| Incidents |
| A Near Tragedy | Fielding | 482 |
| An Incident before Sadowa: Birds Divulge Army Secrets | Newspaper | 483 |
| An Incident Related in a Letter | Robert Louis Stevenson | 484 |
| Students' Themes— |
| A Hero Dead | Ida Treat | 485 |
| My First Day at School | Máximo Kalaw | 487 |
| The Guinatan Prize | Leopoldo Faustino | 488 |
| Anecdotes |
| Coleridge's Retort | 493 |
| An Inevitable Misfortune | 494 |
| A Point Needing to be Settled | 494 |
| Patience | 494 |
| Preaching and Practice | 495 |
| Johnson's Dictionary | 495 |
| The Boy Kipling | 496 |
| Sir Godfrey Kneller | Spence | 496 |
| Pope and the Trader | Spence | 497 |
| The Capitan Municipal and the Jokers | José Feliciano | 497 |
| An Instance of Bamboo Spanish | Pilar Ejercito | 498 |
| Mr. Taft's Mistake | Amando Clements | 499 |
| Eye-Witness Accounts |
| The Portuguese Revolution | Newspaper | 503 |
| Student's Theme— |
| A Contrast | Adolfo Scheerer | 509 |
| Tales of Actual Adventures |
| The Bear Hunt | Tolstoy | 514 |
| Students' Themes— |
| Saladin and I Fight an Alupong | Cecilio Esquivel | 525 |
| I Get Two Beatings | Facundo Esquivel | 527 |
| The Fall of Juan | Gregorio Farrales | 528 |
| A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao | José Cariño | 529 |
| Travellers' Sketches |
| On the Way to Talavera | George Borrow | 534 |
| Smyrna—First Glimpses of the East Thackeray | 539 |
| Student's Theme— |
| A Trip from Curimao to Laoag | Fernando Maramag | 551 |
| Journals and Diaries |
| Extracts from Pepys' Diary | 562 |
| Students' Themes— |
| A Diary of Four Days | Facundo Esquivel | 564 |
| A Journal: Mock Heroic | Victoriano Yamzon | 567 |
| Autobiography and Memoirs |
| The Life of David Hume, Esq. | Written by himself | 575 |
| Student autobiography | Domingo Guanio | 585 |
| What I Remember of the Coming of the Americans | Leopoldo Faustino | 588 |
| Biographies |
| Queen Christina | Hawthorne | 595 |
| Students' Themes— |
| Juan Luna's Life | Dolores Asuncion | 604 |
| Life of Elizabeth Glade | Nellie Barrington | 607 |
| The Biography of a Traitor | Walfrido de Leon | 609 |
| Annals |
| The State of England, in Stephen's Reign | Peterborough Chronicle | 616 |
| Students' Themes— |
| Annals of Mangaldan | Translated by Bernabe Aquino | 621 |
| Annals of Pagsanjan | Dolores Zafra | 622 |
| Chronicles |
| Rivalry between Two Towns | Froissart | 630 |
| Students' Themes— |
| A Short History of Ilagan | Fernando Maramag | 636 |
| Some Incidents of the Rebellion of 1898: A True Relation | Marcelino Montemayor | 639 |
