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ROWN JEWELS

OR

GEMS OF LITERATURE

ART AND MUSIC

BEING

CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS AND MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES:

COMPRISING

GEMS FOR THE HOME CIRCLE; NARRATIVES, BALLADS, SONGS; POEMS OF FRIEND-
SHIP AND LOVE; BRILLIANT DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE
AND RURAL LIFE; LYRICS OF HEROISM, ADVENTURE AND PATRIOTISM;
JEWELS OF SENTIMENT; CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM RELIGIOUS

LITERATURE, SORROW AND ADVERSITY, CHILDHOOD

AND YOUTH; DESCRIPTIONS OF PERSONS, PLACES

AND HISTORIC EVENTS; MASTERPIECES OF
DRAMATIC LITERATURE; POETICAL

ROMANCE; WIT, HUMOR, ETC.

INCLUDING A BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHORS.

THE WHOLE FORMING

A Bast Treasury of the Gems of Poetry, Prose and Song.

COMPILED BY

HENRY DAVENPORT NORTHROP, D. D.,

AUTHOR OF

"MARVELOUS WONDERS OF THE WHOLE WORLD," "EARTH, SEA AND SKY," ETC., ETC.

EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS SUPERB STEEL-PLATE ENGRAVINGS.

BOSTON, MASS.:

J. S. ROUND,

21 BROMFIELD STREET.