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Ringrose and His Buccaneers 1
David Crockett 29
David Crockett in the Creek War 37
America Samuel Francis Smith 60
The Retreat of CortÉs William H. Prescott 63
Battle of Ivry Thomas Babington Macaulay 76
The Battle of Thermopylae 81
Marco Bozzaris Fitz-Greene Halleck 90
A Descent Into the Maelstrom Edgar Allan Poe 95
PÈre Marquette Jared Sparks 121
The Fall of the Alamo 141
The Alhambra Washington Irving 153
HervÉ Riel Robert Browning 168
The Battle of Waterloo Lord Byron 176
How They Took the Gold-Train Charles Kingsley 180
A Bed of Nettles Grant Allen 209
Washington Irving 216
The Knickerbocker History of New York Washington Irving 224
The Battle of Trafalgar Robert Southey 284
Casabianca Felicia Hemans 313
The Romance of the Swan’s Nest Elizabeth Barrett Browning 315
The Cotter’s Saturday Night Robert Burns 319
Charles and Mary Lamb 328
Dream Children: A Revery Charles Lamb 335
For Classification of Selections, see General Index, at end of Volume X

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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