Chapter II: Introduction: , by Sir Walter Besant, F.S.A. 1

ALFRED AS KING, by Frederic Harrison, Hon. Fellow of Wadham
College, Oxford 39

ALFRED AS A RELIGIOUS MAN AND AN EDUCATIONALIST, by the Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bristol 69

ALFRED AS A WARRIOR, by Charles Oman, M.A., F.S.A., Fellow of
All Souls, Oxford 115

ALFRED AS A GEOGRAPHER, by Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., President
of the Royal Geographical Society 149

ALFRED AS A WRITER, by Rev. John Earle, Professor of Anglo-Saxon,
Oxford 169

ENGLISH LAW BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST, by Sir Frederick Pollock,
Bart., Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence 207

ALFRED AND THE ARTS, by Rev. W. J. Loftie, F.S.A. 241

INDEX 259