NARRATIVES OF ACTUAL EVENTS

Incidents

A Near TragedyFielding[482]
An Incident before Sadowa: Birds Divulge Army SecretsNewspaper[483]
An Incident Related in a LetterRobert Louis Stevenson[484]
Students' Themes
A Hero DeadIda Treat[485]
My First Day at SchoolMáximo Kalaw[487]
The Guinatan PrizeLeopoldo Faustino[488]

Anecdotes

Coleridge's Retort[493]
An Inevitable Misfortune[494]
A Point Needing to be Settled[494]
Patience[494]
Preaching and Practice[495]
Johnson's Dictionary[495]
The Boy Kipling[496]
Sir Godfrey KnellerSpence[496]
Pope and the TraderSpence[497]
The Capitan Municipal and theJokersJosé Feliciano[497]
An Instance of Bamboo SpanishPilar Ejercito[498]
Mr. Taft's MistakeAmando Clements[499]

Eye-Witness Accounts

The Portuguese RevolutionNewspaper[503]
Student's Theme
A ContrastAdolfo Scheerer[509]

Tales of Actual Adventures

The Bear HuntTolstoy[514]
Students' Themes
Saladin and I Fight an AlupongCecilio Esquivel[525]
I Get Two BeatingsFacundo Esquivel[527]
The Fall of JuanGregorio Farrales[528]
A Narrow Escape from a Wild CarabaoJosé Cariño[529]

Travellers' Sketches

On the Way to TalaveraGeorge Borrow[534]
Smyrna—First Glimpses of the East Thackeray[539]
Student's Theme
A Trip from Curimao to LaoagFernando Maramag[551]

Journals and Diaries

Extracts from Pepys' Diary [562]
Students' Themes
A Diary of Four DaysFacundo Esquivel[564]
A Journal: Mock HeroicVictoriano Yamzon[567]

Autobiography and Memoirs

The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by himself[575]
Student autobiographyDomingo Guanio[585]
What I Remember of the Coming ofthe AmericansLeopoldo Faustino[588]

Biographies

Queen ChristinaHawthorne[595]
Students' Themes
Juan Luna's LifeDolores Asuncion[604]
Life of Elizabeth GladeNellie Barrington[607]
The Biography of a TraitorWalfrido de Leon[609]

Annals

The State of England, in Stephen'sReignPeterborough Chronicle[616]
Students' Themes
Annals of MangaldanTranslated by BernabeAquino[621]
Annals of PagsanjanDolores Zafra[622]

Chronicles

Rivalry between Two TownsFroissart[630]
Students' Themes
A Short History of IlaganFernando Maramag[636]
Some Incidents of the Rebellion of1898: A True RelationMarcelino Montemayor[639]