PAGE 1 ......... The Death of the Conqueror...... Charles Knight The Pilgrims and the Peas Dr. John Wolcott A Scene from the Honeymoon... John Tobin Frederick Locker ............ 25 Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's How Pleasant it is to have Money Arthur Hugh Clough...... 59 To Parents and Guardians Frederick Locker..... 81 Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Green...... G. Linnæus Banks The Factory Girl's Holiday. J. E. Carpenter 94 A Marriage in High Life. John George Watts...... 99 - The Image-breakers of the Ne- The Forging of the Anchor Samuel Ferguson, Q.C. 116 Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel Leigh Hunt.... The Enchanted Net .... Francis Edward Smedley 132 The Fall of Marie Antoinette... Edmund Burke..... 139 Alexander's Feast; or, the Power Back from the Holidays George Bennett Adams and Trulliber... Henry Fielding The Old Man in the Wood. Anonymous Rev. Charles Kingsley...., 170 A. Scene from the tyr of Very Rev. H. H. Milman The Wreck of the Hesperus...... H. W. Longfellow 195 The Lutist and the Nightingale John Ford 2 The Poet and the Rose... John Gay..... The Death of the First-Born...... Alaric A. T A Bachelor's Complaint............ H.G [If we were asked to proclaim the man who has done most for the cause of popular education and the enlightenment of the middle and working classes, we should not hesitate to name Charles Knight; and it is not only from his character as a projector and producer of cheap and good literature, but as an elegant and perspicuous writer of history, a careful and conscientious editor, and an antiquary, that his high and enduring position in English literature has been established. Mr. Knight was born at Windsor, in 1791, his father being a bookseller in the royal borough. . In 1811, in partnership with his father, he established the " Windsor and Eton Express. In 1820, 1821, and 1822, he edited, in connexion with the late Mr. Locker, Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital (and father of Fredk. Locker the poet), " The Plain Dealer," the first attempt to produce cheap literature of a high character. In 1822 Mr. Knight removed to London, and started, at Pall Mall East, "Knight's Quarterly Magazine,” to which Macaulay was a contributor. In 1827 he becaine associated with the Useful Knowledge Society, and edited many of its publications. Magazine," which he commenced in 1832, was continued for eleven years; and in 1838 " The Penny Cyclopædia” made its first appearance. During the course of this work Mr. Knight expended upon it forty thousand pounds in original contributions. This, in addition to his own valuable matter. Among his other works his “Shakspeare, ," "Pictorial History of England,” “London," and the series of “Shilling Volumes,”—bear testimony to his genius and industry. " The Penny |
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