Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5

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. V.
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. V.
OTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK -- 1815-
By Munroe Smith
Letters-- To Fran von Arnim
To His Wife: Aug. 7, 1851; June 6, 1859; June 8,
1859; June 28, 1859; July 26, 1859
To Oscar von Arnim
To His Wife: Aug. 4, 1862; July 9, 1866; Sept. 3,
1870; June 23, 1852
Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort
Diet
From a Speech on the Military Bill
BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON -- 1832-
By William Morton Payne
Over the Lofty Mountains ('Arne')
The Cloister in the South ('Arnljot Gelline')
The Plea of King Magnus ('Sigurd Slembe')
Sin and Death (same)
The Princess
Sigurd Slembe's Return
How the Mountain Was Clad ('Arne')
The Father
WILLIAM BLACK -- 1841-
The End of Macleod of Dare
Sheila in London ('A Princess of Thule')RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE -- 1825-
A Desperate Venture ('Lorna Doone')
A Wedding and a Revenge (same)
Landing the Trout ('Alice Lorraine')
A Dane in the Dike ('Mary Anerley')
WILLIAM BLAKE -- 1757-1827
Song
Song
The Two Songs
Night
The Piper and the Child
Holy Thursday
Cradle Song
The Little Black Boy
The Tiger
CHARLES BLANC -- 1813-1882
Rembrandt ('The Dutch School of Painters')
Albert Dürer's 'Melancholia' (same)
Ingres ('Life of Ingres')
Calamatta's Studio ('Contemporary Artists')
Blanc's Début as Art Critic (same)
Delacroix's 'Bark of Dante' (same)
Genesis of the 'Grammar'
Moral Influence of Art ('Grammar of Painting and
Engraving')
Poussin's 'Shepherds of Arcadia' (same)
Landscape (same)
Style (same)
Law of Proportion in Architecture (same)
STEEN STEENSEN BLICHER -- 1782-1848
A Picture
The Knitting-Room
The Hosier
MATHILDE BLIND -- 1847-1896
From 'Love in Exile'
Seeking
Songs of Summer
A Parable
Love's Somnambulist
The Mystic's Vision
From 'Tarantella'
O Moon, Large Golden Summer Moon
Green Leaves and Sere
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO -- 1313-1375
By W.J. Stillman
Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon
The Jew Converted to Christianity by Going to RomeThe Story of Saladin and the Jew Usurer
The Story of Griselda
FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT -- 1819-1892
Two
Wine
Song
Unchanging
The Poetry of Mirza-Schaffy ('Thousand and One Days
in the East')
Mirza-Schaffy (same)
The School of Wisdom (same)
An Excursion into Armenia (same)
Mirza-Jussuf
Wisdom and Knowledge
JOHANN JAKOB BODMER -- 1698-1783
Kinship of the Arts ('Rubens')
Poetry and Painting ('Holbein')
Tribute to Tobacco ('Dürer')
BOËTIUS -- 475-525
Of the Greatest Good ('Consolations of Philosophy')
NICHOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX -- 1636-1711
Advice to Authors ('The Art of Poetry')
The Pastoral, the Elegy, the Ode, and the Epigram
(same)
To Molière ('The Satires')
GASTON BOISSIER -- 1823-2152
Madame de Sévigné as a Letter-Writer ('Life of Madame
de Sévigné')
French Society in the Seventeenth Century (same)
How Horace Lived at his Country-House ('The Country
of Horace and Virgil')
GEORGE H. BOKER -- 1823-1890
The Black Regiment
The Sword-Bearer
Sonnets
SAINT BONAVENTURA -- 1221-1274
By Thomas Davidson
On the Beholding of God in His Footsteps in This
Sensible World
GEORGE BORROW -- 1803-1881
By Julian Hawthorne
At the Horse-Fair ('Lavengro')A Meeting ('The Bible in Spain')
JUAN BOSCAN -- 1493-?1540
On the Death of Garcilaso
A Picture of Domestic Happiness ('Epistle to Mendoza')
JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET -- 1627-1704
By Adolphe Cohn
From the Sermon upon 'The Unity of the Church'
Opening of the Funeral Oration on Henrietta of France
From the 'Discourse upon Universal History'
Public Spirit in Rome
JAMES BOSWELL -- 1740-1795
By Charles F. Johnson
An Account of Corsica
A Tour to Corsica
The Life of Samuel Johnson
PAUL BOURGET -- 1852-
The American Family ('Outre-Mer')
The Aristocratic Vision of M. Renan ('Study of M.
Renan')
SIR JOHN BOWRING -- 1792-1872
The Cross of Christ
Watchman! What of the Night?
Hymn
From Luis de Gongora: Not All Nightingales
From John Kollar: Sonnet
From Bogdanovich (Old Russian): Song
From Bobrov: The Golden Palace
From Dmitriev: The Dove and The Stranger
From Sarbiewski: Sapphics to A Rose
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN -- 1848-1895
A Norwegian Dance ('Gunnar')
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON -- 1837-
Advent of the Hirelings ('The Christmas Hirelings')
"How Bright She Was--" etc. ('Mohawks')
GEORG BRANDES -- 1842-
By William Morton Payne
Björnson ('Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century')
The Historical Movement in Modern Literature ('Main
Currents in the Literature of the Nineteenth
Century')
SEBASTIAN BRANDT -- 1458-1521The Universal Shyp
Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Maysters
Of To[o] Moche Spekynge or Bablynge
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME V
Saint Dunstan (Colored Plate) Frontispiece
Bismarck (Portrait) 1930
"The Surrender at Sedan" (Photogravure) 1944
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Portrait) 2012
"Rembrandt and His Wife" (Photogravure) 2055
Giovanni Boccaccio (Portrait) 2090
"The Decameron" (Photogravure) 2108
"Fatima" (Photogravure) 2120
"Domestic Happiness" (Photogravure) 2206
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Björnstjerne Björnson
William Black
William Blake
Mathilde Blind
Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Boëtius
Nicholas Boileau-Despréaux
Gaston Boissier
George H. Boker
George Borrow
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
James Boswell
Paul Bourget
Sir John Bowring
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Georg Brandes
Sebastian BrandtOTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK
(1815-)
BY MUNROE SMITH
tto Edward Leopold, fourth child of Charles and Wilhelmina von Bismarck, was
born at Schönhausen in Prussia, April 1, 1815. The family was one of the
oldest in the "Old Mark" (now a part of the province of Saxony), and not a few of
its members had held important military or diplomatic positions under the
Prussian crown. The young Otto passed his school years in Berlin, and
pursued university studies in law (1832-5) at Göttingen and at Berlin. At
Göttingen he was rarely seen at lectures, but was a prominent figure in the
social life of the student body: the old university town is full of traditions of his
prowess in duels and drinking bouts, and of his difficulties with the authorities.
In 1835 he passed the State examination in law, and was occupied for three
years, first in the judicial and then in the administrative service of the State, at
Berlin, Aix-la-Chapelle, and Potsdam. In 1838 he left the governmental service
and studied agriculture at the Eldena Ac