CONTENTS

Part I,

Great Britain.—France.—Tours and its Castle.—Pau.—Geneva and its Lake.— Russia. —Austria.— Napoleon I.—Prussia.— Dover Castle.—Mozart.— Christiania. —Jerusalem.—Reding’s Speech to his Soldiers.—Ruins of Palmyra.—Battle of Lodi.—The Convent of the Great St. Bernard.—Gustavus the Great.—Constantinople.—Alfred the Great.— Ruins of Troy.—Last Moments of Charles I.—Napoleon crossing the Great St. Bernard.—Voltaire.—Athens.—Jeanne d’Arc.—Description of the Horse.—The Hunting of the Chamois.—Battle of the Pyramids.—On Glory and Ambition.—The Rhine.—Elizabeth, Queen of England.—Cologne.—

emagne.— Neilson.

Parr II.

Charles XII.—Military Education among the Romans.—Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen.— Ferdinand and Isabella.— Portrait of a true Christian.—Admiral Lord Exmouth.—Bombardment of Algiers.— Peter the Great.—Napoleon at Aus. terlitz.—Frederic I1.—Turenne.—Henry IV.—Greatness.—Ruins of Carthage. — Constantine, captured. — Algiers. — History of Fort l'Empereur. — Capture of- Ghuznee.—The Fountain of Vaucluse.—Remarks on the utility of Languages.— Benjamin Franklin. — Letter of Lord Chesterfield. — St. Petersburg. — Dialogue between the King of Prussia and Gellert.

Part III.

Mount Albula, in the Alps.— William Tell and Gesler.—Motion of our Globe.— Abd-el-Kader.—Tunis.— The last Days of theGrand Army.—Pascal.—he Takin of Constantinople by the Turks.—Ancient Customs of the Gauls.—Louis XIV. and his Age.—Newton.— Washington.— Battle of Sobraon.--Letter of Lord Chesterfield.—On Education.— William Pitt.—Influence of the French Language.—A Family in Distress.—The Spell of Wealth.—A Military Sight before Sebastopol. —Scenes from the *‘ School for Scandal.”’—Scenes from a ‘* Trip to Scarborough.”