CONTENTS.

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PART I.

1. Animal Courage inferior to Moral Bravery (The Globe)

2. The Good Old Times (Hallam).

3. Algiers (Daily Telegraph)

4. Actions, not Words (W. Cowper)

5. Commonplace Maxims (Saturday Review)

6. The Franco-Arab College at Algiers (Evening Star)

7. Death of Charles the Bold (F. Kirk)

9. Livingstone.

8. Corrupt State of the Church before the Reformation (Froude)

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10. Timour, or Tamerlane

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11. Extracts from Sir Robert Peel's Address to Glasgow Students 13

12. Trumpeter Redbreast (Liliput Levée)

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13. Hunting on a Great Scale (Dr. Livingstone)

14. Niebuhr's Ballad Theory (Sir G. C. Lewis)

15. Boston in the Last Century (Bancroft)

16. Enthusiasm for Frederic II. (Macaulay)

17. Lord Clyde (The Times)

18. The White, the Red, and the Black Men (Washington

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25. Xenophon's Address to the Army (G. Grote)

26. Horatius offers to defend the Bridge (Macaulay)

27. Pearls among the Romans (M'Culloch) .

28. Maternal Love (Southey)

29. They manage those Things better in Russia

30. The Wreck of the 'Royal Charter'

31. How to get on in the World (De Fraine)

32. The Battle of Hastings (Sir F. Palgrave)

33. The Greek Drama (Grote)

34. Age and Youth (R. Southey)

35. The Character of Hamlet (Hazlitt)

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36. Wit and Humour (Sydney Smith)

37. Field Sports and Agriculture of the Middle Ages (Hallam). 49

38. The Order of the Key (Gleig)

39. Wealth

40. Facts and Figures of Fairyland (Daily News)

Harlequin's Dress. The Spangles .

The Masks

The Transformation Scene.

The Miseries of the Performers.

41. The Siege of Arcot (Macaulay)

42. Assassination of General Kleber (Denon)

43. Napoleon's System of Warfare (Jackson and Scott)

44. Execution of the Duke d'Enghien (Bourrienne)

45. A Spanish General-in-Chief (Earl of Munster).

47. The Bedouins (Lady Duff Gordon)

46. The Spanish Guerillas (Moyle Sherer)

48. The Cost of the Bombardment of Algiers

49. Sidi-Embarek, the Holy Marabout

50. Self-Estimate of Progress (A. K. H. B.)

51. A New Way of Paying Salaries (Charles Lamb).

52. A Game-Pie (F. Buckland).

53. The Mosque of the Bloody Baptism at Cairo (C. R. Baynes) 64

54. Executions in Servia

55. Boyish Scenes and Recollections (W.

56. The Mouse's Petition (Mrs. Barbaula)

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60. The Apothecary of Newcastle (G. Colman).

61. A Hunt in a Horse-pond

62. The Jews (Disraeli) .

63. The Saxons (Burke)

64. Last Words of Celebrated Characters (Cosmopolitan Review)

65. The Children in the Bush (The Times)

66. The Passage of the Beresina (Labaume)

PART II.

67. The Fête of August 15 in Paris (Our Own Correspondent)

The Marchand de Coco

Open-air Shops

Open-air Theatres

Les Vieux de la Vieille

68. Sorrows of Werther (Thackeray)

69. Lord Ellenborough and the Bandbox (Samuel Rogers)

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70. The Duke of Wellington and Dr. Hutton (Jackson and

Scott)

71. Speech of Rolla (Sheridan)

72. Curates and Bishops (S. Smith)

73. Dining-out in the Country (S. Smith)

74. Dinner

75. A Chinese Dinner (Galignani)

78. Markets and Wages in the Reign of Henry VIII. (Froude). 105

81. Patriotism (The Saturday Review)

82. Reform.-Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe (Lowe)

The Last Act (Gladstone)

The Programme of Philosophy (B. Disraeli)

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87. La Grande Ville de Marseille (Daily Telegraph)

88. St. Peter's Chapel in the Tower.

89. Education (Professor Huxley)

90. An Aunt (A. Trollope) .

91. The Guards (A. W. Kinglake)

92. The Browns (T. Hughes)

93. On Slavery (Channing)

94. The Last of the Incas (Prescott)

95. Death of Goethe (G. H. Lewis)

96. Sydney Smith builds his House (S. Smith)

97. The Man of Many Speeches (Pall Mall Gazette)

98. David Copperfield (C. Dickens)

99. Truth in Scientific Research (Prof. A. W. Williamson)

100. The Antiquary (W. Scott)

IOI. Scene from 'Virginius' (Sheridan Knowles)

102. George Stephenson (S. Smiles)

103. Jane de Montfort (7. Baillie)

104. The English Country Gentleman (Thackeray)

105. Commerce (7. Bright)

106. The Quarrel of Squire Bull and his Son (Paulding)

107. Vanity Fair (Thackeray)

108. English Dwellings in the Fifteenth Century (Hallam)

109. The Dog Show at Islington (Daily Telegraph)

110. The Assault of Badajos (Moyle Sherer)

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126. Peroration to Sheridan's Speech in the Case of Warren

Hastings