apter I of "The Stones of Venice")

II St. Mark's at Venice.
(From Vol. II of "The Stones of Venice")

III Of Water.
(From Vol. II, Section V, of "Modern Painters")

GEORGE ELIOT--(Born in 1819, died in 1880.)

At the Hall Farm.
(From "Adam Bede")

HERBERT SPENCER--(Born in 1820, died in 1904.)

I The Origin of Professional Occupations.
(From Volume III of "The Principles of Sociology")

II Self-Dependence and Paternalism.
(From the "Essays, Moral, Political and Esthetic")

III The Ornamental and the Useful in Education.
(From "Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical")

IV Reminiscences of His Boyhood.
(From Part I, Chapter II, of the "Autobiography")

V A Tribute to E. L. Youmans.
(From Part VII of the "Autobiography")

VI Why He Never Married.
(From Part XII of the "Autobiography")

HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE--(Born in 1821, died in 1862.)

I The Isolation of Spain.
(From Vol. II, Chapter VIII, of the "History of Civilization
in England")

II George III and the Elder Pitt.
(From Vol. I, Chapter VII, of the "History of Civilization
in England")

MATTHEW ARNOLD--(Born in 1822, died in 1888.)

The Motive for Culture.
(From "Culture and Anarchy")

EDWARD A. FREEMAN--(Born in 1823, died in 1892.)

The Death of William the Conqueror.
(From "The History of the Norman Conquest")

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY--(Born in 1825, died in 1895.)

On a Piece of Chalk.
(From "Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews")

FREDERIC HARRISON--(Born in 1831.)

The Great Books of the World.
(From an address on "The Choice of Books")

JOHN RICHARD GREEN--(Born in 1837, died in 1883.)

George Washington.
(From Book IV, Chapter II, of the "History of the English
People")

JOHN MORLEY--(Born in 1838.)

Voltaire as an Author and as a Man of Action.
(From "Voltaire")

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON--(Born in 1850, died in 1894.)

I Francis Villon's Terrors.
(From "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon")

II The Lantern Bearers.