COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE COLONIAL PRESS.

9-14-36 m. & Mrs. W. C.

Johnson Gift

CONTENTS

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WILLIAM PITT

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On His Refusal to Negotiate With Bonaparte.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH

Discourse Before the Literary Society of Bombay.

GEORGE CANNING

3

55

57

71

On Granting Aid to Portugal.

73

DANIEL O'CONNELL

93

On the Rights of Catholics.

95

Protest Against Sentence as a Traitor..

Discourse.

The Immortality of the Soul.

ROBERT EMMET

LORD BROUGHAM (HENRY PETER BROUGHAM).

Inaugural

THOMAS CHALMERS

God's Sympathy for Man..

LORD PALMERSTON (HENRY JOHN TEMPLE)

Arbitration

SIR ROBERT PEEL

Speech at Tamworth.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL

The Church of Ireland.

THE EARL OF DERBY (EDWARD HENRY SMITH STANLEY)

Life and Culture....

JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN.

RICHARD COBDEN

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109

117

119

139

141

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169

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231

On the Effects of Protection..

233

LORD LYTTON (EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER LYTTON)... 257

DEAN STANLEY (ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY).

Funeral Oration on Lord Palmerston..

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415

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LORD SALISBURY (ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE CECIL).

CANON FARRAR (FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR)

Funeral Oration on General Grant..

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The Substance of Sermons.

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

The Future of the British Empire.

LORD ROSEBERY (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE)

Oration on Robert Burns........

LORD CHURCHILL (RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER CHURCHILL)..

Desertion of General Gordon......

HENRY DRUMMOND

The Greatest Thing in the World..

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ILLUSTRATIONS

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

Photogravure from a photograph

FAUNUS

Photo-engraving from a marble bust

EARLY VENETIAN PRINTING

Fac-simile of a Roman Missal, printed at Venice in 1520

PAGE FROM A BOOK OF HOURS.

Fac-simile example of Printing and Engraving in the Fifteenth Century

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