y 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.

Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from
the writings of the best English authors. But the passages are not all
equal, nor are they all such as we would call "the best," and the more
you read and are able to judge them for yourselves, the better you will
be able to see what is the difference between the best and those that
are not so good.

By the best authors are meant those who have written most skilfully
in prose and verse. Some of these have written in prose, because they
wished to tell us something more fully and freely than they could do if
they tied themselves to line