Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6

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

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LIBRARY OF THEWORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Connoisseur Edition
VOL. VI.
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. VI
THE ABBÉ DE BRANTÔME (Pierre de Bourdeille) -- 1527-
1614
The Dancing of Royalty ('Lives of Notable Women')The Shadow of a Tomb ('Lives of Courtly Women')
M. le Constable Anne de Montmorency
('Lives of Distinguished Men and Great Captains')
Two Famous Entertainments ('Lives of Courtly Women')
FREDRIKA BREMER -- 1801-1865
A Home-Coming ('The Neighbors')
The Landed Proprietor ('The Home')
A Family Picture (same)
CLEMENS BRENTANO -- 1778-1842
The Nurse's Watch
The Castle in Austria
ELISABETH BRENTANO (Bettina von Arnim) -- 1785-1859
Dedication: To Goethe ('Goethe's Correspondence with
a Child')
Letter to Goethe
Bettina's Last Meeting with Goethe (Letter to Her Niece)
In Goethe's Garden
JOHN BRIGHT -- 1811-1889
From Speech on the Corn Laws (1843)
From Speech on Incendiarism in Ireland (1844)
From Speech on Non-Recognition of the Southern
Confederacy (1861)
From Speech on the State of Ireland (1866)
From Speech on the Irish Established Church (1868)
BRILLAT-SAVARIN -- 1755-1826
From 'Physiology of Taste':
The Privations;
On the Love of Good Living;
On People Fond of Good Living
CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ AND HER SISTERS --1816-1855
Jane Eyre's Wedding-Day ('Jane Eyre')
Madame Beck ('Villette')
A Yorkshire Landscape ('Shirley')
The End of Heathcliff (Emily Bronté's 'Wuthering
Heights')
PHILLIPS BROOKS -- 1835-1893
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Personal Character ('Essays and Addresses')
The Courage of Opinions (same)
Literature and Life (same)
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN -- 1771-1810
Wieland's Statement ('Wieland')
JOHN BROWN -- 1810-1882
Marjorie Fleming ('Spare Hours')
Death of Thackeray (same)
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (Artemus Ward) -- 1834-1867
By Charles F. JohnsonEdwin Forrest as Othello
High-Handed Outrage at Utica
Affairs Round the Village Green
Mr. Pepper ('Artemus Ward: His Travels')
Horace Greeley's Ride to Placerville (same)
SIR THOMAS BROWNE -- 1605-1682
By Francis Bacon
From the 'Religio Medici'
From 'Christian Morals'
From 'Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial'
From 'A Fragment on Mummies'
From 'A Letter to a Friend'
Some Relations Whose Truth We Fear ('Pseudoxia
Epidemica')
WILLIAM BROWNE -- 1591-1643
Circe's Charm ('Inner Temple Masque')
The Hunted Squirrel ('Britannia's Pastorals')
As Careful Merchants Do Expecting Stand (same)
Song of the Sirens ('Inner Temple Masque')
An Epistle on Parting
Sonnets to Cælia
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL -- 1820-1872
Annus Memorabilis
Words for the 'Hallelujah Chorus'
Coming
Psychaura
Suspiria Noctis
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING -- 1809-1861
A Musical Instrument
My Heart and I
From 'Catarina to Camoens'
The Sleep
The Cry of the Children
Mother and Poet
A Court Lady
The Prospect
De Profundis
The Cry of the Human
Romance of the Swan's Nest
The Best Thing in the World
Sonnets from the Portuguese
A False Step
A Child's Thought of God
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
ROBERT BROWNING -- 1812-1889
By E.L. Burlingame
Andrea del Sarto
A Toccata of Galuppi's
Confessions
Love among the Ruins
A Grammarian's Funeral
My Last DuchessUp at a Villa--Down in the City
In Three Days
In a Year
Evelyn Hope
Prospice
The Patriot
One Word More
ORESTES AUGUSTUS BROWNSON -- 1803-1876
Saint-Simonism ('The Convert')
FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE -- 1849-
By Adolphe Cohn
Taine and Prince Napoleon
The Literatures of France, England, and Germany
GIORDANO BRUNO --1548-1600
A Discourse of Poets ('The Heroic Enthusiasts')
Canticle of the Shining Ones: A Tribute to English
Women ('The Nolan')
Song of the Nine Singers
Of Immensity
Life Well Lost
Parnassus Within
Compensation
Life for Song
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT --1794-1878
By George Parsons Lathrop
Thanatopsis
The Crowded Street
Death of the Flowers
The Conqueror's Grave
The Battle-Field
To a Water-fowl
Robert of Lincoln
June
To the Fringed Gentian
The Future Life
To the Past
JAMES BRYCE -- 1838-
Position of Women in the United States ('The American
Commonwealth')
Ascent of Ararat ('Trans-Caucasia and Ararat')
The Work of the Roman Empire ('The Holy Roman
Empire')
FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND -- 1826-1880
A Hunt in a Horse-Pond ('Curiosities of Natural History')
On Rats (same)
Snakes and their Poison (same)
My Monkey Jacko (same)
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE -- 1821-1862
Moral versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress
('History of Civilization in England')Mythical Origin of History (same)
GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC BUFFON -- 1707-1788
By Spencer Trotter
Nature ('Natural History')
The Humming-Bird (same)
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON -- 1803-1873
By Julian Hawthorne
The Amphitheatre ('The Last Days of Pompeii')
Kenelm and Lily ('Kenelm Chillingly')
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME VI
"Les Satyres" (Colored Plate) Frontispiece
Charlotte Bronté (Portrait) 2382
Phillips Brooks (Portrait) 2418
"The Holy Child of Bethlehem" (Photogravure) 2420
"Circe" (Photogravure) 2514
Robert Browning (Portrait) 2558
William Cullen Bryant (Portrait) 2624
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Portrait) 2698
"In the Arena" (Photogravure) 2718
"Nydia" (Photogravure) 2720
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Abbé de Brantôme
Fredrika Bremer
Elisabeth Brentano
John Bright
Brillat-Savarin
Charles Brockden Brown
John Brown
Charles Farrar Browne
Sir Thomas Browne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Orestes Augustus Brownson
Ferdinand Brunetière
James Bryce
George Louis le Clere BuffonTHE ABBÉ DE BRANTÔME (PIERRE DE
BOURDEILLE)
(1527-1614)
very historian of the Valois period is indebted to Brantôme for preserving the
atmosphere and detail of the brilliant life in which he moved as a dashing
courtier, a military adventurer, and a gallant gentleman of high degree. He was
not a professional scribe, nor a student; but he took notes unconsciously, and in
the evening of his life turned back the pages of his memory to record the
scenes through which he had passed and the characters which he had known.
He has been termed the "valet de chambre" of history; nevertheless the
anecdotes scattered through his works will ever be treasured by all students
and historians of that age of luxury and magnificence, art and beauty, beneath
which lay the fermentation of great religious and political movements,
culminating in the struggle between the Huguenots and Catholics.
Brantôme was the third son of the Vicomte de Bourdeille, a
Périgord nobleman, whose family had lived long in Guienne, and
whose aristocratic lineage was lost in myth. Upo