Beeton's Historical Romances, Daring Deeds, and Animal Stories. Illustrated, etc

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THE torture. . W. I>l<_ _-___. BEETON'S HISTORICAL ROMANCES, § .tring Jttbs, AND ANIMAL STORIES. ILLUSTRATED BT SEPARATE PLATES, AND NUMEROUS WOODCUTS INSERTED m THE TEXT. EDITED BY S. O. BEETQX-- LONDON: WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE. PATERNOSTER BOW. INDEX. PAGE TACE Antony Waymouth ; or, The Gentlemen Adventurers. By W. H. G. Kingston. King Lion7. CHAP. 1 38 II 43 III. 128 IV 131 V 255 VI. * . . . . . .260 VII 32S VIII 331 IX. ...... 355 X 4S5 XI. . . . . 4SS XII 561 XIII 565 XIV 56S XV 668 XVI 672 XVII 744 XVIII. 747 XIX 785 XX 788 XXI .901 XXII. . . •... .904 XXIII 1009 XXIV 1015 -HAP. I. The Meeting of the Friends . 28 II. The Sailing of the Squadron . 118 III. The Commencement of the Fight 220 IV. A Storm and its Effects . . 312 V. Raymond's Gallantry . . . 401 VI. The Shipwreck . . . .502 VII.

Caught in a Net . . . .572 VIII. The Lion Pursues her Course . (157 IX. The Lion Sails On 753 X. Scurvy still Rages on Board the Lion 861 XI. A Scene in Old England . . 952 XII. The Esperanza is Pursued by the Portugais .... 1060 Historical Stories. By W. H. D. Adams. Story of the Spanish Armada, The I. The Gathering of the Storm . 60 II. The Storm Bursts . . .145 III. Fair Weather for England . 209 Story of the Dutch Wars of the Commonwealth, The . . . .211 Victories of Blake and Monk, The . 348 Miscellaneous. Story of the Dutch Wars of Charles II. , The— Aboard the Silver Eagle . . . 588 About Organs 477 About Our Highland Regiments . 321 About the Boys of Old . . ... 266 Art of Bushranging, The. By Capt. Drayson, R.A. .... 75 Ascent of Mister Punch . . . 617 Balloons . . ■ . ■ . . .140 BeforeourBreakfast under the Banian 391 Blowpipe, The, or Air-gun of the Macoushie Indians .... 55 I. Frbm 1665 to 1668 . . .454 II.

The Second War, a.d. 1672 . 519 Story of the Battle off Cape La Hogue 556 Story of Benbow and Du Casse . 721 Story of the Attack upon Porto Bello 724 Story of the Attack upon Carthagena 842 Story of Admiral Byng . . . 881 Story of Rodney and De Grasse . 936 Story of the Siege and Relief of Gibraltar INDEX. IV FACE FAGE Miscellaneous. Runnymede and Lincoln Fair. By Blue Bonnets over the Border, The . 241 J. G. Edgar. Brave Boy, A. By Sir Lascelles Wraxall, Bart 995 CHAP. I, A Squire and a Citizen . 1 II. The Icinglas ... 4 Bullet-proof Apparition, The . . 1057 Cricket : the Old School and the III. An Unbidden Guest . . 7 IV. Christmas .... 12 New 811 V. The Tower of London . 14 Curse of Sherborne, The . . . 1007 VI. King John .... 81 Dumb Alphabet, A New . . .192 A Man of the Forest . . 85 Ecole Polytechnique .... 305 VII, VIII.