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Title: Gifts of Genius
A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors

Author: Various

Release Date: February 27, 2006 [EBook #17872]

Language: English

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GIFTS OF GENIUS:

A Miscellany

OF

PROSE AND POETRY,

BY

AMERICAN AUTHORS.

NEW YORK:
PRINTED FOR C.A. DAVENPORT.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by
C.A. DAVENPORT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY,

OUT AT ELBOWS.--THE STORY OF ST. GEORGE CLEAVE. BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE,

MY SECRET. (_From the French._) BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,

A LEAF FROM MY PARIS NOTE-BOOK. BY H.T. TUCKERMAN,

ON POPULAR KNOWLEDGE. BY GEORGE S. HILLARD,

ON RECEIVING A PRIVATELY PRINTED VOLUME OF POEMS FROM A FRIEND.
BY THOMAS BUCHANAN READ,

THE PRINCE AT LAND'S END. BY CAROLINE CHESEBRO,

SEA-WEED. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,

TREFOIL. BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK,

MISERERE DOMINE. BY WILLIAM H. BURLEIGH,

THE KINGDOMS OF NATURE PRAISING GOD.--A SHORT ESSAY ON THE 148th
PSALM. BY C.A. BARTOL,

TRANSLATIONS. BY THE REV. CHARLES T. BROOKS,

RECOLLECTIONS OF NEANDER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN.
BY THE REV. ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, D.D.,

POEMS. BY JULIA WARD HOWE,

EARTH'S WITNESS. BY ALICE B. HAVEN,

THE NEW ENGLAND THANKSGIVING. BY THE REV. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D.D.,

SONG OF THE ARCHANGELS. (_From Goethe's Faust._) BY GEORGE P. MARSH,

A NIGHT AND DAY AT VALPARAISO. BY ROBERT TOMES,

TRANSLATIONS. BY THE REV. THEODO