Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12, 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.org Title: Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Author: Various Editor: Charles Dudley Warner Release Date: May 9, 2010 [EBook #32308] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net JAVANESE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. The origin of the Oceanic dialects, and of those of India beyond the Ganges, more especially the civilized idioms of the Indian Archipelago, is referred to a language which was that of an unknown people inhabiting the island of Java. From this primitive language the modern Javanese is supposed to be immediately derived. Javanese literature consists of poems, dramas, songs, and historical and religious writings. The accompanying facsimile is from a mythological-religious tract written upon a vegetable paper of native manufacture, and ornamented with grotesque drawings. JAVANESE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT.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. XII. NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Connoisseur Edition LIMITED TO FIVE HUNDRED COPIES IN HALF RUSSIA No. .......... Copyright, 1896, by R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL All rights reserved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. 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. XII LIVED PAGE DENIS DIDEROT 1713-1784 4689 From 'Rameau's Nephew' FRANZ VON DINGELSTEDT 1814-1881 4704 A Man of Business ('The Amazon') The Watchman (same) DIOGENES LAERTIUS 200-250 A. D.? 4711 Life of Socrates ('Lives and Sayings of the Philosophers') Examples of Greek Wit and Wisdom: Bias; Plato; Aristippus; Aristotle; Theophrastus; Demetrius; Antisthenes; Diogenes; Cleanthes; Pythagoras ISAAC D'ISRAELI 1766-1848 4725 Poets, Philosophers, and Artists Made by Accident ('Curiosities of Literature') Martyrdom of Charles the First ('Commentaries on the Reign of Charles the First') SYDNEY DOBELL 1824-1874 4733 Epigram on the Death of Edward Forbes How's My Boy? The Sailor's Return Afloat and Ashore The Soul ('Balder') England (same) America Amy's Song of the Willow ('Balder') AUSTIN DOBSON 1840- 4741 BY ESTHER SINGLETON On a Nankin Plate The Old Sedan-Chair Ballad of Prose and Rhyme The Curé's Progress "Good-Night, Babbette" The Ladies of St. James's Dora v e r s u s Rose Une Marquise A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth The Princess De Lamballe ('Four Frenchwomen') MARY MAPES DODGE 1840?- 4751 The Race ('Hans Brinker') JOHN DONNE 1573-1631 4771 The Undertaking A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Song Love's Growth Song FEODOR MIKHAILOVITCH DOSTOÉVSKY 1821-1881 4779 BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD From 'Poor People': Letter from Varvara Debrosyeloff to Makar Dyevushkin; Letter from Makar Dyevushkin to Varvara Alexievna Dobrosyeloff The Bible Reading ('Crime and Punishment') EDWARD DOWDEN 1843- 4806 The Humor of Shakespeare ('Shakespeare; a Critical Study of His Mind and Art') Shakespeare's Portraiture of Women ('Transcripts and Studies') The Interpretation of Literature (same) A. CONAN DOYLE 1859- 4815 The Red-Headed League ('The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes') Bowmen's Song ('The White Company') HOLGER DRACHMANN 1846- 4840 The Skipper and His Ship ('Paul and Virginia of a Northern Zone') The Prince's Song ('Once Upon a Time') JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE 1795-1820 4851 A Winter's Tale ('The Croakers') The Culprit Fay The American Flag JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER 1811-1882 4865 The Vedas and Their Theology ('The Intellectual Development of Europe') Primitive Beliefs Dismissed by Scientific Knowledge (same) The Koran (same) MICHAEL DRAYTON 1563-1631 4877 Sonnet The Ballad of Agincourt Queen Mab's Excursion ('Nymphidia, the Court of Faery') GUSTAVE DROZ 1832-1895 4885 How the Baby Was Saved ('The Seamstress's Story') A Family New-Year's ('Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé') Their Last Excursion ('Making an Omelette') HENRY DRUMMOND 1851- 4897 The Country and Its People ('Tropical Africa') The East-African Lake Country (same) White Ants (same) WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585-1649 4913 Sextain Madrigal Reason and Feeling Degeneracy of the World Briefness of Life The Universe On Death ('Cypress Grove') JOHN DRYDEN 1631-1700 4919 BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY From 'The Hind and the Panther' To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve Ode to the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne KilligrewA Song Lines Printed under Milton's Portrait Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music Achitophel ('Absalom and Achitophel') MAXIME DU CAMP 1822- 4951 Street Scene during the Commune ('The Convulsions of Paris') ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SENIOR 1802-1870 4957 BY ANDREW LANG The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches ('The Count of Monte Cristo') The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the Handkerchief of Aramis ('The Three Musketeers') Defense of the Bastion St.-Gervais (same) Consultation of the Musketeers (same) The Man in the Iron Mask ('The Viscount of Bragelonne') A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot ('The Lady of Monsoreau') ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JUNIOR 1824-1895 5001 BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY The Playwright Is Born—and Made (Preface to 'The Prodigal Father') An Armed Truce ('A Friend to the Sex') Two Views of Money ('The Money Question') M. De Remonin's Philosophy of Marriage ('L'Étrangére') Reforming a Father ('The Prodigal Father') Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson ('L'Étrangére') GEORGE DU MAURIER 1834-1896 5041 At the Heart of Bohemia ('Trilby') Christmas in the Latin Quarter (same) "Dreaming True" ('Peter Ibbetson') Barty Josselin at School ('The Martian') WILLIAM DUNBAR 1465?-1530? 5064 The Thistle and the Rose From 'The Golden Targe' No Treasure Avails Without Gladness JEAN VICTOR DURUY 1811-1894 5069 The National Policy ('History of Rome') Results of the Roman Dominion (same) FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME XII PAGE Javanese Manuscript (Colored Plate) Frontispiece The Alexandrine Manuscript (Fac-simile) xii Old Black-Letter Quarto (Fac-simile) 4726 "Charles I. Going to Execution" (Photogravure) 4730 "The Skater of the Zuyder Zee" (Photogravure) 4758 African Arabic Manuscript (Fac-simile) 4870 John Dryden (Portrait) 4920 Alexandre Dumas (Portrait) 4958 Alexandre Dumas, Fils (Portrait) 5002 VIGNETTE PORTRAITS Denis Diderot Joseph Rodman Drake Franz von Dingelstedt John William Draper Isaac D'Israeli Michael Drayton Austin Dobson Gustav Droz Mary Mapes Dodge Henry Drummond John Donne William Drummond Feodor Dostoévsky Maxime Du Camp A. Conan Doyle George du Maurier Holger Drachmann Jean Victor Duruy CODEX ALEXANDRINUS. Fifth Century. British Museum. The Alexandrine Manuscript of the Christian Scriptures is almost complete in both Testaments, the Septuagint version of the Old and the original Greek of the New. It consists of 773 sheets, 12¾ by 10¾ inches, of very thin gray goatskin vellum, written on both sides in two columns of faint but clear characters. It was made in the early part of the fifth century, under the supervision of Thecla, a noble Christian lady of Alexandria, in the fifth century. It was brought from Alexandria to Constantinople by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, who in 1624 gave it into the charge of the English Ambassador for presentation to King James I.; but owing to James' death before the presentation could be made, it was presented instead to Charles I. It remained in the possession of the English sovereigns until the Royal Library was presented to the nation by George II. in 1753. With the exception of the greater part of Matthew to Chapter xxv., two leaves of John, and three of Second Corinthians, it contains the whole Greek Bible, including the two Epistles of Clement of Rome, which in early times ranked among the inspired books. Its table of contents shows that it once included also the "Psalms of Solomon," though, from their position and title in the index, it is evident that they were regarded as standing apart from the other books. The Museum has bound the leaves of this precious manuscript in four volumes, and has had photographic copies made of each page for the use of students. The accompanying reproduction is