157

The Influence of Athens Thomas Babington,
Lord Macaulay 159

National Morality John Bright 161

_Hamlet's Advice to the Players_ William Shakespeare 164

_Rosabelle_ Sir Walter Scott 166

_The Island of the Scots_ William E. Aytoun 168

Cranford Society Mrs. Gaskell 178

_Sir Galahad_ Alfred, Lord Tennyson 182

_Song for Saint Cecilia's Day_ John Dryden 186

_The Day was Lingering_ Charles Heavysege 189

_On First Looking into
Chapman's Homer_ John Keats 189

_Great Things Were Ne'er
Begotten in an Hour_ Sir Daniel Wilson 190

_A Wood Lyric_ William Wilfred Campbell 191

_To Night_ Percy Bysshe Shelley 193

The Opening Scene at the Trial Thomas Babington, Lord
of Warren Hastings Macaulay 194

Peroration of Opening Speech
against Edmund Burke Warren Hastings 201

_The Song My Paddle Sings_ E. Pauline Johnson 203

_The Defence of the Bridge_ Thomas Babington, Lord
Macaulay 206

On the Death of King Edward VII Sir Herbert Henry
Asquith 217

The Heroes of Magersfontein _The London Daily News_ 221

_Funeral of Julius Caesar_ William Shakespeare 225

_The Revenge_ Alfred, Lord Tennyson 234

_Herve Riel_ Robert Browning 241

The Handwriting on the Wall Bible 248

Paul's Defence before King
Agrippa Bible 251

_The Stranded Ship_ Charles G. D. Roberts 254

_Sir Patrick Spens_ Old Ballad 258

_King John and the Abbot of
Canterbury_ Old Ballad 262

The Key to Human Happiness George Eliot