Contents

• An Indian Railway and The Gulf Between Us, from The Competition Wallah (1864) / George Otto Trevelyan
• Conclusion to Inaugural Lecture (1870) / John Ruskin
• Aboriginals (1873) / Anthony Trollope
• Civilian Memoirs (1873) / John Beames
• The Meeting with Stanley (1874) / David Livingstone
• The Meeting with Livingstone (1886) / Henry Morton Stanley
• from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Poems (1876) / Marcus Clarke
• From the Clyde to Braidwood (1877) / ‘Australie’ (Emily Manning)
• from The Light of Asia (1879) / Edwin Arnold
• The Defence of Lucknow (1880) / Alfred Tennyson
• Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen (1886) / Alfred Tennyson
• from The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans (1881) / Edward Wilmot Blyden
• A mon Pere (1876) / Toru Dutt
• Sonnet - Baugmaree; Sonnet - The Lotus; Our Casuarina Tree; from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) / Toru Dutt
• from The Expansion of England (1883) / John Seeley
• Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula (1883) / Isabella Bird
• The Legend of Solomon’s Mines (1885) / H. Rider Haggard
• Colonials and Literature (1886) / Sara Jeannette Duncan
• His Chance in Life (1888) / Rudyard Kipling
• Christmas in India (1888) / Rudyard Kipling
• Giffen’s Debt (1886) / Rudyard Kipling
• Mandalay (1892) / Rudyard Kipling
• What the People Said (1887) / Rudyard Kipling
• 1887 (1896) / A. E. Housman
• from The English in the West Indies (1888) / J. A. Froude
• from Froudacity (1889) / J. J. Thomas
• The Duties of the Mistress (1889) / Flora Annie Steel
• Bopoluchi (1884) / Flora Annie Steel
• In the Permanent Way (1898) / Flora Annie Steel
• A Pipe of Mystery (1890) / G. A. Henty
• War (1879) / Isabella Valancy Crawford
• Said the Canoe (1905) / Isabella Valancy Crawford
• Low Tide on Grand Pre (1893) / Bliss Carman
• A Vagabond Song (1896) / Bliss Carman
• The Pea -Fields (1893) / Charles G. D. Roberts
• My Trees (1893) / Charles G. D. Roberts
• Late November (1888) / Archibald Lampman
• Among the Orchards (1899) / Archibald Lampman
• The Onondaga Madonna (1898) / Duncan Campbell Scott
• Clancy of the Overflow (1895) / A. B. (’Banjo) Paterson
• The Travelling Post Office (1895) / A. B. (’Banjo’) Paterson
• Old Australian Ways (1902) / A. B. (’Banjo’) Paterson
• The Drover’s Wife (1894) / Henry Lawson
• The Tramp (1901) / Barbara Baynton
• from Introductory to The Bulletin Story Book (1901) / A. G. Stephens
• from The Ideal of a Universal Religion (1896) / Swami Vivekananda
• The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader (1896) / Robert Louis Stevenson
• Up Country (1897) / Hugh Clifford
• The True Conception of Empire (1897) / Joseph Chamberlain
• from Trooper Halket of Mashonaland (1897) / Olive Schreiner
• Black Ghosts (1897) / Mary Kingsley
• An Outpost of Progress (1898) / Joseph Conrad
• Jubilee Night in Westmorland (1898) / William Watson
• Recessional (1897) / Rudyard Kipling
• The White Man’s Burden (1899) / Rudyard Kipling
• The Transvaal (1899) / Algernon Charles Swinburne
• To Arms! (1899) / Alfred Austin
• An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899) / Mrs. Ernest Ames
• Departure (1901) / Thomas Hardy
• A Christmas Ghost-Story (1899) / Thomas Hardy
• Drummer Hodge (1899) / Thomas Hardy
• Remonstrance; Pro Rege Nostro; The Choice of the Will; from For England’s Sake (1900) / W. E. Henley
• Grenadier (composed c.1900; 1922) / A. E. Housman
• Vitai Lampada (1897) / Henry Newbolt
• Peace (1902) / Henry Newbolt
• April on Waggon Hill (1903) / Henry Newbolt
• Srahmandazi (1902) / Henry Newbolt
• Rome and Another; The Inexorable Law; The True Imperialism; from For England (1903) / William Watson
• The Lesson (1903) / Rudyard Kipling
• The Political Significance of Imperialism (1902) / J. A. Hobson
• Love and Death (1901) / Cornelia Sorabji
• from Colonial Servants (1904) / Mary Anne Barker
• Village-Song; Humayun to Zobeida; Ode to H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad; To India; from The Golden Threshold (1905) / Sarojini Naidu - - Songs of my City; Song of Radha the Milkmaid; An Anthem of Love; from The Bird of Time(1912) / Sarojini Naidu
• The British Empire (1906) / George Nathaniel and Marquess Curzon
• The Object of Passive Resistance (1907) / Sri Aurobindo
• Charles Stewart Parnell, 1891 (1895) / Sri Aurobindo
• Transiit, Non Periit (1909) / Sri Aurobindo - - Hymn to the Mother: Bandemataram (1909) / Sri Aurobindo
• Revelation (1915) / Sri Aurobindo
• Rebirth (1915) / Sri Aurobindo
• The Rise of Ram Din (1906) / Alice Perrin
• Ireland at the Bar (1907) / James Joyce
• from Kashi (1910) / Edmund Candler
• Back to the Bush (1910) / Stephen Leacock
• Pamela (1911) / Dorothea Fairbridge
• As in a Glass Darkly and African Nationality; from Ethiopia Unbound (1911) / J. E. Casely Hayford
• Oh General Jackson!; The Other Day; I Have a News; from Walter Jekyll’s Jamaican Song and Story (1907) / Claude McKay
• Cudjoe Fresh From de Lecture; Old England; My Native Land, My Home; from Songs of Jamaican (1912) / Claude McKay
• The Apple-Woman’s Complaint, from Constab Ballads (1912) / Claude McKay
• If We Must Die (1918) / Claude McKay
• Poems from Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1912) / Rabindranath Tagore
• Introduction to Gitanjali (1912) / William Butler Yeats
• Pipi on the Prowl (1913) / B. E. Baughan
• How Pearl Button was Kidnapped (1912) / Katherine Mansfield
• To Stanislaw Wyspianski (1910) / Katherine Mansfield
• The Wind Blows (1915) / Katherine Mansfield
• One Night with the Fugitives (1916) / Solomon T. Plaatje
• Pearls and Swine (composed c.1913; 1921) / Leonard Woolf
• App. ‘L’Irlanda alla sbarra’: the original Italian text of Joyce’s ‘Ireland at the Bar’ (pp. 336-8)