amp Act--Tax on Tea--American Independence
Acknowledged--Impeachment of Hastings--War of 1812--First
English Railway--George IV.--William IV.--Reform
Bill--Emancipation of the Slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

CHAPTER XIII.

Victoria--Famine in Ireland--War with Russia--Sepoy
Rebellion--Massacre at Cawnpore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

CHAPTER XIV.

Atlantic Cable--Daguerre's Discovery--First World's
Fair--Death of Albert--Suez Canal--Victoria Empress of
India--Disestablishment of Irish Branch of Church of
England--Present Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

CHAPTER XV

Death of Queen Victoria--Russo-Japanese War . . . . . . . . . . 191

_HISTORY OF IRELAND_

Pre-Christian Ireland--From Augustine to English Conquest--From
Henry II. to Elizabeth--From Elizabeth to William III. and
Mary--From William III. to Act of Union--From Act of Union
to death of Parnell--New Land Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

_HISTORY OF SCOTLAND_

Early Celtic Period--Period from Malcolm III. to Robert
Bruce--From Bruce to James I.--From James I. to Union of
Crowns--From Union of Crowns to Treaty of Union--Brief
Summary of Period Since the Treaty of Union . . . . . . . . . 249

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Magna Charta, 1215: King John submits to the Barons, and signs
the Great Charter of British Liberties . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

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Queen Elizabeth going on board the "Golden Hind" . . . . . . . . 80

Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament, 1653 . . . . . . . . . 116

Nelson's Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 . . . . . . . 144

The British Squares at Quatre-Bras, 1815 . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

The British in India: A native prince receiving the decoration
of the order of the Star of India from Albert Edward, the
Prince of Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

CHAPTER I

The remotest fact in the history of England is written in her rocks.
Geology tells us of a time when no sea flowed between Dover and Calais,
while an unbroken continent extended from the Mediterranean to the
Orkneys.

Huge mounds of rough stones called Cromlechs, have yielded up still
another secret. Before the coming of the Keltic-Aryans