Contents.


PROSE.
PAGE
An Adventure with a Bear[92]
A few words about the Egyptians, Ancient and Modern[142]
” ”Soluble Glass[221]
A Mysterious Adventure[135]
A Touch with the Brigands[19]
A Visit to the Royal Polytechnic Institution[205]
Boiling Springs[224]
Cardinal Wolsey[83]
Christmas Day at the Diggings[200]
Exploits in the Desert[9]
Glastonbury Abbey, with the Story of King Arthur[217]
Gustavus Vasa[30]
Jack and Jill[243]
Juvenile Day at the Hall[171]
Manufacture of Ropes[188]
Oranges and Lemons; or, the Bells of St. Clement’s[71]
Passage of the Desert[212]
San Rosalia[196]
Sledging[7]
Something about Boiling Springs[224]
”” the Chinese[116]
Something more about the Chinese[234]
” about Lighthouses[97]
””the Old Abbeys and Castles of England[61]
””Ships and Shipping[178]
””the Turkish Provinces[55]
Story of the American Sea Serpent[227]
Story of an Anchorite[1]
The Boy Bachelor; or, Something about Cardinal Wolsey[83]
The Two Middies; or, a Fearful Encounter with a Shark[259]
The Town Pump: a Story of the Cow with an Iron Tail[34]
The Youthful Nelson[42]
The Old Abbeys and Castles of England[104]
The Queen at Spithead: Review of the Fleet[110]
The Rain; or, the Child, the Fairy, and the Magic Bird[156]
The Regimental Goat[153]
POETRY.
The Electric Telegraph[169]
The Owl[202]
The Sailor’s Grave[5]
The Willow Tree[152]