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BOOK V.

CONTENTS.

_Prose._

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern
Counties._

THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_

BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_

DR. ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_

BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto]

WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto]

CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_

THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_

LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_

MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_

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 b