Excerpt from Scori? Eulogy on Shakespeare (1864); What We Breathe (1869); The First Christmas-Eve (1874); The Sun That Never Sets (1879)
The Eulogy on Shakespeare was pronounced (by Evelyn Evans) in Bryan Hall, Chicago, April 23, 1864; at the Tercentenary celebration of the poet"s birthday. As it has been submitted to a Procrustean process, for publication in the "Analytical Sixth Reader" and "The American Elocutionist," I consider myself justified in reproducing it, entire, for private circulation.
It is due to the truth of history to say that the Eulogy was written "on the spur of the moment"; at the request of a committee from the St. Georges Society, who discovered, only two nights before the celebration, that the task had been neglected by a gentleman to whom it was originally assigned. I have preferred not to make a few changes, suggested during a more leisurely perusal.
The "First Christmas Eve" was written under less pressure for time; which, to the work of the journalist is not always an advantage. It was published in the "Tribune," of December 24, 1874.
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