GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON-STREET.

NEW YORK: 18, BEEKMAN-STREET.

1855.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

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Influence of Science

Death of the Son of Gaston de Foix

Scenes from the City Madam'

Sack of Magdeburg

Tale of Terror

The Opening Year

A Good Man's Day

Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey

Dejection: An Ode

Apophthegms.-I.

Speech at Plymouth, in 1823.

Sir Roger de Coverley.-I.

The Barometer

Sunday

History of Perkin Warbeck

The Ancient Mansion .

The Spider and the Bee

The Jealousy of Trade.

Complaint of the Decay of Beggars

The First Man

Nature's Law

The Good Lord Clifford

Struggling with Adversity

Omens

The Present Age.

Classical Education

Sir Alexander Ball

Measures and Offices of Friendship

The British Hirundines

The Voluble Lady

May

Progress of Mechanical Arts

Decision of Character

Dream of Eugene Aram

Contrarieties in Human Nature

Account of the Great Fire of London

The Red Fisherman

Sir Roger de Coverley.-11.

An Irish Village

The Rising of the Waters

Religious Knowledge

Herschel

Froissart

Massinger

Harte

Courier

Various

Bishop Hall

Landor

Coleridge

Various

Canning

Addison

Arnott

G. Herbert

Lord Bacon

Cralbe

Swift

D. Hume

C. Lamb

Buffon

Picoker

Wordsworth

Basil Hall

Sir H. Davy

Channing

Arnold

Coleridge

Jer. Taylor

G. White

Jane Austen

Various

D. Webster

J. Foster

Hood

Pascal

Evelyn

Praed

Addison

Various

Carleton

Galt

R. Hall

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Ballads