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

 has oucceded in doing bo 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 SOBOLARS. 

 Vol. I.— from THE COMINfl OF THB 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 Conqueror — The 

 Kings of the Golden Broom — Richard Lion-Heart— King John and Magna Charta — Earl 

 Simon the Righteous — Edward the Englishman — Bannockbum 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.— Dovei Castle— The Pharos, Dover— Norsemen— Homes of oot 

 Ancestors — Chateau Gaillard — Tomb of a Crusader (Qervase Alard), Winchelaea 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.— THB STRUGGLE FOE POWER AND GREATER ENGLAND.- la. 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 Clive— 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 CavaUer— Oliver Cromwell— The 



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

 Orange in Bngland—Marlborough— Gibraltar— Chatham— Fight between the Centurvm and 

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

 Napoleon Bonaparte— Nelson— H.M.S. Viotary, Portsmouth Harbour— Duke of WeUmgton 

 — Napoleon on board the Bdleroplion. 



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

 save ■ "F 'B 'Storiea of the EngUsh' was written for mv little daughter Susan. The 

 child 18 quite fascinated by it, but equaUy bo are all the ^own-up fnendB to whom 

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

 nieht vrtth 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 ahnost the same worfs 

 about the account of Marlborough's campaigns. V. 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 raxe thing, a judicul mind. This, I think, gives her work a quite peculiar 

 valne." 



