What is a golden deed? -- The stories of Alcestis and Antigone -- The cup of water -- How one man has saved a host -- The pass of Thermopylae -- The rock of the Capital -- The two friends of Syracuse -- The devotion of the Decii -- Regulus -- The brave brethren of Judah -- The chief of the Arverni -- Withstanding the monarch in his wrath -- The last fight in the Coliseum -- The shepherd girl of Nanterre -- Leo the slave -- The battle of the Blackwater -- Guzman El Bueno -- Faithful till death -- What is better than slaying a dragon -- The keys of Calais -- The Battle of Sempach -- The constant prince -- The carnival of Perth -- The crown of St. Stephen -- George the triller -- Sir Thomas More's daughter -- Under Ivan the Terrible -- Fort St. Elmo -- The voluntary convict -- The housewives of Lowenburg -- Fathers and sons -- The soldiers in the snow -- Gunpowder perils -- Heroes of the plague -- The second of September -- The Vendeans.

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