. 994. Chinese Gordon. 995. H. M. Stanley. 996. Livingstone in Africa. 997. Results of Missions. 998. Unity of Mankind. 999. The Brazilian Republic. 1000. South American Railroads. 1001. Nicaragua Canal and What It Will Bring. 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