COPYRIGHT, 1905,
By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI


CONTENTS

VOLUME XI

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An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, [xiii]
CHARLES F. HORNE
Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River (a.d. 1609), [1]
HENRY R. CLEVELAND
Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy
The Telescope and Its Discoveries (a.d. 1610), [14]
SIR OLIVER LODGE
The Beginning of British Power in India (a.d. 1612), [30]
BECKLES WILLSON
The Dutch Settlement of New York (a.d. 1614), [44]
DAVID T. VALENTINE
Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood (a.d. 1616), [50]
THOMAS H. HUXLEY
The "Defenestration" at Prague (a.d. 1618)
The Thirty Years War, [62]
SAMUEL R. GARDINER
CHARLES F. HORNE
The First American Legislature (a.d. 1619), [76]
CHARLES CAMPBELL
Introduction of Negroes into Virginia (a.d. 1619)
Spread of Slavery and Cultivation of Tobacco, [81]
CHARLES CAMPBELL
JOHN M. LUDLOW
English Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth (a.d. 1620), [93]
JOHN S. BARRY
The Birth of Modern Scientific Methods (a.d. 1620)
Bacon and Descartes, [116]
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Siege of La Rochelle (a.d. 1627)
Richelieu Rules France, [129]
ANDREW D. WHITE
The Great Puritan Exodus to New England
The Founding of Boston (a.d. 1630), [153]
JOHN G. PALFREY
Triumph and Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Luetzen (a.d. 1632), [174]
BENJAMIN CHAPMAN
Recantation of Galileo (a.d. 1633), [184]
SIR OLIVER LODGE
The Educational Reform of Comenius (a.d. 1638), [192]
SIMON SOMERVILLE LAURIE
The First Written Free Constitution in the World (a.d. 1639)
Earliest Union among American Colonies (a.d. 1643), [205]
GIDEON H. HOLLISTER
JOHN MARSHALL
Abolition of the Court of Star-chamber (a.d. 1641)
The Popular Revolt against Charles I, [215]
HENRY HALLAM
LORD MACAULAY
The Founding of Montreal (a.d. 1642), [232]
ALFRED SANDHAM
Presbyterianism Established
Meeting of the Westminster Assembly (a.d. 1643), [238]
DAVID MASSON
Masaniello's Revolt at Naples (a.d. 1647), [253]
ALFRED VON REUMONT
The Peace of Westphalia (a.d. 1648)
The War of the Fronde, [285]
ARTHUR HASSALL
Religious Toleration Proclaimed in Maryland (a.d. 1649), [303]
G. L. DAVIS
The Great Civil War in England
The Execution of Charles I (a.d. 1649), [311]
LORD MACAULAY
CHARLES KNIGHT
Cromwell's Campaign in Ireland (a.d. 1649), [335]
FREDERIC HARRISON
Molière Creates Modern Comedy (a.d. 1659), [347]
HENRI VAN LAUN
Cromwell's Rule in England
The Restoration (a.d. 1660), [357]
THOMAS CARLYLE
JOHN RICHARD GREEN
SAMUEL PEPYS
Universal Chronology (a.d. 1609-1660), [387]
JOHN RUDD


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