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

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VOL. IX.

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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

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.

ALCEE 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. IX

LIVED PAGE

ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO 1781-1838 3503

The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl') From 'Woman's Love and Life'

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING 1780-1842 3513

The Passion for Power ('The Life and Character of Napoleon Bonaparte') The Causes of War ('Discourse before the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts') Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')

GEORGE CHAPMAN 1559?-1634 3523

Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey) The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death ('Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron')

FRANCOIS RENE AUGUSTE CHATEAUBRIAND 1768-1848 3531

Christianity Vindicated ('The Genius of Christianity') Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')

THOMAS CHATTERTON 1752-1770 3539

Final Chorus from 'Goddwyn' The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife ('The Bristowe Tragedie') Mynstrelles Songe An Excelente Balade of Charitie The Resignation

GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13--?-1400 3551

BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY

Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales' From the Knight's Tale From the Wife of Bath's Tale From the Pardoner's Tale The Nun's Priest's Tale Truth--Ballade of Good Counsel

ANDRE CHENIER 1762-1794 3601

BY KATHARINE HILLARD

The Young Captive Ode

VICTOR CHERBULIEZ 1829- 3609

The Silent Duel ('Samuel Brohl and Company') Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)

LORD CHESTERFIELD 1694-1773 3625

From 'Letters to His Son': Concerning Manners; The Control of One's Countenance; Dress as an Index to Character; Some Remarks on Good Breeding The Choice of a Vocation

THE LITERATURE OF CHINA 3629

BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS

Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)

RUFUS CHOATE 1799-1859 3649

BY ALBERT STICKNEY

The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address at Ipswich Centennial, 1834) The New-Englander's Character (same) Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge Law School) Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College)

ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM 347-407 3665

BY JOHN MALONE

That Real Wealth is from Within On Encouragement During Adversity ('Letters to Olympias') Concerning the Statutes (Homily)

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO 106-43 B.C. 3675

BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON

Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry ('Oration for the Poet Archias') Honors Proposed for the Dead Statesman Sulpicius (Ninth Philippic) Old Friends Better than New ('Dialogue on Friendship') Honored Old Age ('Dialogue on Old Age') Death is Welcome to the Old (same) Great Orators and Their Training ('Dialogue on Oratory') Letters: To Tiro; To Atticus Sulpicius Consoles Cicero after His Daughter Tullia's Death Cicero's Reply to Sulpicius A Homesick Exile Cicero's Vacillation in the Civil War Cicero's Correspondents: Caesar to Cicero; Caesar to Cicero; Pompey to Cicero; Caelius in Rome to Cicero in Cilicia; Matins to Cicero The Dream of Scipio

THE CID 1045?-1099 3725

BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH

From 'The Poem of My Cid': Leaving Burgos; Farewell to His Wife at San Pedro de Cardena; Battle Scene; The Challenges; Conclusion

EARL OF CLARENDON (Edward Hyde) 1609-1674 3737

The Character of Lord Falkland

MARCUS A. H. CLARKE 1846-1881 3745

How a Penal System can Work ('His Natural Life') The Valley of the Shadow of Death (same)

MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS 1740-1815 3756

Speculations on New-Year's Day (The Wandsbecker Bote) Rhine Wine Winter Night Song

HENRY CLAY 1777-1852 3761

BY JOHN R. PROCTER

Public Spirit in Politics (Speech in 1849) On the Greek Struggle for Independence (Speech in 1824) South-American Independence as Related to the United States (Speech in 1818) From the Valedictory to the Senate in 1842 From the Lexington 'Speech on Retirement to Private Life'

CLEANTHES 331-232 B.C. 3784

Hymn to Zeus

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (Mark Twain) 1835- 3787

The Child of Calamity ('Life on the Mississippi') A Steamboat Landing at a Small Town (same) The High River: and a Phantom Pilot (same) An Enchanting River Scene (same) The Lightning Pilot (same) An Expedition against Ogres ('A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court') The True Prince and the Feigned One ('The Prince and the Pauper')

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1819-1861 3821

BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON

There is No God The Latest Decalogue To the Unknown God Easter Day--Naples, 1849 It Fortifies My Soul to Know Say Not, The Struggle Naught Availeth Come Back As Ships Becalmed The Unknown Course The Gondola The Poet's Place in Life On Keeping within One's Proper Sphere ('The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich') Consider It Again

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772-1834 3843

BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY

Kubla Khan The Albatross ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner') Time, Real and Imaginary Dejection: An Ode The Three Treasures To a Gentleman Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire The Pains of Sleep Song, by Glyeine Youth and Age Phantom or Fact

WILLIAM COLLINS 1721-1759 3871

How Sleep the Brave The Passions To Evening Ode on the Death of Thomson

WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS 1824-1889 3879

The Sleep-Walking ('The Moonstone') Count Fosco ('The Woman in White')

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