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"If history can be given a form likely to make it palatable to young folks, "F" 

 has succeded in doing so in these ' Stories of the English.' It is no exaggeration to 

 say that the book represents not only a masterpiece in literature for children, 

 but a work of no slight value for the national good." Scotsman 



STORIES OF THE ENGLISH 

 FOR SCHOOLS, 



By F. 



FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS. 

 VOL. I. FROM THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH TO THE ARMADA. Is. 6d. 



CONTENTS. The coming of the White Horse The coming of the Cross The Fight 

 with the Raven Alfred the Great Edward the Confessor William the Conquerer The 

 Kings of the Golden Broom Richard Lion-HeartKing John and Magna Charta Earl 

 Simon the Rif hteous Edward the Englishman Bannockburn and Berkeley The Lions 

 and the Lilies A King dethroned Prince Hal King Harry The Wars of the Roses- 

 Henry VIII. and the Revolt from Rome Edward VI. and Mary Elizabeth, the Great 

 Queen : (1) English Adventurers and the Cruise of the Pelican ; (2) Mary, Queen of Scots ; 

 (3) Papist Plots and the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew ; (4) The Armada. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. Dover Castle The Pharos, Dover Norsemen Homes of our 

 Ancestors Chateau Gaillard Tomb of a Crusader (Gervase Alard), Winchelsea Church- 

 Carnarvon Castle Coronation Chair, Westminster Abbey Knights of the Fourteenth 

 Century Edward the Third The Battle of Cressy Tomb of Edward the Third, West- 

 minster Abbey Tomb of the Black Prince, Canterbury Cathedral Richard II. on his 

 voyage to Ireland Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey Henry V. with Military 

 Attendants Henry V. addressing his Army Joan of Arc The Crowning of Henry VII. 

 on Bosworth Field Henry VIII. Wolsey Sir Thomas More taking leave of his Daughter 

 Calais during the Sixteenth Century Queen Elizabeth The Armada Drake Mary, 

 Queen of Scots Drake playing Bowls with his Captains Sir Walter Raleigh. 



FOR SENIOR SCHOLARS. 

 VOL. II. THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER AND, GREATER ENGLAND. Is. 6d. 



CONTENTS. The First of the Stuarts The Struggle for Power The Puritan Tyranny 

 The Second Struggle for Power : Charles II. The Revolution The Fight with France : 

 The Dutch King Queen Anne and Marlborough Greater England The Story of Anson 

 The Story of Wolfe The Story of Captain Cook The Story of Olive The War of American 

 Independence The great French War The Story of Nelson The Story of the Great Duke 

 The End of the Stories. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. James I. Bacon Charles I. A Cavalier Oliver Cromwell The 

 Great Fire of London The Seven Bishops going to the Tower Landing of William of 

 Orange in England Marlborough Gibraltar Chatham Fight between the Centurion and 

 the Manila Ship General Wolfe The Death of Captain Cook Washington Pitt- 

 Napoleon Bonaparte Nelson H. M.S. Victory, Portsmouth Harbour Duke of Wellington 

 Napoleon on board the Bellerophon. 



Moira O'Neill, Author of ' Songs of the Glen of Antrim,' writing to Mr Blackwood, 

 says : " F.'s ' Stories of the English ' was written for my little daughter Susan. The 

 child is quite fascinated by it, but equally so are all the grown-up friends to whom 

 I have shown it. I lent it once to a sailor uncle, and he sat up to all hours of that 

 night with it, and afterwards told me that he could hardly believe that such an 

 account of Nelson's great battles had been written by a woman, because it was 

 technically accurate. And a soldier friend and critic used almost the same words 

 about the account of Marlborough's campaigns. F. is the most patient and faithful 

 student of history that I know. She has such a strong literary sense that she simply 

 could not write anything except in a literary form, and combined with it she has 

 that rare thing, a judicial mind. This, I think, gives her work a quite peculiar 

 value." 



