FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

LONDON :

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS-STREET,

COVENT-GARDEN.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

......

How they brought the Good

News from Ghent to Aix ...... Robert Browning

1

The Character of Queen Elizabeth David Hume...

3

To the Nightingale

John Keats..

6

Home for the Holidays.. Eliza Cook...

The Battle of Agincourt Michael Drayton

11

A Scene from Rienzi.....

Miss Mitford.

15

Her Eyes are Wild

William Wordsworth 19

The Punch-Bowl

0. W. Holmes

23

Melting Moments

New Orleans Picayune.. 26

The Champion's Banner J. M. Brindley

29

The Lost Hunter

Alfred B. Street...

31

The Confessions of St. Valentine Mary Eliza Rogers

35

Of Boldness

Lord Bacon

38

The Inchcape Rock

R. Southey...

41

The Ocean

Lord Byron

43

December

Mrs. Wm. Hey....

45

Died at the Station-House James B. Tomalin

46

How Mrs. Griddles went to see

the Illuminations

E. L. Blanchard

47

Shakspeare.......

Ralph Waldo Emerson...... 51

Sir Turlough, or the Church-

William Carleton

63

Scene from Venice Preserved

Thomas Otway

68

The Wig

Charles Dibdin the Younger 76

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

79

From India

W. C. Bennett

97

The Wind on a Winter Night... Anonymous...

99

A Parental Ode to my Son T. Hood.

100

Labour and Recreation..... “Friends in Council” 102

Modern Logic

Anonymous......

103

The Dead

Ludovic Colquhoun

105

Progress

Nicholas Michell

108

The Fairy Thorn

Samuel Ferguson, M.R.I.A. 109

A Scene from Douglas

Rev. John Home

112

Columbus's Voyage to America Dr. Robertson

116

Annabel Lee ...

E. A. Poe

124

Horatius Keeps the Bridge Lord Macaulay

125

yard Bride

LONDON :

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS-STREET,

COVENT-GARDEN.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

29

35
38

How they brought the Good

News from Ghent to Aix Robert Browning

1

The Character of Queen Elizabeth David Hume......

3

To the Nightingale

John Keats....

Home for the Holidays..... ....... Eliza Cook.........

The Battle of Agincourt

Michael Drayton

11

A Scene from Rienzi........ Miss Mitford ....

15

Her Eyes are Wild

William Wordsworth 19

The Punch-Bowl

0. W. Holmes

23

Melting Moments

New Orleans Picayune.. 26

The Champion's Banner

J. M. Brindley

The Lost Hunter

Alfred B. Street.

31

The Confessions of St. Valentine Mary Eliza Rogers

Of Boldness

Lord Bacon

The Inchcape Rock

R. Southey...

41

The Ocean

Lord Byron

43

December

Mrs. Wm. Hey....

45

Died at the Station-House James B. Tomalin

46

How Mrs. Griddles went to see

the Illuminations

E. L. Blanchard

47

Shakspeare.....

Ralph JValdo Emerson ...... 51

Sir Turlough, or the Church-

yard Bride.

William Carleton

63

Scene from Venice Preserved Thomas Otway

68

The Wig

Charles Dibdin the Younger 76

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

79

From India

W. C. Bennett

97

The Wind on a Winter Night... Anonymous..

99

A Parental Ode to my Son T. Hood.

100

Labour and Recreation............. "Friends in Council" 102

Modern Logic

Anonymous...

103

The Dead

Ludovic Colquhoun

105

Progress

Nicholas Michell

108

The Fairy Thorn

Samuel Ferguson, M.R.I.A. 109

A Scene from Douglas

Rev. John Home

112

Columbus's Voyage to America Dr. Robertson

116

Annabel Lee

E. A. Poe

124

Horatius Keeps the Bridge Lord Macaulay

125

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