LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Connoisseur Edition
VOL. III.
THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
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CRAWFORD H. TOY, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL.D., L.H.D., Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH.D., L.H.D., Professor of History and Political Science, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N.J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D., President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A.M., PH.D., Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N.Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D., Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT.D., Professor of the Romance Languages, TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M.A., Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English and History, UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH.D., Professor of Greek and Latin Literature, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D., United States Commissioner of Education, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D.C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Literature in the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D.C.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
LIVED BERTHOLD AUERBACH--Continued: 1812-1882 The First False Step ('On the Heights') The New Home and the Old One (same) The Court Physician's Philosophy (same) In Countess Irma's Diary (same)
ÉMILE AUGIER 1820-1889 A Conversation with a Purpose ('Giboyer's Boy') A Severe Young Judge ('The Adventuress') A Contented Idler ('M. Poirier's Son-in-Law') Feelings of an Artist (same) A Contest of Wills ('The Fourchambaults')
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (by Samuel Hart) 354-430 The Godly Sorrow that Worketh Repentance ('The Confessions') Consolation (same) The Foes of the City ('The City of God') The Praise of God (same) A Prayer ('The Trinity')
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS A.D. 121-180 Reflections
JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817 An Offer of Marriage ('Pride and Prejudice') Mother and Daughter (same) A Letter of Condolence (same) A Well-Matched Sister and Brother ('Northanger Abbey') Family Doctors ('Emma') Family Training ('Mansfield Park') Private Theatricals (same) Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom (same)
AVERROËS 1126-1198
THE AVESTA (by A.V. Williams Jackson) Psalm of Zoroaster Prayer for Knowledge The Angel of Divine Obedience To the Fire The Goddess of the Waters Guardian Spirits An Ancient Sindbad The Wise Man Invocation to Rain Prayer for Healing Fragment
AVICEBRON 1028-?1058 On Matter and Form ('The Fountain of Life')
ROBERT AYTOUN 1570-1638 Inconstancy Upbraided Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns's Adaptation)
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN 1813-1865 Burial March of Dundee ('Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers') Execution of Montrose (same) The Broken Pitcher ('Bon Gaultier Ballads') Sonnet to Britain. "By the Duke of Wellington" (same) A Ball in the Upper Circles ('The Modern Endymion') A Highland Tramp ('Norman Sinclair')
MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO 1798-1866 A Happy Childhood ('My Recollections') The Priesthood (same) My First Venture in Romance (same)
BABER (by Edward S. Holden) 1482-1530 From Baber's 'Memoirs'
BABRIUS First Century A.D. The North Wind and the Sun Jupiter and the Monkey The Mouse that Fell into the Pot The Fox and the Grapes The Carter and Hercules The Young Cocks The Arab and the Camel The Nightingale and the Swallow The Husbandman and the stork The Pine The Woman and Her Maid-Servants The Lamp The Tortoise and the Hare
FRANCIS BACON (by Charlton T. Lewis) 1561-1626 Of Truth ('Essays') Of Revenge (same) Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same) Of Travel (same) Of Friendship (same) Defects of the Universities ('The Advancement of Learning') To My Lord Treasurer Burghley In Praise of Knowledge To the Lord Chancellor To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount Charge to Justice Hutton A Prayer, or Psalm From the 'Apophthegms' Translation of the 137th Psalm The World's a Bubble
WALTER BAGEHOT (by Forrest Morgan) 1826-1877 The Virtues of Stupidity ('Letters on the French Coup d'État') Review Writing ('The First Edinburgh Reviewers') Lord Eldon (same) Taste ('Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning') Causes of the Sterility of Literature ('Shakespeare') The Search for Happiness ('William Cowper') On Early Reading ('Edward Gibbon') The Cavaliers ('Thomas Babington Macaulay') Morality and Fear ('Bishop Butler') The Tyranny of Convention ('Sir Robert Peel') How to Be an Influential Politician ('Bolingbroke') Conditions of Cabinet Government ('The English Constitution') Why Early Societies could not be Free ('Physics and Politics') Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times (same) Origin of Deposit Banking ('Lombard Street')
JENS BAGGESEN 1764-1826 A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth') Philosophy on the Heath (same) There was a Time when I was Very Little
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY 1816- From "Festus": Life: The Passing-Bell; Thoughts; Dreams; Chorus of the Saved
JOANNA BAILLIE 1762-1851 Woo'd and Married and A' It Was on a Morn when We were Thrang Fy, Let Us A' to the Wedding The Weary Pund o' Tow From 'De Montfort' To Mrs. Siddons A Scotch Song Song, 'Poverty Parts Good Company' The Kitten
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD 1832- The Battle of Ivry ('The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre')
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER 1821-1893 Hunting in Abyssinia ('The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia') The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza')
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1848- The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)
THE BALLAD (by F.B. Gummere) Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne The Hunting of the Cheviot Johnie Cock Sir Patrick Spens The Bonny Earl of Murray Mary Hamilton Bonnie George Campbell Bessie Bell and Mary Gray The Three Ravens Lord Randal Edward The Twa Brothers Babylon Childe Maurice The Wife of Usher's Well Sweet William's Ghost
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850 The Meeting in the Convent ('The Duchess of Langeais') An Episode Under the Terror A Passion in the Desert The Napoleon of the People ('The Country Doctor')
GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott) 1800-1891 The Beginnings of Virginia ('History of the United States') Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same) King Philip's War (same) The New Netherland (same) Franklin (same)
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