CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| [Duke of Berwick, ] | [7] |
| [Captivity of Babylon,] | [45] |
| [The Second House of Burgundy,] | [75] |
| [Two Jaquelines,] | [115] |
| [Hoche,] | [152] |
| [An Interesting Ancestor of Queen Victoria,] | [185] |
| [John Wiclif,] | [201] |
PREFACE
Once upon a time I was a member of that arch-erudite body, the Faculty of Williams College, and I took my turn in putting forth lectures tending or pretending to edification. I was not to the manner born, and had indulged even to indigestion, in the reading of history. These ebullitions are what came of that intemperance.
The manuscripts were lying harmless in a bureau drawer, under gynæcian strata, when, last summer, a near and rummaging relative, a printer, unearthed them, read them, and asked leave to publish them. I refused; but after conventional hesitation, I—still vowing I would ne’er consent—consented.