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PREFACE.
RECEIVING simultaneously requests for "More Memories" and invitations to give Lectures in America, I have endeavoured in this volume to combine. my compliance with a very grateful appreciation of the honour conferred upon me.
S. REYNOLDS HOLE.
CONTENTS.
I.
PERSONAL.
Fear and Hope-Some Misapprehension as to our Apprecia-
tions of America — General Washington - American Au-
thors Subjects and Objects of Addresses
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II.
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ECCLESIASTICAL.
The American Episcopate - Bishops of To-day The Church
of England Fifty Years Ago - In the Villages - The Fabric
Services - Sermons- Music - The Transformation
III.
PREACHING AND PREACHERS.
Earnest Preaching and Written Sermons - The Education of
the Memory — Simplicity and Brevity - Pusey and New-
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Canon Liddon - Living Preachers . 33
IV.
CHURCH SERVICES AND MISSIONS.
American Admiration of English Cathedrals
Hawthorne -
Wendell Holmes Lowell "A Petrified Religion," Fifty
Years Ago Recent Progress, Structural and Devotional -
Elaborate and Congregational Music Multiplication of
Services Foreign and Home Missions - Plan and Prog-
ress of the Latter, Occasional and Permanent
tion and Successful Work of the Universities' and Public
Schools' Missions .
V.
OUR PERPLEXITIES.
Includes all who are "Worse for Drink"
- The Remedies - Total Abstinence
Some of the Causes
and Temperance - Doctors differ- Prevention better than
Cure America Foremost in the Crusade - Decrease of
Drunkenness
VI.
OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY.
Causes of Disregard and Desecration- Who are most to blame?
-Differences of Opinion as to the Manner of Observance
-The Severe Sabbatarian — The Opening of Galleries and
Museums - Bicycles — The Bishop of New York and Dean
Stanley on the Subject - Cremation not Popular in Eng-
land- When Expedient Discontinued by the Romans
when converted to Christianity — Funeral Reform
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not Religious - Mistakes in selecting Schools - Overwork
Adaptation Study of "the Classes" Ladies and
Gentlemen How are they produced? - Spoiled Children
- Results
Its Happiness - The Rose looking in at the Window
Instincts My First Lover's Lay - Some Sad Mistakes-
A Caution to Lovers - Old Customs
X.
OUR ARISTOCRACY.
A Mixture, as in all other Sorts and Conditions of Men - In-
justice of Sweeping Condemnations Noblesse oblige ·
"Drunk as a Lord "
- Rebuke of an Unjust Steward
XI.
THE WORKING MEN.
The Dig-
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Two Kinds of Working Men accurately described
nity and the Happiness of Work - Timoleon d'Ecossais
The Contest between Industry and Indolence - Sympathy
between Rich and Poor - Lying Prophets who would dis-
suade from Work - The Smoke Nuisance and Sanitary
Laws
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XII.
POLITICS.
A Disagreeable Subject-Party-spirit - Early Recollections,
Politics and Port Wine - Protection and Free Trade-
Charles Dickens on Patriotism - Lord Rosebery's Brighter
Hopes Analogous Temptations Gladstone O'Connell
Daniel Webster - John Bright Palmerston -
- Peel
D'Israeli
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XIII.
WHY ARE SPEAKERS SO MANY AND ORATORS
Vain Excuses - No Effort of Preparation - Daunted by Fail-
- Earnestness the Indispensable Element of Success
Cor paratum - The Speaker must be Master of his Subject,
and must make a Clear Plan of his Argument — Utterance
and Manner.