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Contents
SECTION IIFICTION | 43 |
MISCELLANEOUS | 58 |
ORATORY | 76 |
VIIL Curran on Freedom | 89 |
XIIL Gladstone on the Affairs of Greece | 99 |
POETRY | 107 |
Ancient Greece | 113 |
VIIL The Plain of Marathon | 120 |
The Fate of Blacgregor | 155 |
The Convict Ship | 174 |
The Field of Waterloo | 187 |
The Day of the Funeral | 193 |
XXXVIL The Launching of the Ship | 199 |
DOMESTIC AND NATIONAL | 215 |
SACRED AND MORAL | 224 |
Alls for the Best | 232 |
Marco Bozzaris | 126 |
The Avenging Child | 133 |
Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson | 145 |
MISCELLANEOUS | 245 |
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