The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 23 British Isles Part 1: England, Wales Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS ENGLAND I. THE STUART KINGS
Sir Walter Scott
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson From "Studies in History and Letters."
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I A�D HIS GOLDSMITH From "The Fortunes of Nigel."
KING }AMES
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
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A CHARGE WITH PRINCE RUPERT
SIR NICHOLAS AT MARSTON MOOR THE BATTLE OF NASEBY •
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II. THE RULE OF OLIVER CROMWELL THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF KING CHARLES I
Jacob Abbott
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Samuel Butler
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Fran{ois Pierre G11illaume Guizot From "The Life of Oliver Cromwell."
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From "History of Charles the First." A ROYALIST DESCRIPTION OF CROMWELL'S MEN
From "Hudibras." How CROMWELL DISSOLVED
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Edward, Earl of Clarendon From "A History of the Great Rebellion."
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CONTENTS THE FA LL OF "KING MONMOUTH " . . . . Charles Di c kens 90 From" A Child's History of England." TuE SoNG OF THE WESTERN MEN • . Robert Stephen Hawker 97 A CA MPA IGN UNDER MARLBOROUGH William Makepeace Tha c keray 101 From "The History of Henry Esmond." THE GOVERNMENT IN QUEST OF A POET William Makepeace Thac keray 111 From "The History of Henry Esmond." SUNDA Y WITH SIR ROGER . • . • • . • Joseph Addison 124 From "The Spectator." IV. ENGLAND UNDER THE FIRST THREE GEORGES THEA VICA R OF BR Y . . • . . . Unknown 131 THE "BUBBLES,, OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE I Charles Mac kay 134 From "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions." WHEN GEORGE II BECA ME KING
William Makepeace Thac keray From "The History of Henry Esmond." THE FUNERA L OF GEORGE II . . . II orace lValpole From "The Letters of Horace Walpole." George Banc roft WILLIA M PITT A ND THE STA MP ACT . . From "History of the United States." TnE QUA RREL OF SQUIRE BULL A ND ms SoN James Kirke Paulding From "History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan." A MA ID OF HONOR A T THE COURT OF GEORGE III Madame D'Arblay THE ROYA L VISIT TO OXFORD . . . . . Madame D'Arblay From "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay."
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V. THE NAPOLEONIC WARS THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC Thomas Camp�ell 175 TRA FA LGA R . . . . . . • . • . • . William C. Bennett 178 THE BURIA L OF SIR ]OIIN MOORE . . . . Charles Wolfe 183 JusT BEFORE WATERLOO William J,fakepeace Thac keray 187 From "Vanity Fair." Douglas Brooke Wlzeelton Sladen 195 WATERLOO . . • . • 11
CONTENTS VI. THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS IN ENGLAND WHEN VICTORIA BECAME QUEEN •
Benjamin Disraeli
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THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Alfred, Lord Trnnyso,i SANTA FILOMENA • • • • • . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow BENJAMIN DISRAELI • . . • • • L. F. Jennings GLADSTONE'S FIGHT FOR HOME RULE
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TuE LATEST ENGLISH REVOLUTION
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From "Sybil."
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From "The Outlook."
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Sydney Brooks
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Bessie Raynor Parkes
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THE CORONATION OF GEORGE V
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WALES I. LEGENDS OF WALES KING ARTHUR . . . . • • . THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG
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From the Mabinogion. Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest.
BETH G E LERT; OR THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND
William Robert Spencer • • • • An old song From "The,Songs of Wales," by Ceiriog Hughes and Brinley Richards.
THE WEARING OF THE LEEK
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IL STORIES OF THE WELSH REBELLIONS How THE WELSH KEPT THE CHRISTMAS OF II 15
From "Pabo, the Priest."
"WHEN THE EIGHTEEN FELL" • THE REBELLION OF OWEN GLYNDWR
From "Flame-Bearers of Welsh History."
Sabine Baring-Got4ld 265 . Owen Rlzoscomyl 273 . Owen Rhoscomyl 281
. A,1 old war-song From "The Songs of Wales," by Ceiriog Hughes and Brinley Richards. How A WELSHMAN BECAME KING OF ENGLAND Owen Rlzoscomyl From "Flame-Bearers of Welsh History." THE MARCH OF THE MEN OF HARLECH
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I II. SCENES OF WELSH LIFE .
THE EISTEDDFOD
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