WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES BOOK V. INTRODUCTION.