AKBOR DAY ITS HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE. 79 



WEALTH IN WOOD. 



The true basis of national wealth is not gold, but wood. Forest destruction is 

 the sin that has caused us to lose our earthly paradise. War, pestilence, storms, 

 fanaticism, and intemperance, together with all other mistakes and misfortunes, 

 have not caused half as much permanent damage as that fatal crime against the 

 fertility of our Mother Earth. Felix L. Oswald. 



SUBJECTS FOR DECLAMATION 



Character of Washington Thomas Jefferson 



Eulogium on Washington Daniel Webster 



Antiquity of Freedom Bryant 



Paul Revere's Ride Longfellow 



Story of Bunker Hill Battle O. W. Holmes 



The American Flag 7. J. Rodman Drake 



Centennial Hymn Whittier 



Tribute to Abraham Lincoln J. R. Lowell 



Sheridan's Ride Read 



Song of Marion's Men Bryant 



Centennial Song Bayard Taylor 



America S. F. Smith 



The Flag of the Union George P. Morris 



Union and Liberty O. W. Holmes 



Other selections for recitation or declamation, a few out of the many, 

 are the following: 



A June Day Lowell: SirLaunfal 



Planting of the Apple Tree Bryant 



The Last Leaf Holmes 



Under the Greenwood Tree Shakespeare 



Among the Trees Bryant 



The Spirit of Poetry Longfellow 



Plant a Tree Lucy Larcom 



The Prairies Bryant 



Popular Poplar Tree Blanch W. Howard 



Woodman, Spare that Tree Morris 



The Ivy Green Dickens 



The Oak Lowell 



The Pine Tree Emerson 



Fair Tree Lady Winchelsea 



Hiawatha, extracts from Longfellow 



Landing of the Pilgrims Mrs. II em ans 



Love of Nature Wordsworth 



May Queen Tennyson 



Discourse on Trees . . . . Beecher 



