Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Charles Dudley Warner

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Author: Various Editor: Charles Dudley Warner Release Date: April 7, 2008 [EBook #25015] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE - VOLUME 11 *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE OLDEST LOMBARDIC MANUSCRIPT. Facsimile from an Edict of King Rotharis, A.D. 643. Translation. LXX If anybody of another the great toe from the foot severs, he pays solidi sixteen. LXXI If the second toe from the foot he severs, he pays solidi six. LXXII If the third toe he severs, he pays solidi three. LXXIII If the fourth toe he severs, he pays solidi three. LXXIIII If the fifth toe he severs, he pays solidi two. LXXV Upon all these damages or injuries, above described, which among men exempt occurred, therefore, a heavier punishment, have we placed than our ancestors, that the Faida (feud, vendetta), that is, the hatred, after the receiving the above described (ssta—suprascripta) punishment, may cease, and, moreover, not be required, nor craftiness [Pg i] 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. XI. 1896 [Pg ii] THE ADVISORY COUNCIL CRAWFORD H. TOY A.M., LL.D., , Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass. [Pg iii] 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. [Pg v] TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL. XI RICHARD HENRY DANA, SENIOR — 1787-1879 The Island ('The Buccaneer') The Doom of Lee (same) Paul and Abel ('Paul Felton') RICHARD HENRY DANA, JUNIOR — 1815-1882 A Dry Gale ('Two Years Before the Mast') Every-Day Sea Life (same) A Start; and Parting Company (same) DANTE — 1265-1321 BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON From 'The New Life': Beginning of Love The First Salutation of His Lady Her Praise Her Loveliness Her Death The Anniversary of Her Death The Hope to Speak More Worthily of Her From the 'Banquet': Consolation of Philosophy Desire of the Soul The Noble Soul at the End of Life From the 'Divine Comedy': Hell—Entrance on the Journey Through the Eternal World Hell—Punishment of Carnal Sinners Purgatory—The Final Purgation Purgatory—Meeting with His Lady in the Earthly Paradise Paradise—The Final Vision JAMES DARMESTETER — 1849-1894 Ernest Renan ('Selected Essays') Judaism (same) CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN — 1809-1882 BY E. RAY LANKESTER Impressions of Travel ('A Naturalist's Voyage') Genesis of 'The Origin of Species' ('Life and Letters') Curious Atrophy of Æsthetic Taste (same) Private Memorandum concerning His Little Daughter (same) Religious Views (same) Letters: To Miss Julia Wedgwood; To J. D. Hooker; To T. H. Huxley; To E. Ray Lankester; To J. D. Hooker The Struggle for Existence ('Origin of Species') Geometrical Ratio of Increase (same) Of the Nature of the Checks to Increase (same) Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence (same) Of Natural Selection: or the Survival of the Fittest (same) Progressive Change Compared with Independent Creation (same) Creative Design ('Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication') Origin of the Human Species ('The Descent of Man') ALPHONSE DAUDET — 1840BY AUGUSTIN FILON The Two Tartarins Of "Mental Mirage," As Distinguished From Lying The Death Of The Dauphin Jack Is Invited To Take Up A "Profession" The City Of Iron And Fire The Wrath Of A Queen> MADAME DU DEFFAND (Marie de Vichy-Chamrond) — 1697-1780 Letters: To The Duchesse De Choiseul; To Mr. Crawford; To Horace Walpole Portrait Of Horace Walpole DANIEL DEFOE — 1661-1731 BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON From 'Robinson Crusoe': Crusoe's Shipwreck; Crusoe Makes a New Home; A Footprint From 'History of the Plague in London': Superstitious Fears of the People How Quacks and Impositors Preyed on the Fears of the People The People Are Quarantined in Their Houses Moral Effects of the Plague Terrible Scenes in the Streets The Plague Due to Natural Causes Spread of the Plague through Necessities of the Poor [Pg vii] From 'Colonel Jack': Colonel Jack and Captain Jack Escape Arrest Colonel Jack Finds Captain Jack Hard to Manage Colonel Jack's First Wife Is Not Disposed to be Economical The Devil Does Not Concern Himself with Petty Matters ('The Modern History of the Devil') Defoe Addresses His Public ('An Appeal to Honor and Justice') Engaging a Maid-Servant ('Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business') The Devil ('The True-Born Englishman') There Is a God ('The Storm') EDUARD DOUWES DEKKER — 1820-1887 Multatuli's Last Words to the Reader ('Max Havelaar') Idyll Of Saïdjah And Adinda ('Max Havelaar') THOMAS DEKKER — 1570?-1637? From 'The Gul's Horne Booke': How a Gallant Should Behave Himself in Powles Walk; Sleep Praise of Fortune ('Old Fortunatus') Content ('Patient Grissil') Rustic Song ('The Sun's Darling') Lullaby ('Patient Grissil') JEAN FRANÇOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE — 1793-1843 BY FREDERIC LOLIÉE Confession of Louis XI. DEMOSTHENES — 384-322 B.C. BY ROBERT SHARP The Third Philippic Invective Against License of Speech Justification of His Patriotic Policy THOMAS DE QUINCEY — 1785-1859 Charles Lamb ('Biographical Essays') Despair ('Confessions of an English Opium-Eater') The Dead Sister (same) Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow (same) Savannah-La-Mar (same) The Bishop of Beauvais and Joan of Arc ('Miscellaneous Essays') PAUL DÉROULÈDE — 1848The Harvest ('Chants du Paysan') In Good Quarters ('Poèmes Militaires') "Good Fighting" (same) Last Wishes (same) RENÉ DESCARTES — 1596-1650 Of Certain Principles of Elementary Logical Thought ('Discourse on Method') An Elementary Method of Inquiry (same) The Idea of God ('Meditations') PAUL DESJARDINS The Present Duty Conversion of the Church Two Impressions ('Notes Contemporaines') SIR AUBREY DE VERE — 1788-1846 The Crusaders [Pg viii] The Children Band ('The Crusaders') The Rock of Cashel The Right Use of Prayer The Church Sonnet [Pg ix] BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO — 1498-1593 From the 'True History of the Conquest of Mexico': Capture of Guatimotzin; Mortality at the Conquest of Mexico; Cortés; Of Divine Aid in the Battle of Santa Maria de la Vitoria; Cortés Destroys Certain Idols CHARLES DIBDIN — 1745-1814 Sea Song Song: The Heart of a Tar Poor Jack Tom Bowling CHARLES DICKENS — 1812-1870 BY LAURENCE HUTTON The One Thing Needful ('Hard Times') The Boy at Mugby ('Mugby Junction') Burning of Newgate ('Barnaby Rudge') Monseigneur ('A Tale of Two Cities') The Ivy Green [Pg xi] FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME XI The Oldest Lombardic Manuscript (Colored Plate) Dante Alighieri (Portrait) Charles Robert Darwin (Portrait) "The Ape-Man" (Photogravure) Alphonse Daudet (Portrait) Daniel Defoe (Portrait) "Robinson Crusoe" (Facsimile) Demosthenes (Portrait) Thomas De Quincey (Portrait) René Descartes (Portrait) Charles Dickens (Portrait) "Gadshill" (Photogravure) VIGNETTE PORTRAITS Richard Henry Dana Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Madame du Deffand Jean F. C. Delavigne Paul Déroulède Sir Aubrey De Vere Charles Dibdin [Pg 4285] RICHARD HENRY DANA, SENIOR (1787-1879) ICHARD H ENRY DANA the elder, although he died less than twenty years in 1787, in DANA the elder, although he died less than twenty years in 1787, in Cambridge, four years after Washington Irving. He came of a distinguished and scholarly family: his father had been minister to Russia during the Revolution, and was afterwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts; through his mother he was descended from Anne Bradstreet. At the age of ten he went to Newport to live with his maternal grandfather, William Ellery, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and remained until he entered Harvard. The wild rock-bound coast scenery impressed him deeply, Richard H. and ever after the sea was one of his ruling passions. Only one familiar with all the moods of Dana the ocean could have written 'The Buccaneer'. After quitting college he studied law, and was admitted to the Boston bar. Literature however proved the stronger attraction, and in 1818 he left his profession to assist in conducting the then newly founded North American Review. The critical papers he contributed to it startled the conservative literary circles by their audacity