the Uses and Abuses of Books" James T. Austin: "On the Modern History of Massachusetts" John Pierpont: "On the Value of Human Knowledge" William J. Loring: "An Exposition on Some of the Elementary Principles of Political Economy" Theodore Lyman: "Remarks on the Principal Events of the French Revolution of 1789" 1831 Benjamin A. Gould: "On Switzerland-the Glaciers-and Other Phenomena of the Alps, together with Passes over those Mountains" J. V. C. Smith: "On the Natural History and Cultivation of the Honey Bee, as a Source of Domestic Economy" Enoch Hale: "On Nutrition and on Digestion" J. Greely Stevenson: "On the Varieties of Man" John C. Gray: "On Taxation and Revenue" Lemuel Shaw: "On Laws of Property" Daniel Webster: "Introductory Lecture" Jacob Bigelow: "The Cemetery at Mount Auburn"; "Architecture" Francis C. Gray: "The Aborigines of America"; "Some Peculiarities of the American Form of Government" 1832 Chandler Robbins: Health Gamaliel Bradford: "Apparitions"; "The Organs of Motion" Franklin Dexter: "The Moral Right of Parties to Suit at Law" J. Greely Stevenson: "The Cause of Diversities of Complexion and Figure in Mankind" Charles P. Curtis: "The Benefit to the Public from the Establishment of a Court of Chancery in Massachusetts" Enoch Hale: "Dews and Clouds" John Farrar: "Natural Philosophy" Abraham Mason: "The Art of Wood Engraving" 1833 John Pickering: "The Importance of the Study of Languages"; "Language Comprehending an Account of the Written Language of Ancient Egypt, Called Hieroglyphics, as Explained by Dr. Young and M. Champollion"; "Mexican and Peruvian Languages-and Telegraphic Languages" Jonathan Barber: "Elocution" Edward Everett: "Introductory Lecture" George Ticknor: Shakespeare 1834 John Farrar: Astronomy Caleb Cushing: "Man as the Agent and Object of Civilization"; "Moral and Intellectual Culture"; "Analysis of Social Organizations"; "Government"; "On Civilization and Social State of Christendom"; "The Fine Arts" 1835 Caleb Cushing: "Woman"; "The Discovery and Colonization of America" Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Michel Angelo Buonarte"; "Martin Luther"; "John Milton"; "George Fox"; "The Biography of Edmund Burke"; English Literature; "Permanent Traits of the English National Genius"; "The Age of Fable"; "Chaucer"; "Shakespeare"; "Lord Bacon"; "Ben Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, and Wotton" 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Ethical Writers"; "Modern Aspects of Letters" John Farrar: Astronomy Daniel Webster: "The Progress of Popular Knowledge" Theophilus Parsons: "The Progress and Prospects of Society" John C. Gray: "The Forest Trees of the United States" Rufus Choate: "The Literature of the Sea" 1837 William Sullivan Alexander Young: "The Pequot War of 1637" Charles W. Upham: