Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Library of the World's Best Literature,Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15Author: VariousEditor: Charles Dudley WarnerRelease Date: June 29, 2010 [EBook #33027]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, VOL 15 ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netHOW KRIEMHILD IS LED TO ETZEL.From the Hundeshagen Nibelungen manuscripts of the 10th century, in the Royal Library at Berlin."Let the messenger ride and thus we makeKnown to you how the queen rode the country."Kriemhild is the legendary heroine of the "Nibelungenlied," and the rival of Brunhild. She was the wife ofSiegfried who was slain by her brothers. Later, as the wife of Etzel (Attila) King of the Huns, she avenged themurder of Siegfried by compassing the death of her brothers, but was herself slain.HOW KRIEMHILD IS LED TO ETZEL.LIBRARY OF THEWORLD'S BEST LITERATUREANCIENT AND MODERNCHARLES DUDLEY WARNEREDITORHAMILTON WRIGHT MABIELUCIA GILBERT RUNKLEGEORGE HENRY WARNERASSOCIATE EDITORSConnoisseur EditionVol. XV.NEW YORKTHE INTERNATIONAL ...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Library of the World's
Best Literature,
Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15, 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, Vol. 15
Author: Various
Editor: Charles Dudley Warner
Release Date: June 29, 2010 [EBook #33027]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, VOL 15 ***
Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the OnlineProduced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online
Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
HOW KRIEMHILD IS LED TO ETZEL.
From the Hundeshagen Nibelungen manuscripts of the
10th century, in the Royal Library at Berlin.
"Let the messenger ride and thus we make
Known to you how the queen rode the country."
Kriemhild is the legendary heroine of the
"Nibelungenlied," and the rival of Brunhild. She was
the wife of Siegfried who was slain by her brothers.
Later, as the wife of Etzel (Attila) King of the Huns,
she avenged the murder of Siegfried by compassing
the death of her brothers, but was herself slain.
HOW KRIEMHILD IS LED TO ETZEL.
LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNEREDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Connoisseur Edition
Vol. XV.
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, andProfessor 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. XV
P
A
LIVED
G
E
58
Folk-Song
53
BY F. B. GUMMERE

58
Samuel Foote 1720-1777
78
How to be a Lawyer ('The Lame Lover') A Misfortune in Orthography (same)
From the 'Memoirs':
A Cure for Bad Poetry;
The Retort Courteous;
On Garrick's Stature;
Cape Wine;
The Graces;
The Debtor;
Affectation;
Arithmetical Criticism;
The Dear Wife;
Garrick and the Guinea;
Dr. Paul Hifferman;
Foote and Macklin;
Baron Newman;
Mrs. Abington;
Garlic-Eaters;
Mode of Burying Attorneys in London;
Dining Badly;
Dibble Davis;
An Extraordinary Case;
Mutability of the World;
An Appropriate Motto;
Real Friendship; Anecdote of an Author;
Dr. Blair;
Advice to a Dramatic Writer;
The Grafton Ministry

58
John Ford 1586-?
89
From 'Perkin Warbeck'
Penthea's Dying Song ('The Broken Heart')
From 'The Lover's Melancholy': Amethus and Me

naphon

58
Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué 1777-1843
95
The Marriage of Undine ('Undine')
The Last Appearance of Undine (same)
Song from 'Minstrel Lore'

59
Anatole France 1844-
09
In the Gardens ('The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'

)
Child-Life ('The Book of my Friend')
From the 'Garden of Epicurus'

5959
St. Francis d'Assisi 1182-1226
19
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
Order
The Canticle of the Sun

59
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
25
BY JOHN BIGELOW
Of Franklin's Family and Early Life ('Autobiograph

y')
Franklin's Journey to Philadelphia: His Arrival The

re (same)
Franklin as a Printer (same)
Rules of Health ('Poor Richard's Almanack')
The Way to Wealth (same)
Speech in the Federal Convention, in Favor of Op

ening Its Sessions with Prayer
On War
Revenge: Letter to Madame Helvétius
The Ephemera: an Emblem of Human Life
A Prophecy (Letter to Lord Kames)
Early Marriages (Letter to John Alleyne)
The Art of Virtue ('Autobiography')

5959
Louis Honoré Fréchette 1839-
64
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
Our History ('Le Légende d'un Peuple')
Caughnawaga
Louisiana ('Les Feuilles Volantes')
The Dream of Life (same)

59
Harold Frederic 1856-?
71
The Last Rite ('The Damnation of Theron Ware')

59
Edward Augustus Freeman 1823-1892
77
c BY JOHN BACH M MASTER
The Altered Aspects of Rome ('Historical Essays')
The Continuity of English History (same)
Race and Language (same)
The Norman Council and the Assembly of Lillebon
ne ('The History of the Norman Conquest of Engl
and')

60
Ferdinand Freiligrath 1810-1876
02
The Emigrants
The Lion's Ride