CHAPTER II: FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST, 1066, TO CHAUCER'S DEATH, 1400 [Illustration: THE DEATH OF HAROLD AT HASTINGS.

[Illustration: WHAT MADEVILLE SAW.

" [Illustration: TREUTHE'S PILGRYME ATTE PLOW.

[Illustration: GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

" [Illustration: PILGRIMS LEAVING THE TABARD INN.

" [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF LINES DESCRIBING THE FRANKLYN.

[Illustration: THE SQUIRE.]

" [Illustration: MORRIS DANCERS.From a Manuscript of Chaucer's Time.

[Illustration: CROMWELL DICTATING TO MILTON DISPATCHES TO THE KING OF FRANCE CONCERNING THE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.

" [Illustration: THOMAS FULLER.]

[Illustration: JEREMY TAYLOR.] VII.

" JOHN BUNYAN, 1628-1688 [Illustration: JOHN BUNYAN.

[Illustration: BEDFORD BRIDGE, SHOWING GATES AND JAIL.

" JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674 [Illustration: JOHN MILTON.

[Illustration: VISIT OF MILTON TO THE BLIND GALILEO AT THE VILLA D'ARCETRI NEAR FLORENCE IN 1638.

[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF MILTON'S SIGNATURE IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF HIS BLINDNESS.From his application to wed Elizabeth Minshull.

[Illustration: MILTON DICTATING PARADISE LOST TO HIS DAUGHTERS.

Johnson complimented him "for having shewn to all, who should hereafter attempt the study of our ancient authors, the way to success, by directing them to the perusal of the books which their author had read;" a method of illustration which since, certainly, has not wanted imitators.

In the monotonous sound of a single horn, you have a precise illustration of the effect of most people's minds.

[Illustration: PapersPrepare with care the "tabular views" of the town, village, city and county, as follows] CHAPTER VIII.

For an illustration of the method of securing private property for public use, see page 18.

He then read the following resolution, which we insert here as an illustration of the universal sympathy in the objects of our mission.

[Illustration: "THERE WAS ONE BOOK WHICH KEITH CARRIED AROUND WITH HIM."] "Think how grand he must have looked, Jonesy," cried Keith, "and I am to be dressed exactly like him when I am knighted in the tableau."

[Illustration: "THE LITTLE COLONEL HAD BEEN LOWERED INTO A DEEP FEED-BIN."

[Illustration: VIRGINIA AND THE CALF.]