_Students' Themes_-- A Hero Dead Ida Treat 485 My First Day at School Máximo Kalaw 487 The Guinatan Prize Leopoldo Faustino 488 =Anecdotes= Coleridge's Retort 493 An Inevitable Misfortune 494 A Point Needing to be Settled 494 Patience 494 Preaching and Practice 495 Johnson's Dictionary 495 The Boy Kipling 496 Sir Godfrey Kneller Spence 496 Pope and the Trader Spence 497 The Capitan Municipal and the Jokers José Feliciano 497 An Instance of Bamboo Spanish Pilar Ejercito 498 Mr. Taft's Mistake Amando Clements 499 =Eye-Witness Accounts= The Portuguese Revolution Newspaper 503 _Student's Theme_-- A Contrast Adolfo Scheerer 509 =Tales of Actual Adventures= The Bear Hunt Tolstoy 514 _Students' Themes_-- Saladin and I Fight an Alupong Cecilio Esquivel 525 I Get Two Beatings Facundo Esquivel 527 The Fall of Juan Gregorio Farrales 528 A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao José Cariño 529 =Travellers' Sketches= On the Way to Talavera George Borrow 534 Smyrna--First Glimpses of the East Thackeray 539 _Student's Theme_-- A Trip from Curimao to Laoag Fernando Maramag 551 =Journals and Diaries= Extracts from Pepys' Diary 562 _Students' Themes_-- A Diary of Four Days Facundo Esquivel 564 A Journal: Mock Heroic Victoriano Yamzon 567 =Autobiography and Memoirs= The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by himself 575 Student autobiography Domingo Guanio 585 What I Remember of the Coming of the Americans Leopoldo Faustino 588 =Biographies= Queen Christina Hawthorne 595