LIST OF PLATES

WINDSOR CASTLE. (By Alfred W. Hunt, R.W.S.) Frontispiece

THE OPENING BY QUEEN VICTORIA OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN HYDE PARK. (By H. C. Selous.) To face p. 9

THE WRECK OF H.M.S. Birkenhead. (By Thomas M. Henry) " 14

SAVING THE COLOURS: THE GUARDS AT INKERMAN. (By Robert Gibb, R.S.A.) " 41

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA. (By R. Caton Woodville) " 62

"ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THEM, LEFT OF SIX HUNDRED." (By R. Caton Woodville) " 86

QUEEN VICTORIA REVIEWING THE CRIMEAN VETERANS (1854). (By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.) " 90

LORD RAGLAN VIEWING THE STORMING OF THE REDAN AT THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. (By R. Caton Woodville) " 126

MAP OF INDIA, 1856. " 182

THE FLIGHT FROM LUCKNOW. (By A. Solomon) " 217

THE SECOND RELIEF OF LUCKNOW, 1857. (By Thomas J. Barker) " 262

THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. (By Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A., D. C.L., etc.) " 287

QUEEN VICTORIA AT OSBORNE. (By Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.) " 326

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, 1863. (By G. H. Thomas) " 338

A COTTAGE BEDSIDE AT OSBORNE. (Gourlay Steell, R.S.A.) " 408

MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS HELENA. (By C. Magnussen) " 412

THE WHITE TOWER, TOWER OF LONDON. (By H. E. Tidmarsh) " 481

W. E. GLADSTONE. (By Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A.) " 500

REARING THE LION'S WHELPS. (By W. L. Wyllie, A.R.A.) " 544

THE THANKSGIVING SERVICE, 27TH OF FEBRUARY, 1872: THE PROCESSION AT LUDGATE HILL. (By N. Chevalier) " 602

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WINDSOR CASTLE.

FROM A WATER-COLOUR PAINTING BY ALFRED W. HUNT R.W.S. IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF BRITISH ART.

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THE CRYSTAL PALACE IN HYDE PARK, LONDON, 1851