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World's Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

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This is the tenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part X covers the second part of the history of England, from the Stuart Kings till the early 1900s. Also included are excerpts from the history of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as Irish and Welsh legends and Scottish ballads. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for The murder of King Duncan:

First Witch: Sandra Schmit / Second Witch: Devorah Allen / Third Witch: Monika M.C. / Macbeth: alanmapstone / Banquo: Tomas Peter / Ross: Nemo / Angus: Todd HW / Duncan: Jim Locke / Malcolm: SaraHale / Lady Macbeth: Eva Davis / Messenger: Adrian Stephens / Chief Justice: April6090 / Narrator: Sonia

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World's Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

Chapters

Elizabeth signing the death warrant of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Julius Schrader, German painter 1815-1900, painting frontispiece

England Part I: The Stuart Kings: Historical note

King James I and his goldsmith (between 1603 and 1624), by Sir Walter Scott

The gunpowder plot (1605), by David Hume

A charge with prince Rupert (1643), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor (1644), by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

The battle of Naseby by Obadiah Bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-with-links-of-iron, sergeant in Ireton's regiment (1645), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Charles I insulted by soldiers, by Paul Delaroche, French painter 1797-1856, painting p. 46

England Part II: The rule of Oliver Cromwell: Historical note

The trial and execution of king Charles I (1649), by Jacob Abbott

Cromwell in Whitehall, by Julius Schrader, Germany, 1815-1900, painting p. 60

A royalist description of Cromwell's men, by Samuel Butler

How Cromwell dissolved parliament (1653), by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot

Praise-God Barebone's parliament (1653), by Edward, Earl of Clarendon

Cromwell visiting Milton, by David Neal, American artist 1837, painting p. 74

England Part III: From the Restoration to the House of Hanover: Historical note

In the days of the plague (1665), by Daniel Defoe

The fall of ''King Monmouth'' (1685), by Charles Dickens

The song of the western men (1688), by Robert Stephen Hawker

James II receiving the news of the landing of the Prince of Orange, by Edward Mathew Ward, English artist 1816-1879, painting p. 92

A campaign under Marlborough, by William Makepeace Thackeray

The government in quest of a poet, by William Makepeace Thackeray

Sunday with Sir Roger, by Joseph Addison

England Part IV: England under the first three Georges: Historical note

The vicar of Bray, by Author unknown

The ''Bubbles'' of the reign of King George I (1720), by Charles Mackay

When George II became king, by William Makepeace Thackeray

The funeral of George II (1760), by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford

Dr. Johnson in the anteroom of Lord Chesterfield, by E. M. Ward, English artist 1816-1879, painting p. 136

William Pitt and the Stamp Act (1766), by George Bancroft

The quarrel of Squire Bull and his son (1775 to 1783), by James Kirke Paulding

A maid of honor at the court of George III (1786), by Madame d'Arblay

The royal visit to Oxford (1786), by Madame d'Arblay

England Part V: The Napoleonic wars: Historical note

The battle of the Baltic (101), by Thomas Campbell

Trafalgar (1805), by William C. Bennett

The burial of Sir John Moore (1809), by Charles Wolfe

Wellington's march from Quatre-Bras to Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts, English painter 1847, painting p. 174

Just before Waterloo (1815), by William Makepeace Thackeray

Waterloo (1815), by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

''Scotland forever !'', by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson), English artist 1844, painting p. 186

England Part VI: The last hundred years in England: Historical note

When Victoria became Queen (1837), by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The charge of the light brigade (1854), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Balaclava, by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson), English artist 1844, painting p. 194

Santa Filomena (1854-1856), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), by L. F. Jennings

Gladstone's fight for home rule (1893), from the Atlantic Monthly

The latest English revolution (1911), from the Outlook

The coronation of George V (1911), by Sydney Brooks

Scotland Part I: Ballads and legends of Early Scotland: Historical note

Legends of St. Columba (563 ?), by Adamnan, ninth abbot of the Ionian Monastery

The murder of King Duncan (1040), by William Shakespeare

The invasion of the Norsemen (1263), by Charles Mackay

Sir Patrick Spens, an old ballad

Scotland Part II: Two Scottish heroes: Historical note

The capture of William Wallace (1305), by Jane Porter

The coronation of Robert Bruce (1306), by Grace Aguilar

Bruce at Bannockburn (1314), by P. Hume Brown

Scots wha hae, by Robert Burns

Scotland Part III: To the death of Mary: Historical note

The bier-right (latter part of the fourteenth century), by Sir Walter Scott

How the Scots lived while James I was king (1422-1437), by P. Hume Brown

On the Field of Flodden (1513), by Sir Walter Scott

Edinburgh after Flodden Field (1513), by William E. Aytoun

''The goodman of Ballangiech'' (between 1513 and 1542), by Sir Walter Scott

John Knox preaching before the lords of the congregation, by Sir David Wilkie, English artist 1785-1841, painting p. 334

The flight of Mary, Queen of Scots, to England (1568), by Sir Walter Scott

Sacking a church in the time of John Knox, by John Prescott Knight, English artist 1803-1881, painting p. 336

The fate of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587), by Sir Walter Scott

Scotland Part IV: A century of unrest: Historical note

Why Jenny Geddes threw her stool at the dean, by ''Grace Greenwood'' (Sara J. Lippincott)

Gathering song of Donald the Black, by Sir Walter Scott

The execution of Montrose (1650), by William E. Aytoun

The burial march of Dundee (1689), by William E. Aytoun

The massacre of Glencoe (1692), by P. Hume Brown

A rescue at the battle of Prestonpans (1745), by Sir Walter Scott

The order of release, by Sir John Everett Millais, English painter 1829-1896, painting p. 388