Half-hours with the Best Authors: Including Biographical and Critical Notices

GASTON DE FOIx, The Piteous Death of the KEMBLE, John, Coleridge, 62.
Kettle, Dr, Aubrey, 383.

Son of, Froissart, 12.

ILLUSTRIOUS Prisoners, Bacon, 59.
Imitation of Christ, The, Bishop Beveridge,
384.

Imitation of Horace, Pope, 281.
Inconvenience of Greatness, Of the, Mon-
taigne, 333.

Industry of a Gentleman, The, Barrow, 522.
Influence of Science on the Wellbeing and

Progress of Society, Herschel, 6.

Instinct, Green, 354.

Intelligence, Precocious, Lane, 381.

Knowledge, Desire of, Boswell, 57.
Knowledge, Religious, Robert Hall, 252.
Koran, The, G. Campbell, 268.

LADY, The Voluble, Jane Austen, 189.
La Vendée, The War in, Marquise de La
rochejaquelein, 30.

Law, Merciful, Bacon, 65.
Law, Nature's, Hooker, 130.
Lenders, The Safest Bacon, 264.

Lesson, A, for Pretenders, Peacham, 201.
London, Account of the Great Fire of, Evelyn,
218.

London, Progress of the Great Plague of
Pepy's, 531.

MAID, The Nut-Brown, Anonymous, 554
Man, The Candid, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
66.

Man, The First, Buffon, 126.
Mansion, The Ancient, Crabbe, 108.

March, Lines on the First Mild Day of, Words
worth, 40.

Martin, Henry, Aubrey, 61. .-.
May Queen, The, Tennyson, 539.
May, Selections on, from Wordsworth, Spen
ser, James I. of Scotland, Edwards,
Longfellow, and Shakspere, 193.
Measures and Offices of Friendship, The,
Jeremy Taylor, 168.

Mechanical Arts, Progress of the, Daniel

Webster, 197.

Memory, Ben Jonson, 264.

Merciful Law, Bacon, 65.

Metropolis, Complaint of the Decay of Beg-
gars in the, C. Lamb, 117.

Inventor of the Stocking Frames, The, Au- Minister, The Faithful, Thomas Fuller, 338.

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brey, 63.

Irish Village, An, Carleton, 243.

JEALOUSY of Trade, Of the, David Hume,
113:

Johnson, Dr, and his Times, Macaulay, 272.
Julian, Count, Extract from the Tragedy of,
Landor, 323.

Modern Dramatic Poets, The. See Poets.
Montfort, De, Extract from the Tragedy of

Joanna Baillie, 320.

Montrose, The Fall of the Marquis of, Claren
don, 411.

NATURE's Law, Hooker, 130.

Newspapers, The Age before, Walpole, 64. ¿

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ST BARTHOLOMEW, Bacon, 63.
St Paul at Athens, Milman, 43.
Scene from Old Fortunatus, Dekker, 501.
Scenes from the Alchemist, Ben Jonson, 403.
Science, Influence of, on the Wellbeing and
Progress of Society, Herschel, 6.
Schoolmaster, The, Verplanck, 378.
Sensitive Plant, Lines on the, Shelley, 352.
Sermon of the Plough, The, Latimer, 435.
Sir Roger de Coverley, Addison, 73, 228, 392,
560.

Skylark, Ode to the, Shelley, 457.

Society, the Influence of Science on the Well-
being and Prosperity of, Herschel, 6.
SONG, SCOTTISH-

Auld Robin Gray, Lady Anne Barnard, 241,
Spider and the Bee, The, Swift, 110.
Stocking Frames, The Inventor of the, Au.
brey, 63.

Story of Richard Plantagenet, The, Brett, 314
Struggling with Adversity, Basil Hall, 140.
Sunday, Herbert, 91.

Swallow, Lines to the, Anacreon, 452.
Swallow, The First, Anonymous, 193.

TALE of Terror, A, Courier, 37.

Thrush Sing, Lines on Hearing a, Burns, 41.
Times, Dr Johnson and his, Macaulay, 272.
Tobacco, Aubrey, 266.

Tongue, Upon the Government of the, Butler
298.

Progress of the Great Plague of London, The, Trade, Of the Jealousy of, David Hume, 115
Pepys, 531.

Translation, L'Estrange, 262.

Progress of the Mechanical Arts, Daniel Treason, Coleridge, 265.

Webster, 197.

Tyranny, The Desolation of, Lane, 61.

**A notice and estimate of the life and writings of the author will be found
prefixed to each extract.

ADDISON, Sir Roger de Coverley, 73, 228, BROWNING, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 476.

392, 560.

ANACREON, Lines to the Swallow, 452.
ANONYMOUS, The First Swallow, 193; Gentle
Herdsman, 239; Sir Patrick Spence, 240;
The Old and the Young Courtier, 317;
The Nut-Brown Maid, 554.
ARNOLD, Classical Education, 153.
ARNOTT, The Barometer, 85.
AUBREY, Henry Martin, 61; Civil War, 62;
Inventor of the Stocking Frames, 63; Days
before Books, 260; Keep to your Calling,
262; Tobacco, 266; Dr Kettle, 383.
AUSTEN, JANE, The Voluble Lady, 189.

BACON, Illustrious Prisoners, 59; St Bar-
tholomew, 63; Merciful Law, 65; Parlia-
mentary Despatch, 65; The History of
Perkin Warbeck, 93; The Safest Lenders,
264; Danger, 265; Ambition, 267; Of
Great Place, 467.

BAILLIE, JOANNA, Extract from the Tragedy
of De Montfort, 320.

BARNARD, LADY A., Auld Robin Gray, 241.
BARROW, The Industry of a Gentleman, 522.
Beveridge, BISHOP, The Imitation of Christ,
384.

BOSWELL, Desire of Knowledge, 57.

BRYANT, Lines on March, 43.
BUFFON, The First Man, 126.

BURNS, Lines on Hearing a Thrush Sing, 41 j
To a Mountain Daisy, 347-
BUTLER, Upon the Government of the Tongue,
298.

CAMPBELL, G., The Koran, 268.
CAMPBELL, Lines on Flowers, 353.
CARLETON, An Irish Village, 243.
CARLYLE, Work, 397.

CAVENDISH, Death of Cardinal Wolsey, 511.
CHANNING, The Present Age, 148.
CHAUCER, Lines to Daisies, 347-
CLARENDON, The Fall of the Marquis of Mon-
trose, 411.

COLERIDGE, Dejection: an Ode, 51; Canning
and the Ambassador, 59; John Kemble,
62; Och Clo, 64; Sir Alexander Ball, 157;
Conscience, 262; Treason, 265; Extract
from the Tragedy of Remorse, 326; Lines
to the Nightingale, 453.

COLTON, Perfection, 60; Opinions, 65; Ob
servations, 267.

COURIER, A Tale of Terror, 37.

CRABBE, The Ancient Mansion, 108,
CROCKER, Goldsmith, 59.

DAVY, SIR H., Omens, 144.
DEKKER, Scene from Old Fortunatus, 501.
DICKENS, The Duel, 424.

DRAYTON, Lines on Flowers, 348; Lines on
Birds, 455-

DRUMMOND, Lines to the Nightingale, 453.

EDWARDS, Lines on May, 196.

JOHNSON, Waller, 65; The Vicar of Wakefield
266; Youth, 384.

JONSON, BEN, Memory, 264; Scenes from
"The Alchemist," 403.

LAMB, C., A Complaint of the Decay of
Beggars in the Metropolis, 117.

LANDOR, Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey,
47; Extract from the Tragedy of Count
Julian, 323.

EVELYN, Account of the Great Fire of London, LANE, The Desolation of Tyranny, 61.

218.

FOSTER, JOHN, Decision of Character, 202.
FRANKLIN, DR, Poor Richard, 459.
FROISSART, The Piteous Death of the Son of
Gaston de Foix, 12.

LAROCHEJAQUELEIN, MARQUISE DE, The Wai
in La Vendée, 30.

LATIMER, The Sermon of the Plough, 435.
L'ESTRANGE, Translation, 262; King James
Horse, 262; Begging a Fool, 265.
LOCKER, E. H., The Old English Admiral,

545.

LOGAN-Ode to the Cuckoo, 453.
LONGFELLOW, Lines on May, 196; On Flowers

FULLER, THOMAS, Decayed Gentry, 58;
Burning of Wickliffe's Body by order of
the Council of Constance, 64; Tenderness
of Conscience, 261; The Faithful Minister, LYTTON, SIR E. BULWER, The Candid Man
338; Real Courage, 381.

GALT, The Rising of the Waters, 248.

GIFFORD, Gifford's Account of his Early Days,

304-

GREEN, Instinct, 354.

GUIZOT, Civilisation, 472.

HALL, BASIL, Struggling with Adversity,
140.

HALL, BISHOP, A Good Man's Day, 1; To all
Readers, 486.

HALL, ROBERT, Religious Knowledge, 252.
HALLAM, Criticism on Don Quixote, 287.
HERBERT, Sunday, 91; Lines on Flowers, 349.
HERRICK, Song for Candlemas Day, 40; Lines
on Daffodils, 348.

HERSCHEL, The Influence of Science on the
Wellbeing and Progress of Society, 6.
HOOD, The Dream of Eugene Aram, 208.
HOOKER, Nature's Law, 130.

350.

66.

MACAULAY, Dr Johnson and his Times

272; Bunyan, 420.

MASSINGER, Old Dramatic Poets, 20.

MILLER, HUGH, The Young Geologist, 369.
MILMAN, St Paul at Athens, 43.

MILTON, Lines on Flowers, 345; To the
Nightingale, 453.

MONTAIGNE, Of the Inconvenience of Great-
ness, 333.

NORTH, ROGER, Sir Dudley North, 488.

PASCAL, The Strange Contrarieties Discov
erable in Human Nature, 211.
PEACHAM, A Lesson for Pretenders, 261.
PEPYS, The Progress of the Great Plague of
London, 531.

PLUTARCH, Death of Cæsar, 360.
POPE, Imitation of Horace, 281.

HUME, David, Of the Jealousy of Trade, 113. Praed, W. M., The Red Fisherman, 224.
Hunt, Leigh, What is Poetry? 515.

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