As to the second kind of works, their sin is more that of omission than of defective arrangement. All confine themselves to the occurrences, interesting no doubt, which constitute the history of our country, but the reader necessarily rises from the perusal totally ignorant of many of those great and important collateral events, which, although occurring in foreign countries, have exercised so powerful an influence over our own. To remedy both these defects is the object of the present work, in which the youth of both sexes will have presented to them a narrative, chronologically arranged, of many of the most interesting and striking events which have happened either in the old or the new world; characteristic sketches of men who have acquired celebrity by their virtues, their talents, or the services they have rendered their fellow creatures; an accurate description of the progress of literature and the arts, together with general views of the manners and customs of the civilized world. General View of Europe at the commencement of the Six teenth Century Accession of Henry VIII.—Battle of Flodden-field.... America. Conquest of Mexico Field of the Cloth of Gold. Charles V.-Francis I.-Battle of Pavia 4 11 17 23 Accession of Edward VI.-Fiesco's Conspiracy. Frederick, Elector of Saxony 37 42 47 54 Death of Mary.-Accession of Queen Elizabeth...... 71 Page The great Earthquake of Lisbon..... Indian Barbarity-the Black Hole of Calcutta.. 341 355 364 George III.-Naval and Military Transactions in the West Indies... 398 The Calamities of Poland 406 Defeat of the Count de Grasse by Admiral Rodney. 416 Siege of Gibraltar 425 .... Assassination of Gustavus III., King of Sweden, by Ankar- stræm Flight of Louis XVI. to Varennes, and his Re-capture 441 449 Manners and Customs of the Eighteenth Century 460 Chronological List of Inventions and Discoveries.. 464 General View of Europe at the commencement of the Nine- |