LONDON :

GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON,

ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

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} Sir W. HERSCHEL

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DAY.

SUBJECT.

AUTHOR. Page

1. A Good Man's Day

BISHOP HALL

2. The Influence of Science on the Well Being and Pro-

gress of Society.

3. The Piteous Death of the Son of Gaston de Foix FROISSART

11

4. Scenes from the City Madam

MASSINGER

18

HART'S LIFE OF Gus-

5. The Sack of Magdeburg

27

TATUS ADOLPHUS.

6. A Tale of Terror

COURIER

32

7. The Opening Year.

VARIOUS

35

8. Sermon upon the Government of the Tongue BUTLER

44

9. Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey

LANDOR

53

10. Dejection; an Ode .

COLERIDGE

57

11. Apophthegms.—I.

VARIOUS

62

12. Speech at Plymouth in 1823

CANNING

70

13. Sir Roger de Coverley.-I.

ADDISON

74

14. Of the Jealousy of Trade .

HUME.

84

15. The Measures and Offices of Friendship

JEREMY TAYLOR 88

16. The History of Perkin Warbeck

BACON.

96

17. The Ancient Mansion .

CRABBE

110

18. The Spider and the Bee

Swift.

113

19. Civilization

GuizOT

116

20. The Barometer .

ARNOTT

125

21. A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis C. LAMB

130

22. Nature's Law .

HOOKER

138

23. The Good Lord Clifford

WORDSWORTH

144

24. The First Man

BUFFON

151

25. Struggling with Adversity

BASIL HALL

155

26. Omens

SIR H. DAVY

158

27. The Present Age

CHANNING

162

28. Classical Education

DR. ARNOLD

167

29. Sunday. .

(EO. HERBERT 171

30. Sir Alexander Ball

COLERIDGE

173

31. Faustus

GOETHE [ANSTER]. 183

32. The British Hirundines

GILBERT WHITE 191

33. Hymn of Heavenly Beauty

SPENSER

201

34. Character of James Watt

JEFFERY

211

35. Apophthegms.—II.

VARIOUS

215

36. The Industry of a Gentleman

BARROW

224

37. Flowers

VARIOUS

233

38. Account of the Great Fire of London

EVELYN

245

39. Sir Roger de Coverley.-II. .

ADDISON

250

40. Scenes from the Duchess of Malfi

WEBSTER.

259

41. The Inconvenience of Greatness

MONTAIGNE

274

42. The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

HAZLITT

271

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