Incidents |
| A Near Tragedy | Fielding | [482] |
| An Incident before Sadowa: Birds Divulge Army Secrets | Newspaper | [483] |
| An Incident Related in a Letter | Robert Louis Stevenson | [484] |
| Students' Themes— |
| A Hero Dead | Ida Treat | [485] |
| My First Day at School | Máximo Kalaw | [487] |
| The Guinatan Prize | Leopoldo 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 Kneller | Spence | [496] |
| Pope and the Trader | Spence | [497] |
| The Capitan Municipal and theJokers | José Feliciano | [497] |
| An Instance of Bamboo Spanish | Pilar Ejercito | [498] |
| Mr. Taft's Mistake | Amando Clements | [499] |
Eye-Witness Accounts |
| The Portuguese Revolution | Newspaper | [503] |
| Student's Theme— |
| A Contrast | Adolfo Scheerer | [509] |
Tales of Actual Adventures |
| The Bear Hunt | Tolstoy | [514] |
| Students' Themes— |
| Saladin and I Fight an Alupong | Cecilio Esquivel | [525] |
| I Get Two Beatings | Facundo Esquivel | [527] |
| The Fall of Juan | Gregorio Farrales | [528] |
| A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao | José Cariño | [529] |
Travellers' Sketches |
| On the Way to Talavera | George Borrow | [534] |
| Smyrna—First Glimpses of the East Thackeray | [539] |
| Student's Theme— |
| A Trip from Curimao to Laoag | Fernando Maramag | [551] |
Journals and Diaries |
| Extracts from Pepys' Diary | [562] |
| Students' Themes— |
| A Diary of Four Days | Facundo Esquivel | [564] |
| A Journal: Mock Heroic | Victoriano Yamzon | [567] |
Autobiography and Memoirs |
| The Life of David Hume, Esq. | Written by himself | [575] |
| Student autobiography | Domingo Guanio | [585] |
| What I Remember of the Coming ofthe Americans | Leopoldo Faustino | [588] |
Biographies |
| Queen Christina | Hawthorne | [595] |
| Students' Themes— |
| Juan Luna's Life | Dolores Asuncion | [604] |
| Life of Elizabeth Glade | Nellie Barrington | [607] |
| The Biography of a Traitor | Walfrido de Leon | [609] |
Annals |
| The State of England, in Stephen'sReign | Peterborough Chronicle | [616] |
| Students' Themes— |
| Annals of Mangaldan | Translated by BernabeAquino | [621] |
| Annals of Pagsanjan | Dolores Zafra | [622] |
Chronicles |
| Rivalry between Two Towns | Froissart | [630] |
| Students' Themes— |
| A Short History of Ilagan | Fernando Maramag | [636] |
| Some Incidents of the Rebellion of1898: A True Relation | Marcelino Montemayor | [639] |