FOR

GERMAN PROSE COMPOSITION,

OR

Selections from Modern English Writers,

WITH

GRAMMATICAL NOTES, IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS OF DIFFICULT
PASSAGES, AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

BY

DR. BUCHHEIM,

PROFESSOR OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN KING'S COLLEGE,
LONDON; EXAMINER IN GERMAN TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

LONDON

R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

III.

I. THE DEFENCE OF A FORD

II.-SCHILLER'S FLIGHT FROM STUTTGART (Thomas

(Walter Scott)

13

17

19

(Macaulay)

30

X.-A SELF-DUBBED MESSENGER

XI.-DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA.

XII.-WORSE THAN HIS REPUTATION (W. G. Palgrave)

(Capt. Hozier)

33

(Motley) 34

36

XIII.-SPEEDY PROMOTION

(Sir Edw. Cust)

39

XIV. GOETHE AT THE AGE OF TWENTY (G. H. Lewes)

41

XV. THE PILGRIMS.

PAGE

(G. Bancroft)

44

XVI.

SLAVE-MAKING INSTINCT OF ANTS . (Darwin) 47

XVII. THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA

XVIII. THE APOSTLE OF THE GOTHS.

XIX. THE PRAIRIE

XX. CHIVALRY IN SPAIN.

XXI.-CHARLES THE GREAT

XXII.-LOVE OF FLOWERS

XXIII.-LIFE AMONG THE BEDOUINS

SIR SIDNEY SMITH AT BATH.

(Kinglake) 49

(Gibbon) 53

(E. Dicey)

55

(Prescott)

57

XXIX.—BEFORE THE BATTLE OF KÖNIGGRÄTZ (Capt.

Hozier)

XXX.-A DISPUTED BOUNDARY (Dr. W. B. Carpenter)

XXXI.

THOMAS CARLYLE TO GOETHE (A Letter)

XXXIII. THE HISTORY OF SCIENCES

XXXIV. THE WARTBURG

(Prof. Max Müller) 91

. (Dean Stanley)

94

XXXII. A STURDY SQUIRE

(Miss A. Strickland)

PART III.

I. A LETTER FROM CHARLOTTE BRONTE.

II.-WILDBAD

(Wilkie Collins)

III. DEATH OF JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND (Prof. H.

IV. THE FIORDS OF NORWAY. (Miss Martineau)

V.-HELLENIC TRAITS IN MODERN PERSIA (The

Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone)

VI.-A NIGHT MARCH

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99

102

103

106

(Motley) 109

VII. THE STUDY OF NATURE (The Rev. C. Kingsley) 112

X.-A BALL AT THE BASTILLE (The Rev. Prof. J.

XXX.-A WORD FOR THE GERMANS (From the Pall-