XXXVII. The Old-time Thanksgiving Day. Donald G. Mitchell 174 XXXVIII. Into the Better Land. XXXIX. The Character of Washington. LXXXIV. A Hundred Years of Independence. R. O'Gorman 422 LXXXV Second Inaugural Address . [The figures in the first column refer to literary articles; those in the second to biographical notes.] Charles C. Abbott...... 28 461 | Henry Lee... 184 485 374, 441 Horace Greeley.. O. A. Brownson. 343 502 Benjamin Franklin.. Edward E. Hale.. Olive Thorne Miller. 403 507 174 484 369 504 59 467 422 508 68 468 410 508 109 475 488 368 504 Fitz-Greene Halleck.... 122 478 Edmund C. Stedman... 430 509 FIFTH READER. I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI. BY GEORGE BANCROFT.' THE long-expected discovery' of the Mississippi was at hand, to be accomplished by James Marquette3 and Louis Joliet. The enterprise was favored by Talon,* who, on the point of quitting Canada, wished to signalize the last years of his stay by opening for France the way to the western ocean; and who, immediately on the arrival of Frontenac from France in 1672, had advised him to employ Louis Joliet in the discovery. Joliet was a native of Quebec, educated at its college, and a man "of great experience" as a wayfarer in the wilder-10 ness. He had already been in the neighborhood of the great river which was called the Mississippi, and which at that time was supposed to discharge itself into the Gulf of California; and early in 1673 he entered on his great career. 15 A branch of the Pottawatomies, familiar with Marquette as a missionary, heard with wonder the daring proposal. "Those distant nations," said they, "never spare the strangers; their mutual wars fill their borders with bands of warriors; the Great River abounds in 20 |