1.-SOLDIER FRITZ (I) From the German by J. C. Pickard.

33

14. ELEPHANT HUNTING IN AFRICA (I) Sir S. W. Baker.

84

35.-MRS. CAUDLE'S UMBRELLA LECTURE. Douglas Jerrold. 166

45. AN EXPLOIT OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. Sir W. Scott. 205 47. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY LEAVING SCHOOL. Charles Dickens. 212 48.-MARK TWAIN'S WATCH.

S. L. Clemens. 219

50.-AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH (I) 227 51.- AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH (II)

Sir Walter Scott. 232

53. SCENES IN THE YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY. W. F. Phelps. 239 54.-THE DISCOVERY OF PHOSPHORUS

.

Rodney Welch. 243

. J. T. Headley. 251

56. THE BURNING OF Moscow (I)
57. THE BURNING OF MOSCOW (II)
59. THE "ARIEL" AMONG THE SHOALS (I).
60.—THE “ARIEL" AMONG THE SHOALS (II)

62. THE FIRST SHIP OF PETER THE GREAT. E. Schuyler. 276

Charles Kingsley. 317

72.-FRANKLIN'S VISIT TO HIS MOTHER Freeman Hunt. 321

74.-THE SKY

John Ruskin. 331

75.-A DINNER PARTY IN ANCIENT THEBES, Mrs. J. D. Steele. 335

77. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (1) Washington Irving. 342

78. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (II)

80.- LOST ON THE FLOES (I)

81. LOST ON THE FLOES (II) .

66

348

Elisha K. Kane, 356

66 362

John Tyndall. 370

Charlotte M. Yonge. 376

W. H. Prescott. 383

87. CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF GENERAL WADSWORTH.

S. A. Drake. 387

89. THE RUBBER TREES OF THE AMAZON Herbert H. Smith. 396

46.-" CURFEW MUST NOT RING TO-NIGHT," Rosa H. Thorpe. 209

97.-ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. Gray. 435

100. THE RAVEN.

Edgar A. Poe. 454

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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