FOREWORD: George Otto Trevelyan, An Indian Railway and The Gulf Between Us
EARLY DECADES: John Ruskin, Conclusion to Inaugural Lecture
Anthony Trollope, Aboriginals
John Beames, Civilian Memoirs
David Livingstone, the Meeting with Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley, The Meeting with Livingstone
Marcus Clarke, from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems and From the Clyde to Braidwood
Edwin Arnold, from The Light Of Asia
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Defence of Lucknow and Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition
Edward Willmot Blyden from The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans
Torus Dutt, A mon pere, Sonnet - Baugmaree
Sonnet - The Lotus
Or Cauarina Tree from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
John Seeley, from The Expansion of England
Isabella Bird, Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula
H. Rider Haggard, The Legend of Solomon's Mines
Sara Jeannette Duncan, Colonials and Literature
Rudyard Kipling, His Chance in Life, Christmas in India, Giffen's Debt, Mandalay, What the People Said
A.E. Housman, 1887
J. A. Froude from The English in the West Indies
J. J. Thomas from Froudacity
Flora Annie Steel, The Duties of the Mistress, Bopluchi, In the Permanent Way
G. A. Henty, A Pipe of Mystery;1880S AND 1890S CANADIAN POETRY: Isabella Valancy Crawford, War, Said the Canoe
Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, A Vagabond Song
Charles G. D. Roberts, The Pea-Fields, My Trees
Archibald Lampman, Late November, Among the Orchards
Duncan Campbell Scott, The Onondaga Madonna
THE BULLETIN WRITERS OF THE 1890S: A.B. ('Banjo') Paterson, Clancy of the Overflor, The Travelling Post Office, Old Australian Ways
Henry Lawson, the Drover's Wife
Barbara Bbaynton, the Tramp
A. G. Stephens, from Introductory to The Bulletin Story Book
FIN DE SIECLE: Swami Vivekananda, from The Ideal of a Universal Religion
Robert Louis Stevenson, The King of Apemans: The Royal Trader
Hugh Clifford, Up Country
Joseph Chamberlain, the True Conception of Empire
Olive Schreiner, from Trooper Halket of Mashonaland
Mary Kingsley, Black Ghosts
Joseph Conrad, An Outpost of Progress
William Watson, Jubilee Night in Westmorland
Rudyard Kipling, Recessional, The White Man's Burden
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1899-1902): Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Transvaal , Alfred Austin, To Arms!, Mrs Ernest Ames, An ABC for Baby Patriots
Thomas Hardy, Departure, A Christmas Ghost-Story, Drummer Hodge
W.E . Henley, Remonstrance, Pro Rege Nostro, The Choice of the Will from For England' Sake
A., E. Housman, Grenadier
Henry Newbolt, Vitai Lampada, Peace, April on Waggon Hill, Srahmandazi
William Watson, Rome and Another, The Inexorable Law, The True Imperialism from For England Rudyard Kiplin, The Lesson
J.A. Hobson, The Political Significance of Imperialism
LATER DECADES: Cornelia Sorabji, Love and Death
Lady Mary Anne Barker, from Colonial Servants
Sarojini Naidu, Village Song, Jumyaun to Zobeida, Ode to H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, To India from The Golden Threshold;Songs of My City Song of Radha the Milkmaid
An Anthem of Love from The Bird of Time
George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon, The British Empire
Sri Aurobindo, the Object of Passive Resistance, Charles Studart Parnell, Transiit, Non Periit, Hymn to the Mother, Revelation, Rebirth
Alice Perrin The Rise of Ram Din
James Joyce, Ireland at the Bar
Edmund Candler, from Kashi
Stephen Leacock, Back to the Bush
Dorothea Fairbridge, Pamela
J.E. Casely Hayford, As in a Glass Darkly and African Nationality from Ethiopia Unbound
Claude McKay, Oh General Jackson, the other day, I have a News from Walter Jekyll's Jamaican Song and Story
Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture, Old England, My Native Land, My Home from Songs of Jamaica, The Apple-Woman's Complain, from Constab Ballads, If We Must Die
Rabindranath Tagore, Poems from Gitanjali
William Butler Yeats, Introduction to Gitanjali
B. E. Baughan, Pipi on the Prowl
Katherine Mansfield, How Pearl Button was Kidnapped, To Stanislwaw Wyspianski, The Wind Blows
Solomon T. Plaatje, One Night with the Fugitives
AFTERWORD: Leonard Woolf, Pearls and Swine: Explanatory Notes, Biographies
Appendix
Publishers' Acknowledgements
Index.