I. Scenes and characters in American history: Thomas Hutchinson, last royal governor of Massachusetts. Charles Lee, soldier of fortune. Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist party. Thomas Jefferson, the conservative reformer. James Madison, the constructive stateman. Andrew Jackson, frontiersman and soldier Andrew Jackson and American democracy seventy years ago. Harrison, Tyler, and the Whig coalition ("Tippecanoe and Tyler too") Daniel Webster and the sentiment of union --II. In favourite fields. Old and new ways of treating history. John Milton. The fall of New France. Connecticut's influence on the federal Constitution. The deeper significance of the Boston tea party. Reminiscences of Huxley. Herbert Spencer's service to religion. John Tyndall. Evolution and the present age. Koshchei the deathless