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CONTENTS.
NO.
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)
8. Corrupt State of the Church before the Reformation (Froude)
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II. Extracts from Sir Robert Peel's Address to Glasgow Students 13
12. Trumpeter Redbreast (Liliput Levée)
13. Hunting on a Great Scale (Dr. Livingstone)
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14. Niebuhr's Ballad Theory (Sir G. C. Lewis)
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15. Boston in the Last Century (Bancroft)
16. Enthusiasm for Frederic II. (Macaulay)
17. Lord Clyde (The Times)
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18. The White, the Red, and the Black Men (Washington
22. The Lion-killer (Chambers' Series)
23. The Broken Flower-pot (Bulwer Lytton)
24. Greville's Sketches of his Contemporaries -
Sir Robert Peel in 1834
Greville's Sketches-(continued)
Macaulay and Brougham
Brougham and Rogers
Sir James Graham
Wordsworth
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)
36. Wit and Humour (Sydney Smith)
37. Field Sports and Agriculture of the Middle Ages (Hallam)
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)
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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) .
46. The Spanish Guerillas (Moyle Sherer)
47. The Bedouins (Lady Duff Gordon)
49. Sidi-Embarek, the Holy Marabout
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48. The Cost of the Bombardment of Algiers
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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. Cobbett)
57. London Bridge (Examiner)
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58. Early London (The Builder)
59. Paris (Globe)
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)
70. The Duke of Wellington and Dr. Hutton (Jackson and
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71. Speech of Rolla (Sheridan)
72. Curates and Bishops (S. Smith)
73. Dining-out in the Country (S. Smith)
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78. Markets and Wages in the Reign of Henry VIII. (Froude) . 105
79. The Last Minstrel (W. Scott)
80. Cheerfulness (F. Jeffrey)
81. Patriotism (The Saturday Review)
82. Reform.-Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe (Lowe)
The Last Act (Gladstone).
The Programme of Philosophy (B. Disraeli)
83. New Year's Day in Paris (Daily News)
84. The Lodging-house Keeper
85. The Well of St. Keyne (Southey)
86. The Bedouins (Standard)
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) .
100. The Antiquary (W. Scott)
99. Truth in Scientific Research (Prof. A. W. Williamson)
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IOI. Scene from 'Virginius' (Sheridan Knowles)
102. George Stephenson (S. Smiles)
103. Jane de Montfort (J. Baillie)
104. The English Country Gentleman (Thackeray)
105. Commerce (J. 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)
II. The Greenland Glacier (McClintock)
112. The Downfall of Bonaparte (Jeffrey)
113. French (Readings by Starlight)
114. Storming the Temple of Mexico (Prescott)
115. The Derby .
116. Country-house Coquette (Disraeli)
117. The Monkey (Mary Howitt)
118. The Sphynx (Kinglake) .
120. The Gladiator (Byron)
119. Grandiloquent Writing (W. S. Landor)
121. The Night Noises of 'Suburbia' (Globe)
122. Niagara in Winter
123. The Red Man at the Niagara Falls
124. The Poor Relation (C. Lamb)
125. The Rich Relation (Thackeray)
126. Peroration to Sheridan's Speech in the Case of Warren
Hastings