Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern

About this eBook

Editor

Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Literature -- Collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

12788

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12788

Release Date

June 30, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIBRARY OF THE — WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE — ANCIENT AND MODERN
3. 3.CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — EDITOR — HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER — ASSOCIATE EDITORS — Connoisseur Edition — VOL. II.
4. 4.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. II.
6. 6.VOLUME II. — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
7. 7.HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL--(Continued from Volume I)
8. 8.ANACREON — (B.C. 562?-477)
9. 9.HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN — (1805-1875) — BY BENJAMIN W. WELLS
10. 10.THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER
11. 11.THE TEAPOT
12. 12.THE UGLY DUCKLING — I--THE DUCKLING IS BORN — II--HOW THE DUCKLING WAS TREATED AT HOME — III--OUT ON THE MOOR — IV--IN THE PEASANT'S HUT — V--WHAT BECAME OF THE DUCKLING
13. 13.WHAT THE MOON SAW
14. 14.THE LOVERS
15. 15.THE SNOW QUEEN — FOURTH STORY--THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS
16. 16.THE NIGHTINGALE — I--THE REAL NIGHTINGALE — II--THE TOY NIGHTINGALE — III--THE REAL NIGHTINGALE AGAIN
17. 17.THE MARKET PLACE AT ODENSE (1836)
18. 18.THE ANDERSEN JUBILEE AT ODENSE
19. 19.'MISERERE' IN THE SIXTINE CHAPEL
20. 20.ANEURIN — (Sixth Century A.D.)
21. 21.THE SLAYING OF OWAIN
22. 22.ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE — BY ROBERT SHARP
23. 23.FROM 'BEOWULF'
24. 24.CAEDMON'S INSPIRATION
25. 25.FROM THE 'CHRONICLE'
26. 26.GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO — (1864-)
27. 27.THE DROWNED BOY
28. 28.ANTAR — (About 550-615) — BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN
29. 29.THE VALOR OF ANTAR
30. 30.LUCIUS APULEIUS — (Second Century A. D.)
31. 31.THE TALE OF ARISTOMENES, THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER
32. 32.THE AWAKENING OF CUPID
33. 33.THOMAS AQUINAS — (1226-1274) — BY EDWIN A. PACE
34. 34.ON THE VALUE OF OUR CONCEPTS OF THE DEITY
35. 35.HOW CAN THE ABSOLUTE BE A CAUSE?
36. 36.ON THE PRODUCTION OF LIVING THINGS
37. 37.THE ARABIAN NIGHTS — BY RICHARD GOTTHEIL
38. 38.FROM 'THE STORY OF THE CITY OF BRASS'
39. 39.FROM 'THE HISTORY OF KING OMAR BEN ENNUMAN, AND HIS SONS SHERKAN AND ZOULMEKAN'
40. 40.FROM 'SINDBAD THE SEAMAN AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN'
41. 41.FIRST VOYAGE OF SINDBAD HIGHT THE SEAMAN. — NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH NIGHT, — NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTIETH NIGHT, — NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST NIGHT, — NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND NIGHT,
42. 42.CONCLUSION OF THE 'THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT'
43. 43.ARABIC LITERATURE — BY RICHARD GOTTHEIL
44. 44.FROM THE QU'RAN — CHAPTER XXXV.: INTITLED "THE CREATOR." REVEALED AT MECCA — CHAPTER LV.: INTITLED "THE MERCIFUL." REVEALED AT MECCA — CHAPTER LXXXIV.: INTITLED " THE RENDING IN SUNDER." REVEALED AT MECCA
45. 45.THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS
46. 46.DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS ARAGO — (1786-1853) — BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN
47. 47.LAPLACE
48. 48.JOHN ARBUTHNOT — (1667-1735) — THE TRUE CHARACTERS OF JOHN BULL, NIC. FROG, AND HOCUS — HOW THE RELATIONS RECONCILED JOHN AND HIS SISTER PEG, AND WHAT RETURN PEG MADE TO JOHN'S MESSAGE
49. 49.OF THE RUDIMENTS OF MARTIN'S LEARNING
50. 50.THE ARGONAUTIC LEGEND
51. 51.LUDOVICO ARIOSTO — (1474-1533) — BY L. OSCAR KUHNS
52. 52.ARISTOPHANES — (B.C. 448-380?) — BY PAUL SHOREY
53. 53.ARISTOTLE — (B.C. 384-322) — BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
54. 54.THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
55. 55.ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND POETRY, AND HOW HISTORICAL MATTER SHOULD BE USED IN POETRY
56. 56.ON PHILOSOPHY
57. 57.ON ESSENCES
58. 58.ON COMMUNITY OF STUDIES
59. 59.JÓN ARNASON — (1819-1888)
60. 60.All the stories are from ' Icelandic Legends': Translation of Powell and Magnusson.
61. 61.THE MERMAN
62. 62.THE FISHERMAN OF GÖTUR
63. 63.THE MAGIC SCYTHE
64. 64.THE MAN-SERVANT AND THE WATER-ELVES
65. 65.THE CROSSWAYS
66. 66.ERNST MORITZ ARNDT — (1769-1860)
67. 67.EDWIN ARNOLD — (1832-)
68. 68.MATTHEW ARNOLD — (1822-1888) — BY GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
69. 69.INTELLIGENCE AND GENIUS
70. 70.SWEETNESS AND LIGHT
71. 71.OXFORD
72. 72.THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS — (Eighth to Twelfth Centuries) — BY RICHARD JONES
73. 73.FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH'S 'HISTORIA BRITONUM' — ARTHUR SUCCEEDS UTHER, HIS FATHER, IN THE KINGDOM OF BRITAIN, AND BESIEGES COLGRIN — DUBRICIUS'S SPEECH AGAINST THE TREACHEROUS SAXONS, OF WHOM ARTHUR SLAYS MANY IN BATTLE — ARTHUR INCREASES HIS DOMINIONS — ARTHUR HOLDS A SOLEMN FESTIVAL — AFTER A VARIETY OF SPORTS AT THE CORONATION, ARTHUR AMPLY REWARDS HIS SERVANTS — ARTHUR COMMITS TO HIS NEPHEW MODRED THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITAIN, AND ENGAGES IN A WAR WITH ROME
74. 74.THE HOLY GRAIL
75. 75.PETER CHRISTEN ASBJÖRNSEN — (1812-1885)
76. 76.GUDBRAND OF THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE
77. 77.THE WIDOW'S SON
78. 78.ROGER ASCHAM — (1515-1568)
79. 79.ON GENTLENESS IN EDUCATION
80. 80.ON STUDY AND EXERCISE
81. 81.ATHENÆUS — (Third Century A.D.)
82. 82.WHY THE NILE OVERFLOWS
83. 83.HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH
84. 84.AN ACCOUNT OF SOME GREAT EATERS
85. 85.THE LOVE OF ANIMALS FOR MAN
86. 86.PER DANIEL AMADEUS ATTERBOM — (1790-1855)
87. 87.THE GENIUS OF THE NORTH
88. 88.AUCASSIN AND NICOLLETE — (Twelfth Century) — BY FREDERICK MORRIS WARREN
89. 89.IMPRISONMENT OF NICOLETTE
90. 90.AUCASSIN AND THE VISCOUNT — AUCASSIN CAPTURES COUNT BOUGART — THE LOVERS' MEETING — AUCASSIN, SEEKING NICOLETTE, COMES UPON A COWHERD — AUCASSIN FINDS NICOLETTE'S LODGE — NICOLETTE SAILS TO CARTHAGE
91. 91.JOHN JAMES AUDUBON — (1780-1851)
92. 92.A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE
93. 93.BERTHOLD AUERBACH — (1812-1882)
94. 94.THE FIRST MASS
95. 95.THE PEASANT-NURSE AND THE PRINCE — End of Volume II

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