The Fox without a Tail.

On Modesty

The Art of Pleasing

The Lazy Mind

The British Empire

(Spectator)

11

(James's Fables of Æsop)
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters) 12
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters) 13
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters)

England and Scotland (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather)

(J. R. MacCulloch, British Empire)

Description of England. (J. R. MacCulloch, British Empire)

15

16

18

19

20

22

(Wm. Cowper's Letters)

(Addison, Spectator)

29

31

34

37

41

45

49

On some Pleasures in Rural Life. (Wm. Cowper's Letters)
The Comparison of Watches (Edgeworth's Modern Griselda)
Hearers and Doers. . (S. Clarence, Not a Minute to Spare)
Scene from "The Good-natured Man
(O. Goldsmith)

Another Scene from "The Good-natured Man" (O. Goldsmith)

Firmness of Alexander Severus .

School-day Anecdotes

(Gibbon's Roman Empire)

Page

53

54

(Defoe)

59

(Sir W. Scott, Autobiography)

Robinson Crusoe in his Island

Gulliver's Way of Living in the Country of Lilliput. (Swift) 62

A Travelling Incident (Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit)
The Literary Snobs (W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs)
Scene from "The School for Scandal"
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore

65

70

(Sheridan)

(Byron's Letters)

72

79

A Few Words of Advice to Young People

Pope to Wycherley

The Death of Bayard . (Robertson, History of Charles V.)

On Anger

(Dodsley, Economy of Human Life)

(Goldsmith)

98

Brutus on the Death of Cæsar (Shakspeare, Julius Cæsar)

Scene between the Jews Shylock and Tubal. (Shakspeare)

A Sketch of the Normans (Lord Macaulay, History of England) 100

Influence of the French Language and Literature in the Age

of Louis XIV. .(Lord Macaulay, History of England) 104

(Washington Irving, Sketch-Book) 106

A Pretty Quarrel between Master Tom Jones and his Play-

(Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward) 123

Fox (Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III.) 135

Montaigne. (Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe) 138

The Vicar of Wakefield and his Family

(Washington Irving, Sketch-Book) 152

(Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering) 155

Lady Montagu to Mrs. Thistlethwayte (Lady Montagu's Letters) 157

Scene from "She Stoops to Conquer".

A Sea-fog and Wreck.

A Highland Revenge.

The Widow and her Son.

(Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy) 217

(Washington Irving, Sketch-Book) 221

An Episode of the late War, 1855. (W. H. Russell, The War) 226

(Lord Macaulay) 255

The Death of Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Scene from "The Clandestine Marriage" (Garrick and Colman) 259

The Native Village .

(Charles Lamb, Rosamund Gray) 265

(Vicesimus Knox) 269

(Mrs. Barbauld) 272

(H. Blair) 276

On Forming a Taste for Simple Pleasures

On the Folly of Inconsistent Expectations

Religion never to be treated with Levity.

Scene from "Money"

Lord Chatham's Speech on the Immediate Removal of the

Troops from Boston, in America .

.(Sir E. Bulwer Lytton) 277

280

286

(Miss Mitford, Country Stories)

290

The Spectre Guest's Coming. (Miss Mitford, Country Stories)

Town versus Country

The Battle of Pharsalia. (O. Goldsmith, History of Rome) 295

The Battle of Otterburn (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather) 303

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

(E. S. Creasy) 308

The Battle of Assye (From the Duke of Wellington's Despatches) 318

Memorandum on the Battle of Assye

The Battle of the Alma.

(W. H. Russell, The War) 321

The Rattle of the chem

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