Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4

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

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LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORSConnoisseur Edition
VOL. IV.
1896
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. IV.
GEORGE BANCROFT--Continued: -- 1800-1891
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham ('History of the United
States')
Lexington (same)
Washington (same)
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM -- 1798-1874
The Publican's Dream ('The Bit of Writin'')
Ailleen
Soggarth Aroon
Irish Maiden's Song
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE -- 1823--1891
Le Café ('The Soul of Paris')
The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests ('The Caryatids':
Lang's Translation)
Aux Enfants Perdus: Lang's Translation
Ballade des Pendus: Lang's Translation
ANNA LÆITIA BARBAULD -- 1743-1825
Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations
A Dialogue of the Dead
Life
Praise to God
ALEXANDER BARCLAY -- 1475-1552
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM -- 1788-1845As I Laye A-Thynkynge
The Lay of St. Cuthbert
A Lay of St. Nicholas
SABINE BARING-GOULD -- 1834-
St. Patrick's Purgatory ('Curious Myths of the Middle Ages')
The Cornish Wreckers ('The Vicar of Morwenstow')
JANE BARLOW -- 18--
Widow Joyce's Cloak ('Strangers at Lisconnel')
Walled Out ('Bogland Studies')
JOEL BARLOW -- 1754-1812
A Feast ('Hasty Pudding')
WILLIAM BARNES -- 1800-1886
Blackmwore Maidens
May
Milken Time
Jessie Lee
The Turnstile
To the Water-Crowfoot
Zummer an' Winter
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE -- 1860-
The Courtin' of T'nowhead's Bell ('Auld Licht Idylls')
Jess Left Alone ('A Window in Thrums')
After the Sermon ('The Little Minister')
The Mutual Discovery (same)
Lost Illusions ('Sentimental Tommy')
Sins of Circumstance (same)
FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT -- 1801-1850
Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light
Stulta and Puera
Inapplicable Terms ('Economic Sophisms')
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (by Grace King) -- 1821-1867
Meditation
Death of the Poor
Music
The Broken Bell
The Enemy
Beauty
Death
The Painter of Modern Life ('L'Art Romantique')
Modernness
From 'Little Poems in Prose': Every One His Own Chimera;
Humanity; Windows; Drink
From a Journal
LORD BEACONSFIELD (by Isa Carrington Cabell) -- 1804-
1881
A Day at Ems ('Vivian Grey')
The Festa in the Alhambra ('The Young Duke')
Squibs from 'The Young Duke': Charles Annesley; The
Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female BeautyLothair in Palestine ('Lothair')
BEAUMARCHAIS -- 1732-1799
Outwitting a Guardian ('The Barber of Seville')
Outwitting a Husband ('The Marriage of Figaro')
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER -- 1584-1625
The Faithful Shepherdess
Song
Song
Aspatia's Song
Leandro's Song
True Beauty
Ode to Melancholy
To Ben Jonson, on His 'Fox'
On the Tombs in Westminster
Arethusa's Declaration ('Philaster')
The Story of Bellario (same)
Evadne's Confession ('The Maid's Tragedy')
Death of the Boy Hengo ('Bonduca')
From 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'
WILLIAM BECKFORD -- 1759-1844
The Incantation and the Sacrifice ('Vathek')
Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis (same)
HENRY WARD BEECHER -- 1813-1887
Book-Stores and Books ('Star Papers')
Selected Paragraphs
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel
A New England Sunday ('Norwood')
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (by Irenæus Stevenson) -- 1770-
1827
Letters: To Dr. Wegeler ; To the Same; To Bettina
Brentano;
To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi ; To the Same; To His
Brothers;
To the Royal and Imperial High Court of Appeal ; To
Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall ; To the Same; To His Brother Johann; To
Stephan v. Breuning
CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) -- 1740-1795
To Ulla
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl
Amaryllis
Art and Politics
Drink Out Thy Glass
JEREMY BENTHAM -- 1748-1832
Of the Principle of Utility ('An Introduction to the Principles
of Morals snd Legislation')
Reminiscences of Childhood
Letter to George Wilson (1781)
Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) -- 1780-
1857
From 'The Gipsies'
The Gad-Fly
Draw It Mild
The King of Yvetot
Fortune
The People's Reminiscences
The Old Tramp
Fifty Years
The Garret
My Tomb
From His Preface to His Collected Poems
GEORGE BERKELEY -- 1685-1753
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
Essay on Tar-Water ('Siris')
HECTOR BERLIOZ -- 1803-1869
The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors
('Autobiography')
The Famous "K Snuff-Box Treachery" (same)
On Gluck (same)
On Bach (same)
Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
Beginning of a "Grand Passion" (same)
On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX -- 1091-1153
Saint Bernard's Hymn
Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St.
Thierry)
From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime) -- Twelfth
Century
Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
JULIANA BERNERS -- Fifteenth Century
The Treatyse of Fyssbynge with an Angle
WALTER BESANT -- 1838-
Old-Time London ('London')
The Synagogue ('The Rebel Queen')
BESTIARIES AND LAPIDARIES (by L. Oscar Kuhns)
The Lion
The Pelican
The Eagle
The Phoenix
The Ant
The Siren
The Whale
The Crocodile
The Turtle-Dove
The Mandragora
SapphireCoral
MARIE-HENRI BEYLE (Stendhal) (by Frederic Taber Cooper) -
- 1783-1842
Princess Sanseverina's Interview ('Chartreuse de Parme')
Clélia Aids Fabrice to Escape (same)
WlLLEM BlLDERDIJK -- 1756-1831
Ode to Beauty
From the 'Ode to Napoleon'
Slighted Love
The Village Schoolmaster ('Country Life')
BION -- Second Century B.C.
Threnody
Hesper
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL -- 1850-
Dr. Johnson ('Obiter Dicta')
The Office of Literature (same)
Truth-Hunting (same)
Benvenuto Cellini (same)
On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning's Poetry (same)
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME IV.
Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Colored Plate) Frontispiece
"The Irish Maiden's Song" (Photogravure) 1473
"Milking Time" (Photogravure) 1567
"Music" (Photogravure) 1625
Henry Ward Beecher (Portrait) 1714
"Beethoven" (Photogravure) 1750
Jean-Pierre de Béranger (Portrait) 1784
"Monastic Luxury" (Photogravure) 1824
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
John Banim
Théodore de Banville
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Richard Harris Barham
Jane Barlow
Joel Barlow
James Matthew BarrieFrédéric Bastiat
Charles Baudelaire
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont
William Beckford
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeremy Bentham
George Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Juliana Berners
Walter Besant
Henri Beyle (Stendhal)
Augustine Birrell
GEORGE BANCROFT (Continued from Volume